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Ali Milani is a Labour Party politician, councillor, campaigner and activist. He served two years as Vice President of the National Union of Students, was elected as Labour Party councillor in the 2018 local elections, and was selected as the parliamentary candidate in Uxbridge and South Ruislip in September 2018. He has worked on multiple UK Labour leadership campaigns, as well as presidential campaigns in the United States.
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Marcial Bragadini Bóo chairs the UK’s Institute of Regulation and has been Chief Executive of both the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority and the UK Public Health Register. He is former Director of the National Audit Office and currently Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit at University College London, a board trustee of the think tank Demos and a policy adviser to the University of Bath.
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Heejung Chung is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. She is the author of The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation which is due to publish in March, 2022.
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Lambros Fatsis is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton. His research fuses Cultural Criminology with Black radical thought, focusing on police racism and the criminalisation of Black music subcultures. His co-authored book with Mark Carrigan, The Public and Their Platforms Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media is published by Bristol University Press. This month we are publishing another book he co-authored, Policing the Pandemic.
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We’re looking forward to this! You can take a look at our list before the conference here https://t.co/Rp932cXrPO #bsg2022
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Interesting launch of The Rules of Democracy by Marcial Boo @ucl.
Read John Holmwood's editorial from the new special issue of @DiscoverSoc on the #TrojanHorseAffair
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