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The latest Edition of the What Works newsletter for February 2017 is out! Click here to read more and sign up for future editions.

Congratulations to Susanna White who has been nominated for Best Director for Our Kind Of Traitor at the prestigious annual National Film Awards UK taking place on the 29th of March 2017. Furthermore, The National Film Academy has announced that  Our Kind of Traitor has been nominated in a further five categories:  Best British Film Best Independent Feature…

Media Alert: A Crowdfunded book of topical essays We are thrilled to announce that award-winning Bristol-based author Nikesh Shukla is collaborating with the team of young journalists behind Watershed’s Rife Magazine on their very own book! And we need your help to get this brilliant idea off the ground… Against the tumultuous backdrop of 2017,…

Tuesday 7 February 2017, London UK: A new report out today from drug policy think tank, Volteface, Black Sheep: An Investigation into Existing Support for Problematic Cannabis Use, reveals that a legal regulated market would better support people experiencing problematic cannabis use as the sector is lacking a clear, effective strategy for linking people into…

MEDIA ALERT 6 February 2017 PRESS CONFERENCE, TUESDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2017: FORMER MINEWORKERS, CAREGIVERS AND CHILDREN SPEAK OUT ON THE EFFECTS OF SILICOSIS From today, 6th of February 2017, the City of Cape Town will host the largest conference dedicated to the capitalisation and development of mining interests in Africa. The Investing In African Mining Indaba…

“Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights” Hillary Clinton On November 25, 1960, three sisters, Patria Mercedes Mirabal, María Argentina Minerva Mirabal and Antonia María Teresa Mirabal, were assassinated in the Dominican Republic on the orders of the Dominican ruler, Rafael Trujillo. The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against…

What do Jose Ramos-Horta, Oscar Isaac and Victoria Barrett all agree on? That millennials have the biggest stake in our future and their voices need to be heard when carbon emission caps are decided.  At the COP22 Global Climate Change Conference, a new eco-socio movement, The Future Is Ours, was launched. Backed by a seasoned select of academic…

The winners of the AHRC ‘Research In Film’ Awards have been announced at a special ceremony at the home of British film, BAFTA and the Ladbury team were there to join in the celebrations. Hundreds of films were submitted for the Awards in five categories. A panel of expert judges helped to decide the shortlisted…

A new report from the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism reveals that although millennials will soon be in control of $30 trillion through wealth transfer, they are fraught with comparative anxiety as they are made persistently aware, through social media, of their peers’ successes. The report, The Millennial Challenge for Inclusive Capitalism, produced by Impact Squared…

Last week, the Ladbury team sped up to Cambridge to meet a rather remarkable feline character, who’s fast becoming the talk of Cambridgeshire county. Cinder the cat is the latest digital delight from design studio Umbrellium Spawned from the searingly brilliant mind of creator Usman Haque, founding partner of Umbrellium, Cinder the cat embodies all…

  As society’s need and desire for technology continues to evolve and expand, robots will inevitably play an ever-increasing role in our lives. Being There is a four-year project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which brought together five collaborative teams of researchers from the Universities of Exeter, Bath, Oxford, Cambridge…