Graeme Tiffany is an independent education consultant. As a part-time PhD student in the philosophy of education, he is researching the role of data systems and their effect on the practice of educators and implications for democracy. Graham is also a Community Philosopher pioneer. […]
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Mark Birkin
Mark Birkin is Professor of Spatial Analysis and Policy and Director of the Consumer Data Research Centre, University of Leeds. He is currently leading the university’s ESRC research project into Big Data. He edits the journal Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. His major interests are in simulating social and demographic change within cities and regions, and in understanding the impact of these changes on the […]
Katy Wright
Katy Wright is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, exploring theories of community resilience through qualitative empirical work in South Wales, involving the development of an alternative approach to understanding resilience. She previously worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield and at the UNESCO Centre, University of Ulster (Coleraine) and for several years outside of academia in public, […]
David Chandler
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations and Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster. He is author numerous books, including Resilience: The Governance of Complexity (Routledge, 2014), Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations (Zed Books, 2013), and Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global politics, Power and Resistance (Pluto 2009), and From Kosovo […]
Richard Bridge
After working in the private sector as Finance Director of a medium-sized company in South Leeds for 17 years, Richard switched career. He has since worked as an outreach adviser for a number of Citizens Advice Bureaux (including Chapeltown, Leeds) since 2006 and currently supervises the Children’s Centre advice project in Leeds for Better Leeds Communities. Richard recently graduated in Social Policy from the University […]
Anne Danks
Anne Danks was born and raised in Scotland, where she studied French and German at St. Andrews’ University. Having begun her career teaching in some challenging secondary schools, she now pursues a passion for social justice through her work with The Trussell Trust, particularly through helping communities set up and develop sustainable foodbank projects. She is also part way through an M.A. in Justice, providing […]
Dave Clements
Dave Clements is an adviser to local government with over two decades experience writing policy and strategy, and leading community engagement initiatives, amongst other things – predominantly for children’s and adult’s services, and across public and voluntary sector partnerships. He is also contributing co-editor of The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (Pluto, 2008), author of the thinkpiece Social Care for Free Citizens (Manifesto Club, 2010). An […]
James Heartfield
James Heartfield is a writer, journalist and lecturer. He is author of numerous books, including The European Union and the End of Politics (Zed Books, 2013), Unpatriotic History of the Second World War (Zed Books, 2012), Green Capitalism: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance (Mute, 2008), and The ‘Death of the Subject’ Explained (Sheffield Hallam University, 2006). James is also a director of the […]
Ashley Frawley
Ashley Frawley is a senior lecturer in sociology & social policy at Swansea University. Ashley lectures in the sociology of health, mental health and illness, social problems, social movements, and in the economics of social policy. Her research explores the rising importance attributed emotions and behaviour in an era of ‘no alternative’ to capitalism. She is particularly interested in ‘vulnerable’ constructions of human subjects in […]
Helene Guldberg
After working as a primary-school teacher, Helene Guldberg obtained a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Manchester. She currently teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in developmental psychology and psychology with the Open University and the US study abroad centre, CAPA. Helene is author of Reclaiming Childhood: Freedom and Play in an Age of Fear (Routledge, 2009) and Just Another Ape? (Societas, 2010). […]