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Nickell

  • Professor Steve Nickell examined why countries rich in natural resources tend to be poorer than those without ('Number Cruncher' Prospect, 21 October 2009)
  • Professor Steve Nickell wrote on the misinterpretation of statistics in his column in Prospect magazine (Number cruncher, Prospect, 23 September 2009)
  • Professor Stephen Nickell wrote on the impact of the under-prediction of life expectancy over many years has had on pensions and the income of retired people (Matter of facts, Prospect magazine, June 2009)

Nussbaum

  • Professor Martha Nussbaum answers questions on the state of ideas in the USA, the nature of disgust, and the arguments for and against gay marriage (Questions for Martha Nussbaum: Gross National Politics, New York Times, 10 December 2009 )
  • Professors Martha Nussbaum and Robert Putnam participated in an examination of the president-elect's career as an academic lawyer at Chicago and Harvard universities (Obama: Professor President, BBCR4, 6 January 2009 (repeated 11 January 2009))

O'Neill

  • Baroness (Onora) O'Neill, immediate past President of the Academy, gave the 2009 Beveridge Lecture at the Royal Statistical Society in which she considered what is needed if accountability is to support not only more trustworthy performance but more intelligent placing and refusal of trust. ('Holding Accountability to Account', Royal Statistical Society, 27 October 2009)
  • Baroness Onora O'Neill of Bengarve took part in a discussion of ‘science and tolerance’ as part of a series of events on ‘The Enlightenment: An 18th Century Revolution of Thought’ organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in parallel with the Edinburgh Festival (21 August 2009, details available via Royal Society of Edinburgh website)
  • Onora O'Neill, President of the British Academy, gave the Ashby lecture, organised annually by Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, under the title 'Perverting Trust' (15 May 2009, reported on the University of Cambridge website)

Parekh

  • Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh and Professor Amartya Sen have been appointed to the Prime Minister of India’s Global Advisory Council to facilitate two-way engagement between stakeholders in India and the overseas Indian community (‘PM’s Global Advisory Council constituted’, Thaindian News, 6 January 2009)

Phillips

  • Professor Anne Phillips has been awarded a Special Recognition Award by the Political Studies Association (PSA Awards 2008, reported 8 January 2009)

Posner

  • Justice Richard D. Posner wrote on how he came to a new appreciation of Keynesian economics in the light of the current financial crisis ('How I Became a Keynesian', The New Republic, 23 September 2009)

Rees

  • Professor Graham Rees was appointed OBE in the 2008 New Year’s Honours List

Renfrew

  • Professor Colin Renfrew (Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn) has been honoured with the Beacon Award of 'Save Archaeology for Everyone' for his contribution to raising awareness about the problem of pillage and the illicit trade in antiquities (Archaeological Institute of America, reported 8 January 2009)

Reynolds

  • Professor David Reynolds returned to BBCR4 with the second part of his major history of the USA (America, Empire of Liberty, BBCR4, 19 January - 27 February 2009)

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Roberts

  • Sir Adam Roberts, President of the Academy, is co-editor, with Timothy Garton Ash, of Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present, which will be published by Oxford University Press in October 2009.
  • Professor Sir Adam Roberts wrote the lead article in the February/March issue of Survival, the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in which he and editor Dana Allin discuss the causes of growing pessimism about the Afghan mission (‘Doctrine and reality in Afghanistan’, Survival 51:1, extract available, video discussion also available) (February 2009)
  • Professor Sir Adam Roberts, President-elect of the British Academy, delivered the Ernst Sucharipa Memorial Lecture at the Diplomatic Academy of the Vienna School of International Studies on ‘1989-2009: The End of the Cold War Twenty Years After’ (2 April 2009)

Rose

  • Professor Richard Rose received a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to comparative electoral studies from the International Comparative Studies of Electoral Systems Consortium, the third such award he has received (reported 25 February 2009)

Ryan

  • Professor Alan Ryan gave evidence to the Commons Select Committee on Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills in March. He advocated a new national body to approve university degrees and verify academic standards. (30 March 2009, evidence available from the Committee’s website)

Savill

  • Ms Ros Savill was appointed DBE in the 2008 New Year’s Honours List.

Scruton

  • Professor Roger Scruton presented essay on the importance of beauty in the arts and in our lives and made a case for restoring beauty to its traditional position at the centre of our civilisation (Why Beauty Matters, BBC 2, 28 November 2009)
  • Professor Roger Scruton spoke for the motion 'Britain has become indifferent to beauty' at an Intelligence Squared debate on 19 March 2009. An extract from his latest book, Beauty, was published in the Times (Beauty by Roger Scruton, Times, 14 March 2009
  • Professor Roger Scruton participated in an IntelligenceSquared debate on the motion: Britain has become indifferent to beauty. This was one in a series of debates on the quality of life organized in partnership with the National Trust. (19 March 2009)
  • Professor Roger Scruton re-assessed the career of Mary Midgley ('Underrated: Mary Midgley', Standpoint magazine, January 2009)

Sen

  • Professor Amartya Sen's book, The Idea of Justice, was reviewed in the New Republic ('The Ideal and the Real', Moshe Halbertal, The New Republic, 12 December 2009)
  • Professor Amartya Sen's latest book, The Idea of Justice, in which he discusses the conflict between personal liberty and social justice, was reviewed in the Spectator (The human element, Jonathan Sumption, The Spectator, 26 July 2009)
  • Professor Lord Amartya Sen, his role as a public intellectual, theories of inequality and social justice, and influence on the thinking of contemporary progressive politicians, in the UK and around the world, were the subject of a feature profile in the New Statesman (The New Statesman Profile: Amartya Sen, New Statesman, 23 July 2009)
  • Professor Lord Amartya Sen’s latest book, The Idea of Justice, was selected as ‘book of the week’ by the Independent (Book of the Week: The Idea of Justice, By Amartya Sen, Independent, 21 August 2009)
  • Professor Amartya Sen joined a panel of distinguished speakers at the Royal Society of Arts to discuss whether multiplicity is a particularly Indian trait (The Many Avatars of the Indian Creative Mind, Royal Society of Arts, 20 April 2009 )

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Shlaim

  • Professor Avi Shlaim's latest book, Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations was reviewed in the New Republic ('Derisionist History', Benny Morris, The New Republic, 12 December 2009)

Skidelsky

  • Professor Robert Skidelsky’s biography of John Maynard Keynes, Keynes: the Return of the Master, has been selected as one of the Daily Telegraph's economics books of the year ('Economics books of the year', Daily Telegraph, 1 December 2009)
  • Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky participated in an examination of the current state of economics as a profession, and what it can learn from the current financial crisis ('The Economist's New Clothes', Analysis, BBCR4, 2 November 2009)
  • Professor Lord Robert Skidlesky's and Professor Peter Clarke's biographies of John Maynard Keynes were both reviewed in the Independent (Keynes: the return of the master, By Robert Skidelsky and Keynes, By Peter Clarke, Independent, 4 September 2009)
  • Professor Robert Skidelsky (Lord Skidelsky of Tilton) was featured in the 'Lunch with...' column in the Financial Times He discussed his career as an economist and his particular interest in John Maynard Keynes (also a Fellow of the Academy) (‘Lunch with the FT: Robert Skidelsky’, Financial Times, 28 August 2009)
  • Professor Robert Skidelsky’s biography of John Maynard Keynes, Keynes: The Return of the Master, was reviewed in the Guardian by the Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman, who noted that the great economist's theories have never been more relevant – and his biographer remains their most compelling advocate (‘Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky’, Guardian, 30 August 2009)
  • Professor Robert Skidelsky (Lord Skidelsky of Tilton) considered the current state and future direction of economics as a discipline following the failure of experts in the field to predict the credit crunch and subsequent world-wide recession ('How to rebuild a shamed subject’, Financial Times, 5 August 2009)
  • Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky appeared on BBCR4's Week in Westminster discussing the severity of the economic downturn, and whether it might turn into a depression (17 January 2009)
  • Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky proposed a way forwards through the economic crisis ('Where do we go from here' Prospect magazine, January 2009)

Skinner

  • Professor Andrew Skinner took part in a discussion entitled ‘Political Economy: Adam Smith and Others’ as part of a series of events on ‘The Enlightenment: An 18th Century Revolution of Thought’ organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in parallel with the Edinburgh Festival (3 September 2009, details available via Royal Society of Edinburgh website)

Smith

  • Professor Susan J Smith has taken up her appointment as Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge (reported to the Academy 7 October 2009)

Stern

  • Professor Lord (Nick) Stern has issued a statement on the likelihood that serious climate change can be averted if a political agreement can be reached at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. He has also issued a 'policy brief' on the same issue. ('Copenhagen agreement could give us a '50-50 chance' of avoiding global warming of more than 2?C, says Nicholas Stern', LSE news release, 1 December 2009; 'Deciding our future in Copenhagen: will the world rise to the challenge of climate change?' Nicholas Stern, December 2009)
  • Lord (Nick) Stern called for Barack Obama to attend the forthcoming Copenhagen Climate Conference to ensure that an effective deal on tackling climate change is to be reached this December ('Barack Obama must attend Copenhagen climate summit, says Lord Stern', Times, 27 October 2009)
  • Lord Nicholas Stern was profiled in the Guardian, with an accompanying extract from his new book A Blueprint For a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity, in which he argues that the time for debate on climate change is well and truly over. ('We're the first generation that has had the power to destroy the planet. Ignoring that risk can only be described as reckless', Guardian, 30 March 2009)
  • Professor Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, appeared on BBC R4’s Start the Week, discussing climate change and the possibility that, if action is taken quickly, a cleaner, safer world with less poverty might be created (Start the Week, BBCR4, 30 March 2009)
  • Professor Nicholas Stern (Baron Stern of Brentford), author of the 2006 Stern Review on climate change, warned that politicians have not yet recognised the potential social impact of climate change, noting that it was more important than ever that a deal was reached at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December 2009 (Nicholas Stern: politicians have no idea of the impact of climate change, Times, 13 March 2009 )

Strathern

  • Professor Marilyn Strathern led a discussion on the ‘value of useless knowledge’ at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanitites’ CHAT series (CHAT, IASH, University of Edinburgh, 6 February 2009)

Stiglitz

  • Professor Joseph Stiglitz was interviewed by the New Yorker on the mishandling of the financial crisis, the relationship between government and markets, and the future of capitalism. (Joseph Stiglitz interviewed by James Surowiecki, New Yorker, 28 September 2009 (video) )
  • Professor Joseph Stiglitz chaired a Commission for French government examining alternatives to GDP and GNP as measures of social progress and state performance. Professor Amartya Sen served as an adviser to the Commission ('Towards a better measure of well-being', Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Financial Times, 13 September 2009; full text of the Report is available from http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/en/index.htm)

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