Guidestar International Assembly

I did a talk a few weeks ago for the Guidestar International Assembly – bringing people from around the world interested in accountability and governance for civil society.

The Carnegie Inquiry I’m chairing has published a report that comes out of meetings all over the UK and Ireland looking at possible futures for civil society. A short piece in the Guardian provides an overview.

We had the prize giving for the second Michael Young Prize this week. The aim of the prize is to encourage newer academics to do work that draws on real life observation and has relevance to society – to help balance the many pressures to a more inward looking academia. This year there were two really excellent winners – Asi Sharabi and Elizabeth Pellicano.

We’re just completing our report on extremism – looking in particular at Barking and Stoke. The work has involved lots of interviews and meetings with people who either support the BNP or are considering it. It’s very striking picture of political alienation and disconnection – of communities who feel left behind by a political system that’s concerned with swing voters in leafy suburbs.

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