It is with great excitement (although mixed with more than a little sadness) that I announce that I will be leaving the University of East Anglia in a couple of months. From September 2010, I will become a Lecturer in Media and Communications in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘UEA’
At least two reasons why Brett’s work is important
As I tweeted earlier today, my colleague Brett Mills is having a bit of an odd day. He has been pilloried on CiF, readers of the Indy website have said rude things about him and (apparently, I haven’t heard it yet) Gabby Logan on Radio 5 asked him if he gets off on watching mice [...]
Peter Hennessey at UEA (John Garrett Memorial lecture)
Watching Prime Ministers is interesting. Political scientists have theories, historians don’t. I sometimes might have termed this approach gossip with footnotes. Our notion of what a PM should be is conditioned by the first one we experience. Mine was MacMillan, so since then I have expected every PM to stylish, steeped in the classics and [...]
The gambler’s argument
Despite being at the centre of an international storm, life continues at normal for most of us at UEA. Nonetheless, there is a sense that the leaking of emails relating to the work of the Climate Research Unit has done serious damage to the public’s confidence in the idea of enhanced global warming. Yet it [...]
Liveblog: Dr Scott Wright, UEA seminar – Mapping the Participatory Journey in Online Consultations (5/5/2009)
On Tuesday my colleague Dr Scott Wright gave a paper on government consultations online and how we should be thinking about the digital divide in this context. This is my effort to liveblog it. I should stress these are simply my notes, so any errors and omissions are entirely my fault.
For the purposes of this [...]