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Topic: Social Sciences

  • Portrait of Peter Bennett-Jones

    Peter Bennett-Jones

    Peter is a veteran tv, film and theatre producer. His former production company Tiger Aspect was responsible for countless international hits including Mr Bean, the Vicar of Dibley, Charlie and Lola, Billy Elliot and Robin Hood. He currently chairs Burning Bright Prods and PBJ Management. PBJ and KBJ represent leading comedy and presenting talent including […]

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  • Josh Berger

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  • Portrait of Professor Jonathan Benger

    Professor Jonathan Benger

    Jonathan Benger is Professor of Emergency Care in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of the West of England. He leads the Emergency and Critical Care Research Theme, and is Director of the Bristol Academic Department of Emergency Care. Jonathan’s main research interests relate to emergency and pre-hospital care, cardiac arrest, […]

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  • Portrait of Jason Beattie

    Jason Beattie

    Jason has been the Political Editor of the Daily Mirror since 2010. Having started as a cub reporter in Solihull he joined the Birmingham Post in 1995. Since 2000 he has had the privilege of covering Westminster politics for broadsheet, mid-market and tabloid newspapers including the Scotsman and the Evening Standard. During that time he […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Ian J Bateman OBE

    Professor Ian J Bateman OBE

    Ian is an environmental economist with a wide array of research interests. These revolve around the issue of ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural and social science knowledge within decision making and policy. Particular interests lie in the fields of quantitative analysis, integrated modelling and the valuation of non-market benefits and costs. Ian […]

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  • Portrait of Toby Baxendale

    Toby Baxendale

    Toby Baxendale (www.tobybaxendale.com) built from nothing , the UK’s largest fresh fish processor / supplier (Direct Seafoods / Seafood Holdings) to the UK’s food service sector and sold it at the end of 2010 to a large global conglomerate . He now invests in supporting other entrepreneurs building their businesses and cultivating talent . Fish […]

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  • Portrait of Kurt Barling

    Kurt Barling

    Kurt went to Comprehensive School in North London. He began his career as a gifted academic at the London School of Economics studying successfully all the way to Ph.D. level. He became a journalist fired up by the need for rigorous and better access driven journalism in the wake of the terrible Broadwater Farm riots […]

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  • Portrait of Jamie Bartlett

    Jamie Bartlett

    Jamie is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media which focuses on the ways in which social media and modern communications and technology are changing political and social movements, with a special emphasis on terrorism and radical political movements. Jamie is also the Daily Telegraph’s technology blogger where he covers all aspects […]

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  • Portrait of Judith Batchelar

    Judith Batchelar OBE

    Judith is a Biochemist, nutritionist, has an Honorary Doctorate in Agriculture from Harper Adams University, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST), the Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures (RSA) and a liveryman at The Worshipful Company of Butchers. Judith started her career in pharmaceuticals and teaching before finding […]

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  • Gordon Banks

    I have worked in the construction industry for 46 years with major construction and housing companies. Since 1986 I have run my own business (a builders merchant) supplying materials to the construction sector. From 2005-2015 I was also Labour Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire in Scotland. During this period I held positions […]

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