Stephen Dunne
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Stephen Dunne, Lecturer in Social Theory and Consumption and the School, considers the strange role played by mottos in the marketing of Higher Education When the University of Leicester recently changed its corporate logo, the decision was made to omit its inaugural motto from the crest’s imagery. And so a few Latin words, themselves […]
Has Claudio Ranieiri out-foxed his rivals?
How much credit for almost a season of performances, which even the most foolhardy of supporters could not have dreamed of, can be meaningfully attributed to good management? We ask the experts: management academics! A year ago things were looking pretty ominous for Leicester City Football Club. Having easily won promotion to the top […]
The Limits of Neoliberalism: An Interview with Will Davies*
Stephen Dunne (henceforth SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book, what you were trying to do and in relation to what body of work? WD: The main question I had, following on from my PhD, concerned competition and competitiveness as forms of justification, or as sources of […]
Should Social Scientific Debate occur outside Academic Journals?
Lecturer in Social Theory and Consumption at the School, Stephen Dunne, attempts to renew a recent academic argument through a more accessible medium Social scientists engage in debates which matter to people other than themselves. Very often, however, those potentially publicly meaningful debates preside within academic journals which regularly assume a lot of terminological familiarity and disposable […]
The Nature and Purpose of the Corporation – A Round table Discussion
The School’s Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE) celebrated its 10 year anniversary towards the end of last year by hosting a 3 day conference. One of the highlights of the events was a round table discussion on the Nature and Purpose of the Corporation, a video-recording of which is available to watch here. […]
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