Discover Society

Robin Cohen (University of Oxford) This title is clearly a provocation. How can a politician who has garnered support from about [...]

Yasmin Gunaratnam (Goldsmiths, University of London) In an undated lecture, ‘The Problem Patient’, the doctor Cicely Saunders, presented her observations of [...]

Alice Bloch (University of Manchester), Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) and Roger Zetter (University of Oxford) Most European media have recently [...]

Ruben Andersson (London School of Economics and Political Science) It is without doubt one of the most iconic migration images of [...]

Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck, University of London)  Over the last thirty years, sovereignty has become an endangered concept,(1) and there is no [...]

Julia Willén (Linköping University)   We aim, politically, at government of the Africans by the Africans, for the Africans, with everybody who owes [...]

Jo Warner (University of Kent) For some 40 years, responses to the deaths of children from abuse and neglect have been [...]

Ansgar Allen (University of Sheffield) It is hard to exaggerate the sad plight faced by today’s educators. They operate in a [...]

Andrew Dunn (University of Lincoln) The Coalition government has increased the number of conditions attached to receiving unemployment benefit (Jobseeker’s Allowance/JSA, [...]

Oliver Smith (University of Plymouth) and Thomas Raymen (Durham University) The widespread importation of the US shopping phenomenon known as Black [...]