Speaker
Grace Blakely is a journalist and author, currently a staff writer for Tribune. She was previously the economics commentator for the New Statesman. Her three books to date include Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation (2019) and Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom (2024).
Speaker
Justin Schlosberg is a media activist, researcher and lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Power Beyond Scrutiny: Media, Justice and Accountability (2013).
Speaker
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has been a journalist in print, radio and TV for the past four decades. She has written for many titles including The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times and Time magazine, and her books include After Multiculturalism (2000) and In Defence of Political Correctness (2018). She is senior research associate at the Foreign Policy Centre, an honorary fellow at Liverpool John Moores University, and honorary visiting professor at Cardiff and Lincoln Universities. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
Chair and Director of Studies
Stephen Law is a Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Certificate of Higher Education at OUDCE. His research focuses on the philosophy of mind, language, metaphysics and on philosophy of religion. He also writes many accessible online articles and edits the Royal Institute of Philosophy journal THINK: Philosophy for Everyone.
