Adrian Brockless

The issue of anthropogenic climate change is never far from the headlines; its current and future impact on our social and economic environments is regularly discussed alongside heart-rending human interest stories and the damage that we (as polluting human beings) are causing to wildlife. This year’s global heat wave with its attendant wildfires and rising food prices has served to further highlight how vulnerable we are to climatic variation. Environmental organisations are

It’s A Strange Situation We’re Part Of! Have you ever thought that the ordinary is extraordinary? – That what you think to be normal is just crazy? If not, I want to show you that what you might think is normal is just plain bizarre! When you are next in a car, train or bus, take a look out of the window. Depending on where you are you might see buildings, trees, people and, perhaps, other cars, trains or buses. This is quite normal. Now take another look and try to imagine t

Education and Teaching: Some Thoughts for Our Policy Makers For me, teaching is not just a job. I had little idea of what I wanted to do when I graduated. However, the commitment that I now have to teaching (in whatever form it might take) is largely answerable to the examples set by a few fine teachers I was lucky enough to encounter at school and university. I owe one of them in particular a huge debt for all he did for me as an undergraduate. When I asked him what I could