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End inequality, improve wellbeing, squash the Welfare Reform Bill
23 January 2018What have the 80,000 people who are looking for work done to deserve such a brutal cull of income support payments proposed under compliance changes in the Welfare Reform Bill?

Novel alliances in a divided town: Coal seam gas and fear in Narrabri
11 December 2017This blog was produced as part of our seminar series: Governance and the power of fear.

Beyond fear: Courage
11 December 2017This blog was produced as part of our seminar series: Governance and the power of fear.

Fear and social assistance: How wider social anxieties give way to personified fears
08 December 2017This blog was produced as part of our seminar series: Governance and the power of fear.

Fear, fearlessness and environmental activism
07 December 2017This blog was produced as part of our seminar series: Governance and the power of fear.

Coughs that kill! Fear and global health
05 December 2017This blog was produced as part of our seminar series: Governance and the power of fear.

Fear, cyberspace and public policy – or, why I’m afraid of toothpaste
01 December 2017Fear is a great motivator for activity, but is a poor and at time dangerous tool for policy.

Duterte and the insecurity of the Philippine middle class
30 November 2017It is widely believed that the middle class is an engine for social change. But they can also be the driving force for no change or regression.

Alumni Profile - Seung-Hun Hong
30 November 2017Current role: Principal Researcher, Korean Embassy, London, UK
Graduation year: 2016

Alumni Profile - Jolyon Ford
30 November 2017I undertook a PhD at RegNet on the private sector’s role in the recovery of post-conflict countries – bringing together insights from the fields of human rights, peace-building and regulatory theory.