Congratulations to Jennifer Fleetwood, Michael Guggenheim and Michaela Benson whose work has been recognised in the Goldsmiths’ Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Awards. The criteria for the awards consider mutual benefit, innovation, quality and sustainability. Jennifer Fleetwood – Supporting Anti-death Penalty Activism – Special Award for Impact within the Established Researcher category. Jennifer is a long-term … Continue reading Public Engagement Awards!
“London is deeply uncivilised now and public space has become uncouth. There has been a universal outbreak of incivility.” Boris Johnson, Shadow (When Education Secretary, before becoming the Mayor of London, and later Prime Minister.) From blogs, through tabloids to broadsheet op-eds, popular discourse about cities has long been strewn with treatise bemoaning the rudeness … Continue reading Sick Cities, Ill Manners by Alex Rhys-Taylor — Streetsigns
An article in Ethiopias ‘The Reporter‘ cites Professor Caroline Knowles. “The British academic, Caroline Knowles, describes it as the “redistribution centre which indexes the differences between people’s life-journeys, refracted through material cultures at their point of disposal.” Continue reading Deadly Trash
How we live with difference is the key issue of our time. Issues relating to race and ethnicity, whether immigration, Islamophobia, #blacklivesmatter, or media diversity, are at the forefront of public debate. Listen to Dr Brett St Louis explore social justice and find out more about our new MA in Race, Media & Social Justice. Continue reading Exploring Social Justice
‘With the start of the exit negotiations looming in early 2017, I still reject the notion that those who voted remain should shut up and accept the result. I reject platitudinous nonsense about having to stick together and make this work, chiefly because of the lies and misinformation of the leaders of the Leave campaign, … Continue reading Not in the family portrait: BME voters and Brexit – Part II
‘The Leave campaign made no effort to educate voters about the many benefits of being in the single market; instead, they spread fantastical ideas about a world of free trade outside the EU, as if anyone on the planet who wished to trade with the UK was not already doing so. The weight of expert … Continue reading Not in the family portrait: BME voters and Brexit – Part I
Are you an early bird? Dr Abby Day will be on BBC Radio 4 ‘Sunday‘ programme this Sunday live, between 7 and 9 a.m being interviewed by local radio stations on American research that shows Islam will be the largest world religion by 2050, overtaking Christianity and all others. Abby will be discussing how this … Continue reading Sunday
“Calculate is angry because all of his things were stolen in Puglia. He has nothing but his good English. He went to the police…He didn’t think. Next thing he was standing in a police station and someone wanted to fingerprint him. But you can’t get fingerprinted there. Unless you want to stay. Italy is like … Continue reading Stories of migration and exile: in conversation with writer Olumide Popoola
Game-playing, ‘spurious precision’ of league tables and heavy workloads also highlighted by insiders from 2014 audit. Article in the Times Higher on research undertaken by Professor Daniel Neyland and Dr Sveta Milyaeva from Goldsmiths Sociology. Continue reading Old and male REF panels fail to reward innovation
Oscar nominees’ refusal to be paid props for Brand Israel could reflect a desire to avoid a very polarised discussion; writes Catherine Rottenberg [Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths]. Continue reading Why Hollywood has abandoned Brand Israel
