I submitted my PhD about 10 weeks ago now. It was entitled "Power, inequity, and socio-ecological transformation in UK rewilding". I’m still waiting for my viva. I’ve been doing this...

Back in December 2024 I saw an email from the British Sociology Association, offering £1000 for any PGRs who wanted to organise a regional conference. I thought, “OK why...

For a while it has seemed that Monbiot’s works exist in two largely separate universes. His works either look at corporate power, corruption, and capitalism; how this affects the both...

Today I submitted a draft of my whole thesis. Technically I think I should feel no different, at the end of the day, I’ve still got 80k worth of editing...

I have just returned from a three month trip to Wageningen University in the Netherlands, funded by the Overseas Institutional Visit fund from the SCDTP. I was invited by Bram...

I was lucky enough in my PhD research to be given funding to visit Wageningen University for three months. As part of this, I presented some of my findings to...

If you look in any popular bookstore these days, you’ll find books on rewilding…. There are books about rewilding your garden, rewilding your mind, rewilding your life. The word entered...

This post is a bit of an experiment: partly holiday blog and partly a bunch of random thoughts about political economy. I don’t know whether it will work, but lets...

In Decembder 2018 I submitted my dissertation on ideology and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It examines how ideology functions in Silicon Valley, specifically examining Facebook and how the condradictions of...