Fantastic evening welcoming our new PhD students, including those joining us in social sciences and at CSDWestminster! Inspirations all around! ✊🏽📚🌟 @peter_bonfield Andrew Linn UoW Graduate School Westminster School of Social Sciences WestminsterPolitics&InternationalRelations @miriamdwek

35th birthday! CSD was born in 1989 at a key turning point in history; at this juncture, it revisits the work of the critical thinker on democracy & public intellectual Prof John Keane — CSD Encounter subject 2024 in special daylong event w keynote in evening on 8th November! 🌟

At the launch event for University of Westminster Press new #OpenAccess book We Need To Talk About Climate by Graham Smith University of Westminster - impt book on climate assemblies and why they matter. doi.org/10.16997/book73

We had an energising evening today at CSD with launch of our colleague Prof Graham Smith’s new book “We need to talk about #climate”, published by University of Westminster Press #OpenAccess Fantastic discussion by Miriam Levin Miriam Levin of Demos & Clare Farrell Clare Farrell of Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍

We had a brilliant discussion at CSD seminar yesterday on “Listening to the Mood of an Election” with Prof Stephen Coleman on citizenship, UK elections & radio call ins. Thank you @JacStJohn1 for facilitating. Next CSD seminar on 22 Oct — All welcome! Westminster School of Social Sciences #WeAreWestminster

Imp. trends on UK labour market declining women’s urban wage premium+ penalty for urban to rural move form the basis of Westminster Business School Dr Sabine D’Costa’s work. Prof Val Gillies (Centre for Social Justice Research) & I (CSDWestminster) provided sociological & political/feminist economics perspectives. #gender

It has been a labour of love to resuscitate CSD CSDWestminster Encounter. I am so proud of how it all came together on 8 Nov 2024. Thank you current/former/future CSDers + fantastic UoW colleagues (esp @peter_bonfield for encouragement). Most importantly, thank you John Keane

Panel on civil society and democracy with amanda machin, Myriam Fotou, Ivan Vejvoda, chair Patrick Burke

Panel on public life and late capitalism with James Stanyer, Stuart Isaacs, Colin Crouch, chair Rob Macmaster

Panel on fools, folly and politics with Lars Tonder, Camila Vergara, Agnes Horvath, chair Elisabetta Brighi

Panel with former CSDers reflecting on intellectual contribution of CSD to their academic journeys — Barry Buzan, Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Simon Joss, Richard G Whitman, amanda machin, Abdelwahab ElAffendi, John Keane, chair Roland Dannreuther (more reminiscing over dinner later!)

Intro, welcome remarks & visions for a future of CSD by Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD and VC @peter_bonfield, followed by keynote from John Keane (scintillating & indefatigable despite responding to all afternoon panels!) on China’s galaxy empire, response by Kerry Brown & Q&A afterwards.