by imagineer | Jan 31, 2018 | General Comments
Guy Standing, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), will be joining us this Thursday (1st February) for an exciting talk about universal basic income. Standing’s best-known book is ‘The Precariat:...
by imagineer | Jan 19, 2018 | General Comments
Well that was something. Kate Raworth is about as sunny and bubbly a person as you could hope to meet, and yet when she speaks her mind, you know you’ve heard. She calls herself a renegade economist, though it wouldn’t be ridiculous to call her a...
by Mark Carrigan | Nov 26, 2017 | General Comments
“Social media has had such a bad press in the last few years. It’s been blamed for fake news, extremism, radicalisation and terrorism.” On the 16th of November Helen Margetts, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, presented Imagine2027’s fourth talk, exploring...
by imagineer | Nov 16, 2017 | General Comments
Tonight at 6.30pm, Helen Margetts will be giving a talk on the exciting and crucial question of how social media can work for greater equality. Helen is director of the Oxford Internet Institute and Professor of Society and the Internet. She specialises in how...
by imagineer | Nov 9, 2017 | General Comments
After packed houses for Ann and Danny last month (see podcasts page if you missed them), we’ve got three more this month: Michael Marmot tonight (already sold out sadly), and then Helen Margetts talking on the fascinating, scary and hugely relevant subject of...
by imagineer | Oct 19, 2017 | General Comments
Tonight, Danny Dorling will be joining us for a talk on ‘Education, Equality and Everything Else’. Danny is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford and a well-known expert on the topic of inequality, and has published over forty books...
