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Category Archives: Interviews
Feb 16 2013
5 Minutes with Professor Rachel Pain: “Research capacity is our greatest resource, and collaboration at any level has the potential to make for excellent research”
Leave a commentTweet Rachel Pain talks with Mark Carrigan to discuss the impact agenda, collaborative research, and the distinct opportunities and challenges posed to the academic community by the Research Excellence Framework (REF2014). She finds that now is the time for universities to … Continue reading
Posted by: February 16, 2013
Tagged with: Higher Education, Impact, public engagement
Feb 7 2013
The ‘jobs for generals’ scandal highlighted important issues about UK defence procurement
Leave a commentTweet The ‘jobs for generals’ scandal which erupted last October brought public attention to the so-called ‘revolving door’ between the defence sector and the Ministry of Defence in the UK. In this audio extra, BPP Managing Editor Mark Carrigan talks to … Continue reading
Posted by: February 7, 2013
Tagged with: Andrew Feinstein, arms trade, defence, defence sector, ministry of defence, revolving door
Feb 5 2013
Five minutes with Colin Crouch: “A post-democratic society is one that continues to have and to use all the institutions of democracy, but in which they increasingly become a formal shell”
1 CommentTweet While many observers have pointed to signs of malaise within liberal democracies, the political sociologist Colin Crouch has argued that we are in fact witnessing a transition towards a post-democratic society. In this article BPP Managing Editor Mark Carrigan talks to Colin … Continue reading
Posted by: February 5, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, colin crouch, post-democracy
Dec 13 2012
Five minutes with Noam Chomsky (Part 2): “Europe is pretty much following behind US policy, no matter what that policy is”
Leave a commentTweet The General Assembly of the United Nations has recently voted in favour of recognising Palestine as a non-member observer state. The EU was unable to reach a common position on the issue, with some states voting in favour and … Continue reading
Posted by: December 13, 2012
Tagged with: austerity, Chomsky, Europe
Dec 13 2012
Five minutes with Noam Chomsky (Part 1): “Europe’s policies make sense only on one assumption: that the goal is to try and undermine and unravel the welfare state.”
Leave a commentTweet In the first of two interviews with LSE EUROPP editors Stuart A Brown and Chris Gilson, Noam Chomsky discusses technocratic governance in Europe, why the eurozone’s austerity policies are failing to solve the crisis, and the rise of the far-right in … Continue reading
Posted by: December 13, 2012
Tagged with: austerity, Chomsky, Europe
