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Many of our teaching academics are also “research active” and participate in industry-renowned research and publication outside of the University’s specialist centres. This may be in the form of collaborations with partner institutions or fellow academics, independent works, or particpating in large research groups.

Our academics are known for their contributions to the various canons of their specialisms, and are often invited to be key notes speakers at conferences around the world.

To read more about the research activities of Buckingham’s staff, please visit our Staff Directory to view our academics and their work.

The University of Buckingham Press publishes authoritative, independent research and academic works by Buckingham staff and others in both journals and books.

Stephen Barber, Tragedy of Riches

This book makes a passionate case that instead of accepting a status quo of dysfunctional modern economics we must now create a new, political settlement prepared to tackle the great issues of our age before it is too late.
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John Blundell, Ladies for Liberty – Women who made a difference in American history

The women portrayed in these pages believed that self-determination is a virtue and that individuals should be alowed to pursue their own ends free from the coercion of others. Read more >

Junie Tong, Finance and Society in 21st Century China

Dr Junie T. Tong reflects on the role of banking and finance in China. She adopts a critical perspective that views the societal as well as economic functioning of banking and finance. Read more >

Records of Buckinghamshire 51 (2011)

The new volume of Records includes reports on archaeological investigations in Milton Keynes, Aylesbury and South Bucks. There are several articles on medieval Buckinghamshire, including one which looks at the romanesque doorway of Leckhampstead church. Read more >

Winslow Manor Court Books

Winslow, with Little Horwood and Granborough, was an outlying manor of St Albans Abbey. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the monks of St Albans kept careful records in Latin of how much they extracted from the farmers, traders, craftsmen, widows and orphans. Read more >

Anthony Crawforth, The Butterfly Hunter. The Life of Henry Walter Bates

Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) is remembered today as the author of A Naturalist on the River Amazon, a science travel book that, when it was first published in 1863, immediately became a bestseller. Tony Crawforth’s new book seeks to rank him as a philosophical observer, a systematic writer, and great Victorian field naturalist.

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