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What Can We Learn From Fakes?
It seems that fakes are everywhere – very few domains of social life are exempt from concerns about fakes and a general ‘crisis of authenticity’. Whi…
3 years, 11 months ago
Supply Chains in the Wellbeing Economy
In this lecture we are going to look at how the supply chains in a wellbeing economy bring together local production of food and stewardship of natur…
4 years ago
People and Purpose: Putting Positive Impact at The Heart of Economic Growth
As we build on the economic recovery from COVID-19, we need to put our people and our purpose at the heart of financial and professional services to …
4 years ago
Soviet Music in World War II
The tribulations of WWII (the “Great Patriotic War”) prompted a temporary liberalisation within Soviet culture. Images of horror and grief, formerly …
4 years ago
The Surprising Uses of Conic Sections
Conic sections – the curves made by slicing through cones at various angles – were studied by the ancient Greeks, but because of their useful propert…
4 years ago
The Global Financial Crisis and COVID... What Next?
‘Hyper-globalisation’ and the power of finance culminated in the global financial crisis of 2008 that was potentially as severe as the Great Depressi…
4 years ago
Integral Transforms
Integral transforms are the most rarefied of analyses – only used by a subset of engineers and computer scientists; laboured over by many an undergra…
4 years ago
Social Media, COVID & Ukraine: Fighting Disinformation
Organised disinformation about the Covid-19 crisis has degraded public understanding of the crisis and threatened the reputation of credible vaccines…
4 years ago
Humour and Music
The scherzo (‘joke’) emerged in the vocal music of Monteverdi and became integrated into the string quartets and symphonies of Beethoven. Haydn and M…
4 years ago
Freezing Eggs and Delaying Fertility: Law, Ethics and Society
With the development of new vitrification techniques, egg freezing has become a viable option for women to protect and extend their fertility. Being …
4 years ago