Left Behind: How poor places can get trapped, and how they can catch up.

Professor Sir Paul Collier

The Bowman Lecture in association with the University of Glasgow

Professor Sir Paul Collier Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School, University of Oxford. Sir Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College. From 1998–2003 he took a five-year Public Service leave during…

Changing the Lens on Mental Health.

Alastair Campbell

Alastair Campbell Communicator, Writer, Strategist Alastair Campbell is a writer, communicator and strategist best known for his role as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications and strategy. Still active in politics and campaigns in Britain and overseas, he now splits his time between…

Professor Gerry Carruthers

Robert Burns and 18th Century Thought

Professor Gerard Carruthers Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow Gerard Carruthers FRSE is Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is General Editor of the Oxford University Press edition of the multi-volume edition of the Collected Works of Robert Burns and Principal Investigator of…

Lucasta Miller

John Keats: Body and Soul

Sally Beamish

Inspiration