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Douglas Carswell MP has agreed hosted a meeting at the House of Commons on “Politics In The Digital Age: A Transformation.” At this meeting we discussed how the digital age could and is changing politics fundamentally. In Douglas Carswell’s Book The End of Politics he suggests that the digital revolution amounts to a transform...

The relationship of local government to local communities is vital to both local democracy and community building. In the last decade there has been some major shifts in thinking about this relationship. This meeting is about the nature of that shift. At this meeting we would like to create awareness about some of the major issues facing local government at a time of austerity and financial retrenchment. We would like to spark this off by looking at two models of future development in lo...

In the 21st century we are beginning to change our attitudes towards mental wellbeing. We know that one in four of us will face mental health problems in our lifetime and we also know that the pressures of modern life can adversely affect the wellbeing of us all. And yet we are often cautious over discussing mental wellbeing openl...

In the 21st century we are beginning to change our attitudes towards mental wellbeing. We know that one in four of us will face mental health problems in our lifetime and we also know that the pressures of modern life can adversely affect the wellbeing of us all. And yet we are often cautious over discussing mental wellbeing openl...

In the 21st century we are beginning to change our attitudes towards mental wellbeing. We know that one in four of us will face mental health problems in our lifetime and we also know that the pressures of modern life can adversely affect the wellbeing of us all. And yet we are often cautious over discussing mental well...

In the 21st century we are beginning to change our attitudes towards mental wellbeing. We know that one in four of us will face mental health problems in our lifetime and we also know that the pressures of modern life can adversely affect the wellbeing of us all. And yet we are often cautious over discussing mental wellbeing o...

This is a podcast by Leandro Sepulveda who is a Principal Researcher at TSRC and the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University Business School. His research provides evidence of the move towards what the current national policy discourse defines as social enterprise (SE) within an area of highly diverse population. [...]

This podcast is one of three that we are producing that addresses the ways different types of social enterprise can address disadvantage. In this Podcast we focus on homelessness and unemployment. In doing so, we hope to draw out the inherent tensions between social and economic goals, and to understand ways in which social enterprises can balance these in order to achieve their social goals. To discuss this with us we have Simon Teasdale who has been in...