Commentary & Podcasts

In our latest instalment of ‘Ask the Expert’, we were joined by Colin Harvey, Professor of Human Rights Law, Queen’s University Belfast who explored one of the most current topics of conversation – Brexit and Northern Ireland.

In our latest ESRC-sponsored Ask the Expert seminar, the SMF co-hosted a one-off panel discussion with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) and Sense about Science on the rapidly changing policy landscape of homelessness prevention.

One of the many puzzles presented by the 2017 general election campaign and result is what looks to some like a return to something resembling the stable two-party system of earlier decades.

In our latest ESRC-sponsored Ask The Expert seminar, Dr Martin Moore, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King’s College, London, analysed the power of the tech giants and argued that democratic governments have misunderstood the problem.

In our latest ESRC-sponsored Ask The Expert seminar, Professor Helen Drake, Institute Director, Diplomacy and International Governance at Loughborough University London, introduced the work and initial findings of a new research project looking on Brexit perspectives and negotiating positions of the remaining 27 EU member states.

In our latest ESRC-sponsored Ask The Expert seminar, Dr Sabine Hauert, assistant professor in robotics at the University of Bristol and co-founder of the robotics platform robohub.org, discussed the potential benefits robotics and artificial intelligence yield for people, and the need to ‘dehype’ the debate surrounding technology.