SPOT Newsletter: 01 December 2010

With all of this snow and wintery weather affecting the majority of the UK you might be looking forward to your next summer beach holiday more than ever.  To help pass the time towards next summer this week’s SPOT newsletter begins with two short papers from the...

SPOT Newsletter: 17 November 2010

“Wrong target, using the wrong methods” is the message in the first of this fortnight’s SPOT Newsletter podcasts.  From a lifetimes’ involvement in sport policies largely at the universities of Loughborough and Gloucestershire, Michael Collins discusses the sports...

SPOT Newsletter: 3 November 2010

How is it that a man cannot avoid getting drunk with washer women when he knows his job is threatened by it?  Why does a thief running from a crime scene stop to buy a hat?  These are just some of the questions that Peter Andersson asks in his exploration of social...

SPOT Newsletter: 19 October 2010

 27 September – 15 October 2010 On 27 September Clare Mulley presented a paper to the Voluntary Action History Seminar on the philanthropist and founder of Save the Children, Eglantyne Jebb .  Based upon her recent award-winning biography: The woman who save the...