Scaling Out: Thinking About Sustainability, Food and Fashion
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, Jennifer Smith Maguire, considers the outgrowths of a recent School based workshop Several years ago I bought a schizostylis coccinea ‘Jennifer’ plant. I was attracted by the promise of autumn colour, and — embarrassing to admit — the cultivar’s name. I hadn’t anticipated the astounding […]
Anarchy in the UK (‘s Most Famous Fortress)
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, outlines the first output of a new collaborative research project on the history of labour organisations in the British Empire. In an article just published in Labor History, Jo Grady, Gareth Stockey and I examine the history of anarchism in Gibraltar and its surrounding […]
Inequality causes Corruption…or is it the other way around?
Senior Lecturer in Public Financial Management at the School, Andy Wynne, briefly surveys one of today’s most pressing debates Last December, in Paris, attendees at an OECD donor symposium entitled Anti-Corruption Development Assistance: Good Practices among Providers of Development Cooperation debated the causes and consequences of corruption for two full days. But poverty or inequality […]
Conference World and the Avoidance of Thought
Having just returned from another major international conference, Professor Martin Parker is coming to suspect that they’re rarely worth the fuss At the beginning of August, what must surely be the largest social science conference on the planet met in the glassy towers of Vancouver, Canada. Over ten thousand delegates occupied a convention centre as […]
Contemporary Labour Reform: Where “Pay Rise” Equals diminished household income and “Progressive’s” anything but
Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, Jo Grady, looks behind The Welfare Reform and Work Bill’s upbeat rhetoric to reveal the downplayed reality “Britain deserves a pay rise and Britain is getting a pay rise” By discontinuing a series of Tax Credits and by replacing the current National Minimum Wage (£6.50 […]
Celebrating Austerity
Iain Duncan Smith MP was in uncharacteristically exuberant mood during last week’s Budget speech. Daniela Rudloff, Lecturer at the School and Director of Undergraduate Studies, was not. While the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was presenting the first conservative budget for eighteen years, many would have been reacting as I was: with a growing […]
Tour du dopage: How do doping cyclists legitimate their cheating?
With the Tour de France about to get under way, Charlotte Smith, Lecturer in Management at the School, considers the tension between sporting success and good sportsmanship Whether your interests are in sport or in anything but sport, the Lance Armstrong case cannot have escaped your attention. Last year, when Oprah Winfrey interviewed him, he […]
Nigerian Judiciary Workers and the Pursuit of Good Governance
Senior Lecturer in Public Financial Management at the School, Andrew Wynne, considers the explicitly contested – and implicitly concealed – issue of good governance in Nigeria There have been numerous calls for a more independent judiciary within Nigeria. While the constitution allows for such autonomy, Nigeria’s judiciary has been notoriously susceptible to external pressure, particularly […]
The Plight of the Mandatory Volunteer Worker
Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, Vanessa Beck, considers the economic implications of the legal expectations placed on the contemporary unemployed The social security and support infrastructure provided to unemployed individuals in the UK has weakened substantially. To seek state aid today is, as one commentator recently put it, to travel within a ‘perfect […]
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