Social Sciences | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Social Sciences

  • Portrait of Victoria Greenwood

    Victoria Greenwood

    I have spent my entire career in the world of crime and penology. I have degrees in Sociology ,Law and Criminology (Masters). I taught various aspects of Criminology at universities for many years to law sociology and social work students both in the UK and the US. Courses on rape, domestic violence,prostitution , youth crime, […]

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  • Andrew Green

    After a series of senior information services posts in UK universities, most recently in Swansea University, Andrew became Librarian (chief executive) of the National Library of Wales in 1998. The National Library in Aberystwyth is one of Wales’s leading cultural and information institutions: it is an archive, a screen and sound collection and an art […]

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  • Portrait of Doctor Tim Grant

    Dr. Tim Grant

    Tim Grant is Director of the Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University and has worked across the disciplines of forensic linguistics and forensic psychology for nearly 20 years. He publishes principally in the areas of forensic authorship analysis and on the linguistics of the investigative interview. Recent publications concentrate on determining authorship in short […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Simon Green

    Professor Simon Green

    Simon Green is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe (ACE) at Aston University, Birmingham. He specialises in European politics, focusing on immigration, integration and citizenship policy, as well as on German political structures and party politics. He is the co-author (together with Dan Hough and Alister Miskimmon) of a major […]

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  • Caroline Goyder

    Caroline Goyder is a voice, presentation and public speaking expert and mentor, and a popular speaker. Educated at St John’s College Oxford, and Central School of Speech and Drama, Caroline has specialized for nearly a decade in helping non-acting clients to perform with poise and power in real life, whether they are delivering a speech, […]

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  • Chris Grace

    Chris began his 30 year career in broadcasting as a programme scheduler with ITV Wales & West / HTV before co-founding Channel Four Wales/ S4C in 1982. He kick-started the Welsh animation industry with SuperTed and Fireman Sam. After the fall of the Berlin Wall he worked in Moscow, producing animated series of Shakespeare, Chaucer, […]

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  • Portrait of Lord Michael Grade

    Lord Michael Grade

    Michael Grade has had a long and distinguished career in broadcasting, encompassing London Weekend Television, the BBC, ITV, as well as over nine years as Chief Executive of Channel Four Television. In May 2004 he was appointed Chairman of the BBC, succeeding Gavyn Davies, resigning in November 2006 when his appointment as Executive Chairman of […]

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  • Baroness Mary Goudie

    Baroness Mary Goudie is a senior member of the British House of Lords and a global advocate for the rights of women and children. She is involved in promoting gender equity with both the G8 and G20 and is also the Chair of the Women Leaders’ Council to Fight Human Trafficking at the United Nations. […]

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  • Marcus Gover

    Marcus Gover has worked in the environment sector for over 25 years and is currently Chief Executive Officer of WRAP in the UK. WRAP is a not-for profit organisation working with governments, businesses and citizens to create a world in which resources are used sustainably. Its experts generate evidence-based solutions to protect the environment, build […]

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  • Portrait of Graham Goodkind

    Graham Goodkind

    A PR guy at heart, Graham is the founder and Chairman of leading consumer public relations agency Frank. Having won just about every industry award there is, Graham has been behind many of the most creative and engaging campaigns in the business. Having “gone plural” he now combines this role with several other roles and […]

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