Interview: David Halpern
The chief executive of the Behavioural Insights Team talks about how psychological insights and small changes can help companies to make big gai
Terrorism post 7/7: The elephant in the room of London Literature?
Terror is one of the defining words of our age. In my lifetime I’ve witnessed a shift in the use of the term; from a descriptive word describing extreme fear, to shorthand for terrorist activities committed by those claiming to act in the name of Islam.
Jack the Ripper: Literary Creation?
I feel that following the rather audacious title of this blog I should perhaps begin with a clarification; I fully accept that in 1888 a series of murders occurred in the Whitechapel area of London, however, what interests me is the way our cultural concept of ‘Jack the Ripper’ is so far removed and broader in scope than the rather paltry facts that exist about the murders.
Jekyll and Hyde, and the Whitechapel murders.
In this paper, I focus on the ways in which Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) has become indelibly linked with the Whitechapel murders.
Fear of a word? How queer.
Less than a month into my postgraduate studies I was excited to attend a research seminar at the University of Greenwich led by Dr Martin Dines, senior lecturer at Kingston University, entitled ‘Trouble with boys: Queer Domesticity and Egalitarian Relationships in Post-War London Novels’. It was a topic that was largely outside of my area of knowledge (although I had studied queer theory as an undergrad) and I was keen to learn about a new subject.
