Sunday 28th August 2011
by Dr. Kevin Adams, Associate Dean for Employer Engagement, University of Bradford
A royal wedding, spending cuts, striking unions – sound familiar?
This was thirty years ago when I was a student at the University of Leeds. Then the UK economy was dominated by mass labour and the nationalised industries such as coal and steel. We had far fewer Universities than the 116 listed in the recent Times league tables and around 15...
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Sunday 28th August 2011
by Ian Bowden, Art Director of Rockstar Games
Look…
…I sat, in the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s darkened Courtyard theatre watching 6 Degrees Below the Horizon (Imitating the Dog theatre company, part of the Transform festival) when I was struck by something I thought rather profound. It wasn’t anything to do with the innovative blend of (sometimes quite explicitly homoerotic) cinema and l...
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Sunday 28th August 2011
by Geoff Shepherd, Founder of The Yorkshire Mafia
It’s been an interesting time since we started the Yorkshire Mafia back in November 2008. Since that time we’ve see terrible natural disasters, social media has helped to affect regime change, the housing market has declined considerably, we’ve had the Comprehensive Spending Review and subsequent cuts, there has been rioting in English towns an...
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Sunday 28th August 2011
by Gary Verity, Chief Exec of Welcome to Yorkshire
The summer season got underway with a bumper crop of days off as Easter rolled into a Royal Wedding and to top it all we enjoyed some unseasonably hot weather. The end result? Potentially the best start to the tourist season in recent memory, which is great news for the thousands of small and medium sized businesses across Yorkshire that rely o...
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Tuesday 9th August 2011
by Dean Hoyle, Chairman of HTFC
I’ve never really been a fan of networking events. I realise they have a purpose, but I’ve always found in the past that they are full of people trying to sell products – whereas nobody is looking to buy! However, I agreed to get involved with the Yorkshire Mafia Conference this year because I believe it offered something different – and I’m de...
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