Event details Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry Occasional Lecture Organized by the Mind and Reason group, Department of Philosophy, University of York. In this lecture Louis Sass considers the enigmatic nature of human subjectivity, which the philosopher Merleau-Ponty referred to as the “flaw in the great diamond of the world.” First he offers a historical […]
How do we keep women safe? The conversation continues. And the loudest voices call for self-defense classes, rape alarms, trackers and a dress code.The conversation needs to change. The voices of women need to be at the centre, but the responsibility and accountability lies elsewhere.She Was Walking Home is a new piece of testimonial theatre […]
In 2021, for the first time, The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released data on how safe people feel in different public settings. One in two women felt unsafe walking alone after dark in a quiet street near their home, or in a busy public place and two out of three women aged 16 to […]
Event details CHE Policy Forums In 2021-22, prescription medicines cost the NHS in England £17.2 billion. Current policies, like NICE technology appraisal and the Voluntary Scheme, aim to incentivise innovation while ensuring access and affordability. This session explores recent research suggesting that prioritising long-term population health as the central objective of pharmaceutical pricing policy can […]
Event details CHE Policy Forum The way the NHS pays providers of emergency healthcare has been changing with an increasing emphasis on what is called blended payment. This means that there is discretion to move away from nationally set prices and ‘blend’ activity-based payments with a fixed element of payment. This talk will review research […]
Event details Inaugural Lecture Making dramas about the past has always been a political act, because how you respond to history shows how you’re thinking about the present. Yet history plays have been notably absent from recent culture-war attacks on the arts. This wasn’t always the case. In the last decades of the twentieth century, […]
In 2021, for the first time, The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released data on how safe people feel in different public settings. One in two women felt unsafe walking alone after dark in a quiet street near their home, or in a busy public place and two out of three women aged 16 to […]
In 2021, for the first time, The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released data on how safe people feel in different public settings. One in two women felt unsafe walking alone after dark in a quiet street near their home, or in a busy public place and two out of three women aged 16 to […]
Event details Institute for Safe Autonomy Launch Event Join us to celebrate the official opening of the Institute for Safe Autonomy (ISA) at the University of York. We will host a panel discussion with leading experts in the field of AI and robotics including technology journalist Rory Cellan-Jones and Professor John McDermid, a world-leading expert […]
JOIN THE CONVERSATION. BE A PART OF THE CHANGE. How do we keep women safe? The conversation continues. And the loudest voices call for self-defence classes, rape alarms, trackers and a dress code. The conversation needs to change. The voices of women need to be at the centre, but the responsibility and accountability lies elsewhere. […]