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The Housing Market

Housing represents the main asset class held by UK households and we shall try to understand why it is held as such a large share of assets. We shall then outline whether this choice has other knock on effects in the economy such as labour and social mobility.

Do You Think The UK's Weak Trade Unions Is Related To Low Productivity?

A question from the lecture 'Employment and Unemployment' by Professor...

Does Technology Have An Influence On The Way Labour Models Work?

A question from the lecture 'Employment and Unemployment' by Professor...

Van Eyck's The Virgin with the Canon: Visual Disability and Societal Attitudes as Depicted in the Northern Renaissance

Examples of disease as shown in artworks will be examined, from the medical and surgical point of view as well as the historical and artistic ones, particularly visual loss as portrayed by artists from pre-historic times.

Doesn't paying back debt end up with someone having money in their pocket?

A question from the lecture 'Recession and Recovery' by Professor...

The Zika Virus, Dengue and the Yellow Fever Mosquito

The Zika virus originated in Africa and causes a febrile illness but was little known until it spread within Brazil in 2014. The lecture will also discuss the ‘nightmare scenario’ of the increased range of the mosquito as a result of climate change.