New Generation Thinkers 2025 selected to shape programming on BBC Radio 4
Jun 16, 2025
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BBC
Summary
Six of the UK’s most promising early career researchers in the arts and humanities have been chosen as this year’s New Generation Thinkers, a scheme supported by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC. Each year, a nationwide search identifies outstanding academics and helps them bring their research ideas to a broader audience on BBC radio. Selected from hundreds of applicants, these six researchers represent some of the brightest emerging minds in their fields. The New Generation Thinkers will collaborate with four Radio 4 teams across the UK, who work on programmes such as Free Thinking and Thinking Allowed, weekly science programmes, Front Row and Woman’s Hour.
University of Hull academic named BBC New Generation Thinker for 2025
Jun 16, 2025
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University of Hull
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The University of Hull is proud to announce that Dr Stephanie Brown, an early-career researcher in historical criminology, has been named one of the BBC’s New Generation Thinkers for 2025.
Why was Beverley a haven for criminals?
Nov 25, 2024
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Hidden East Yorkshire
Summary
Why was Beverley a haven for criminals? is a programme within the Hidden East Yorkshire series. It explores crime and justice in medieval Beverley. It engages with the exhibition on Sanctuary at Beverley Minster. This is a Radio Humberside programme and it is available on BBC Sounds.
Attacks by students made medieval Oxford a murder hotspot, researchers find
Sep 28, 2023
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It's estimated that the homicide rate in late medieval Oxford was about 60-75 per 100,000 people - 50 times higher than current rates in 21st-century English cities