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TALKS AND VISITING FELLOWSHIPS – AUTUMN 2025
I’m looking forward to some visiting fellowships and seminars this term, listed below. All welcome to the talks! Seminar “The Gamification of Citizenship”, Monday 20th October, 5pm Seminar “Children and Young People’s Experiences and Understandings of Gambling-Style Systems in Digital Games: Loot Boxes, Popular Culture, and Changing Childhoods”, Wednesday 26th November, 12 noon Seminar Dates…
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VOLUNTEERING & IMMIGRATION: RESPONSE TO THE UK GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER
Should volunteering play a role in points-based citizenship policies? In light of the UK Government’s recent White Paper on Immigration, Prof. Matt Baillie Smith (Northumbria University) and I share our thoughts in a new piece in Space and Polity: Immigration and contested politics of volunteering as ‘good behaviour’ We review the legacy of this idea,…
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COLLABORATIVE PHD WITH DCMS
Karen Brown started her PhD at Loughborough University yesterday for a new project I’ll be supervising entitled “Out of School Youth Provision: An Analysis of Funding and Operational Resilience within the Sector. This studentship is part-funded by the Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and co-supervised with Professor Darren Smith (Loughborough University) and Dr…
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THE BIG ISSUE
I’ve written an article for The Big Issue which is available in the physical magazine this week (9th – 15th June 2025) – ‘Apps can make us better citizens – but there’s also a cost’. It’s available for free online, with a different title ‘Should you be rewarded for throwing litter away? How gamification is…
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MILITARY GAP YEARS
I’ve got a new article out in The Conversation today – “UK looks to military gap years to boost recruitment in the face of growing geopolitical tension“. This follows the UK’s Strategic Defence Review, published earlier this week. I was invited to comment and provide some context on the plan for a voluntary programme for…
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BRITISH ACADEMY MID-CAREER FELLOWSHIP
I’ve been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, starting on 1st September 2025. The project is entitled “Gambling on Political Futures: Geographies of Political Betting”. Here’s a brief summary: “Political betting is a growing market of the trillion-dollar global gambling industry. UK consumers are placing more and more bets on elections, making it an ideal…
