David Miller delivers lecture series on think tanks
30 November 2012
Professor David Miller delivered a seminar on 29 November at the Division of Sociology, Social Policy & Applied Social Sciences at Southampton University on ‘Think tanks, Islam and disembedded expertise’.
In the seminar David discussed the application of Karl Polanyi’s ideas on embedding and disembedding to the analysis of think tanks in the neoliberal period.
The seminar formed part of the think tanks series.
On 14-17 October Professor Miller presented his work with PhD candidate Claire Harkins to the Helsinki at a thematic meeting of the Kettil Bruun society. In the meeting, titled ‘ Addiction: What is the added value of the concept today’, they delivered papers on public funding of think tanks attacking public health, as well as the role of the alcohol industry in shaping European Commission policy on public health. These papers contained the first findings from the ALICE RAP FP7 project.
Professor Miler also presented a seminar at the School of Journalism Media and Cultural Studies in Cardiff on 7 November titled ‘How ideas about terrorism and Islam are mobilised: Think tanks, expertise and policy.’
Further information
Further information on the seminar series can be found on David Miller’s profile page.
