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 […]
Raising a Glass to the English Wine Industry: Why we will be cracking open the English Fizz this Christmas
Senior Lecturers in Organisation Studies, Sarah Robinson and Elke Weik, get us in the seasonal spirit: Cheers! We are both wine lovers and organisational researchers, curious about the factors underpinning the growing success of English wine. How, we are interested in finding out, in the short space of 40 years, has this industry developed from […]
What the Hong Kong Occupation has Already Achieved
Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, overviews some provisional findings from the research she has been doing into the ongoing protest While ‘Occupy Central’ has become the umbrella term applied to Hong Kong’s ongoing mobilisations, three less heeded groups are also playing very active roles within it. Scholarism, founded by Joshua […]
How to Sell Success, Failure and Fanaticism? Understand the Customer!
Georgios Patsiaouras, Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption at the School, draws sobering lessons from the popularity of the recent Hollywood Blockbuster, The Wolf of Wall Street. Martin Scorsese’s latest film is an adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s memoir of the same name. Critics have lamented the film’s unachieved goal of thematically and stylistically suffusing the fast […]
Thoresby Colliery and the Art of Minecraft
James Fitchett, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research at the School, traces the historical evolution of socio-economic illness in a Midlands city UK Coal recently announced the closure of the last remaining coal mines in Britain. The proposal will see the pits face a phased shutdown, with UK Coal’s six surface mines being sold off […]
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