Night School: Mass Civilisation, Minority Culture

Sean Matthews from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures recently appeared on Sharaad Kuttan’s new BFM Radio show ‘Night School’, discussing F.R. Leavis’s seminal work, ‘Mass Civilization and Minority Culture’. In a lively discussion, Sean explored, and defended, Leavis’s position, explaining that Leavis’s argument was not about excluding people from knowledge and culture, and …

Research Priorities Workshop: Overwhelming Questions

This post is authored by Dr Sean Matthews, Head of School or the School of Modern Languages and Culture. It is in response to the two research prioritiy workshops that we have recently held (see here and here). Overwhelming Questions: UNMC Research Priorities Workshop, April 30 2013 Our UNMC Research Priorities Workshop brought into focus …

Renovation: EB36 MBA Workroom

The work that Estates do is important to maintain and improve the campus. I guess we are all aware of the major building projects that get undertaken, with the most recent example being the opening of the new accommodation block by our new chancellor. However, an important part of the work that estates do is …

The Boustead Annual Globalisation Lecture delivered by His Excellency Simon Featherstone, British High Commissioner to Malaysia

We were fortunate to have the Boustead Annual Globalisation Lecture delivered by His Excellency Simon Featherstone (British High Commissioner to Malaysia) (21st Feb 2013). This is a lecture which is given as part of Nottingham’s Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) annual conference which has taken place in Malaysia since 2008. This …

Academia is a very well kept secret

Jeannie Holstein, from NUBS in the UK, was recently featured in The Guardian. The piece starts … “Very early in my doctoral journey, I was fortunate to experience that moment when you know the decision you have made was the right one. It came with the realisation that I was being paid, not very much …