On Monday 17 of September, Mathew Johnson Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, joined CASIC members to give a talk.

Biography

Matthew Johnson is Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. His research focuses on issues such as Englishness and the relationship between culture, public policy and wellbeing. He has led a participatory project entitled ‘A Cross-cultural Working Group on “Good Culture” and Precariousness’, which involved embedded exchanges between people from Ashington, Northumberland and Aboriginal communities around Brisbane, Australia. Two films covering the project have been produced by Brightmoon Media and are to be screened on the Made In TV network. An archive of video material, interviews and media coverage produced during the project is available at the project YouTube channel. The project was covered on the BBC One Show and Al Jazeera and in The Independent and ABC. He has regularly contributed to BBC Radio and is the BBC Election Night analyst for BBC Radio Cumbria. He is the founding editor of the journal, Global Discourse, the author of Evaluating Culture: Wellbeing, Institutions and Circumstance and articles in journals such as Australian Journal of Political Science, Journal of Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, British Journal of Educational Studies, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Journal of Medical Ethics, Educational Theory, Social Indicators Research and Ethnicities.