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Director of the Leverhulme Trust
We're at a key moment in the transformation of our knowledge economy. Arts and humanities help ensure that science and innovation remain human-centered, responsible, and beneficial to society as a whole. Innovation and tradition are utterly inseparable parts of the human spirit. That is the basis of our creativity and our future.
Professor of Ancient History
Who owns knowledge? I always think, as a social anthropologist, that it is wise to remember that there are definite limits to your expertise as an academic. Communities produce knowledge in many different ways. What we have to understand about the knowledge people have of their own lives is that they are the experts of their own lives.
Founder and Director, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, Chair of Culture, Philosophy and Design
Economics & Politics
Universities face growing financial pressure, public scepticism and a flood of misinformation. Research must engage the public, strengthen critical thinking and provide rigorous evidence to inform — rather than dictate — public debate.
Director of the Leverhulme Trust
Economics & Politics
Universities face growing financial pressure, public scepticism and a flood of misinformation. Research must engage the public, strengthen critical thinking and provide rigorous evidence to inform — rather than dictate — public debate.
Director of the Leverhulme Trust
We're at a key moment in the transformation of our knowledge economy. Arts and humanities help ensure that science and innovation remain human-centered, responsible, and beneficial to society as a whole. Innovation and tradition are utterly inseparable parts of the human spirit. That is the basis of our creativity and our future.
Professor of Ancient History
Economics & Politics
Universities face growing financial pressure, public scepticism and a flood of misinformation. Research must engage the public, strengthen critical thinking and provide rigorous evidence to inform — rather than dictate — public debate.
Director of the Leverhulme Trust
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From the battlefields of the 19th century to today’s wars and humanitarian crises, this conversation opens vital reflections on how modern compassion was invented, organised, and politicised — and why preserving humanitarian archives may be essential to protecting humanity itself.
Professor of Cultural History
When you think about prosperity, you have to ask yourself: what does it take to be doing well? And very often we don’t ask that question. Instead, we ask: what is good for the economy?
Founder and Director, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, Chair of Culture, Philosophy and Design
While societies have adapted to climate change throughout history through agriculture, technology, and irrigation, it is foolish to assume that having better understanding of the science of climate change will automatically lead to an effective and smooth adaptation to the climate changes we are going to see. There is an imperative to prepare and act both individually and collectively.
Professor of Human Geography.
Founder and Director, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, Chair of Culture, Philosophy and Design
When you think about prosperity, you have to ask yourself: what does it take to be doing well? And very often we don’t ask that question. Instead, we ask: what is good for the economy?
Who owns knowledge? I always think, as a social anthropologist, that it is wise to remember that there are definite limits to your expertise as an academic. Communities produce knowledge in many different ways. What we have to understand about the knowledge people have of their own lives is that they are the experts of their own lives.
Imagine that human societies had not changed from their earliest times up to the present day—how would we all be living now? The really important element of social change is: how can societies imagine themselves as changing.
Founder and Director, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, Chair of Culture, Philosophy and Design
Founder and Director, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, Chair of Culture, Philosophy and Design
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