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Labour Left, the Labour Party Think Tank, is a grassroots organisation developing new public discourses that aim to move Labour towards an ethical socialist position. Professor Beverley Clack works with Labour Left to provide intellectual support for developing Labour Party policy. Her research, which focuses on a common wellbeing, has been used to inform debate in the party around notions of ethical socialism as the basis for policy. She has contributed to public events, including two fringe events at the Labour Party Conferences of 2011 and 2012, collaborated with Mags Waterhouse in producing a blog for the Huffington Post, and contributed a chapter to The Red Book on the theme of ethical socialism.
This case study shows how Alan Walker's internationally acclaimed research on active ageing has led to policy and practice changes locally, nationally and internationally in response to what is widely recognised as the grand societal challenge of population ageing. Walker developed the concept of active ageing which has been adopted by national governments in Quebec and Northern Ireland, national charities and Sheffield City Council, leading in each case to significant policy change which is benefiting older people. As a result of this work Walker was awarded the inaugural ESRC Impact Champion prize in 2013
Professor Michael Sheringham's recent work has explored how thoughtful attention to everyday life can enhance individual and collective experience. One essential strand is city life; another is seeing our individual stories as intertwined with the multiple histories that have shaped our daily environment, and hence seeing memory as an archive. Sheringham's writings, broadcasts and public appearances have brought together creative writers, artists, film-makers, philosophers and social theorists, across the Humanities, Social Sciences, and visual and performing arts. This has fostered a more coherent and integrated debate by professionals and practitioners in these areas, and has shown how academic work in the fields of the everyday, the city and the archive can help individuals look more closely at their own experience, and enrich the quality of their lives.