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The Great Debate Sponsors and Funders


The Great Debate would like to thank the following organisations who have sponsored or funded previous events and projects.

Royal Academy of Engineering
funded ETUDE: Engineering Transmission Using Deliverative Events [2013]; and Sustained Engagement [2011-12]

Economic and Social Research Council

Economic and Social Research Council
funded: Whatever Happened to Equality? [2012]; The Great Debate: Facing the Future [2011]; Getting Real About Climate Change [2010]; Don’t Shout at the Telly, Change What's on it! [2009]; Developing World Challenges [2008]; and DSE3: Film Training with a Global Edge [2007]

Northumbria University

Northumbria University
sponsored Whatever Happened to Equality? [2012]; The Challenges of Sustainable Transport [2012]; Economic Growth: Bane or Boon? [2010]; The Great Sustainable Energy Debate 2008 and The Great Debate Human Nature Series 2008 (consisting of Progress of the Human Mind; Selfish Genes, Sex, and Sanity; Unnoticed Connections; and Agents of Change? Darwinian Thought and Theories of Human Nature).

THE DULVERTON TRUST

The Dulverton Trust
co-funded great northern youth voices [2012]

Newcastle University

Newcastle University
sponsored The Great Infrastructure Debate [2012]; Facing the Future [2011]; Visions for the Future of the City [2011]; The Future of Energy for the North East [2011]; Developing World Challenges [2008]; The Great Debate: Post-Territorial Governance and Anti-politics [2006]; Politics of Fear: An Audience with Frank Furedi [2006]; Science and the Human Potential [2006]; and the second conference on Development, Sustainability and Environment (DSE2) [2005] and funded The Great Debate School Debating Competition 2011;

Big Lottery Funded

Big Lottery Fund
sponsored great northern youth voices [2011]

The Policy Press

The Policy Press
sponsored the filming of Economic Growth: Bane or Boon? [2010] and Limits to Growth in the 21st Century [2010]

RCE North East

RCE North East
sponsored Living in a Changing World [2010] and The Great Debate Green Phoenix Festival programme [2010]

Green Phoenix Festival

Green Phoenix Festival / Patchwork Planet Productions
sponsored The Great Debate Green Phoenix Festival programme [2010]

Mediabox

Mediabox funded Living in a Changing World [2010]

Newcastle Science Festival 2010

Newcastle Science Festival
sponsored: Getting Real About Climate Change [2010], Development, Sustainability and Environment 3 [2007], Science and the Human Potential [2006], The Great Energy Debate [2006], The Nature of Being Human [2005], The Great Debate: Being Human [2005], Whatever Happened to the Subject? [2004], Playing it Safe: Science and the Risk Society [2004], and Of Blank Slates and Zombies [2004]

Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press
sponsored Agents of Change? Darwinian Thought and Theories of Human Nature [2008]

Atlantic Books

Atlantic Books
sponsored: The Great Debate: Reprogramming Life [2006]

Dewjoc Architects

Dewjoc Architects
sponsored: The Great Housing Debate [2006]

The RSA

RSA
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
sponsored The Great Debate: Genes, Memes, Minds [2004] and the second conference on Development, Sustainability and Environment (DSE2) [2005]

Peer Review for European Sustainable Urban Development

PRESUD
sponsored the first conference on Development, Sustainability and Environmentalism [2003]

The WellRead Bookshop

The Well Read Bookshop
University of Northumbria, 0191 227 3400
sponsored The Great Debate: Should we censor the Internet? [2002]

Hodder Headline

Hodder and Stoughton
sponsored The Great Debate: Should we censor the Internet? [2002]

Polity Press
sponsored The Great Debate: Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy [2001]

Weidenfeld and Nicolson
sponsored The Great Debate: Evolution, Human Nature and Autonomy [2001]

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