Professor Henning Melber , senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies ( ICWS ), looks at the role of faith-based organisations in achieving sustainable development goals in a blog post for the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes.

Sarah Churchwell , the School of Advanced Study’s public engagement chair and professorial fellow in American literature at the Institute of English Studies ( IES ), examines the interconnections of slavery and capitalism in the New York Review of Books article, ‘ ”The Lehman trilogy” and Wall Street’s debt to slavery ’.

Dr Elizabeth Dearnley, visiting research fellow at the Institute of English Studies ( IES ), discusses the life of Bletchley Park code breaker Mavis Batey on BBC Radio 5 Live (at 49 minutes). 

Professor Barry Smith’s involvement with Life Kitchen, a project exploring cookery classes for people living with cancer, features in iNews , The Huffington Post , The Caterer , Yahoo UK & Ireland , MSN UK and Urban Intention .  Professor Smith, director of the Institute of Philosophy (IP) and founder of the Centre for the Study of the Senses, used his expertise to help create a menu suitable for patients who suffer a dramatic change in their sense of taste.