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A watershed moment for the Olympic Committee as it maps out its future
Last year, the inhabitants of Bavaria overwhelmingly voted against Munich even bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Ludwig Hartman, a member of the Green Party in the Bavarian state...
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Connecting Jobs and Poverty in Cities
Guest post by Dr. Paul Sissons, Centre for Business in Society It is well known that being out of work increases the risk of poverty. In recent years there has also been a growing concern about the...
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An Insight into China’s Recent Stock Mess
By Dr Yun Luo, Centre for Business in Society Over a 3 week period, in July 2015, the Shanghai composite index had fallen by 30%. Around 1,500 listed companies suspended trading in an attempt to...
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How Russia Has Devoted Its Energy to the Beautiful Game
Guest post by Professor Simon Chadwick. As the new European football season starts and the tiresome FIFA corruption scandal rumbles on, most of us are inevitably preoccupied either by who will win the...
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We’re Still Living in a Material World
By Dr Andrew Perchard, Centre for Business in Society In 1995, the prominent technological futurist Nicholas Negroponte predicted that the world would soon see “bits” replace “atoms”; the intellectual...
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The Spectre Haunting Manufacturing: The UK Legacy of Deindustrialisation
Guest post by Dr Andrew Perchard, Centre for Business in Society The latest announcement by Tata Steel of the loss of a further 1200 jobs in the UK steel industry – 970 in Scunthorpe, North...
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Making mealtimes matter: commensality, collaboration and building...
by Marsha Smith, PhD Candidate Perhaps one of the most ubiquitous manifestations of human sociality is commensality: the human practice of eating together or, to put it more exactly, of eating...
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How to snowball networking opportunities during your research trip
By Nora Lanari – CBiS PhD Candidate Travelling to conferences within and beyond the UK in order to create and manage international networks for research is an important part of being an academic. At...
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Protea Power: How Sustainable is the Cape Flora Industry’s Rapid Growth?
Author: Dr. David Bek, Senior Research Fellow, CBiS South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region is an area of striking biodiversity containing 9000 plant species of which 69% are endemic. These include the...
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