# Nigel Thrift

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Episode 13. Other people’s money

This episode returns to 1999, the year of dotcom mania to explore how rivers of cash from private investors – other people’s money – changed the shape of finance forever. OPM paid for new infrastructure, made finance mainstream in the media, and helped establish a stock exchange for small company s…

"The money coming to universities will be worth fifteenth percent less...that fifteen percent has to come from somewhere." Nigel Thrift talks to RaW News about a potential rise in tuition fees.

RaW News talks to Vice Chancellor Nigel Thrift about Andrew Hamilton's proposed rise in Russell Group University tuition fees. The full interview with Nigel Thrift will be broadcast on RaW News Insight next week.

Biology, Brain Theory and History - Dr Lisa Blackman

Institute of Historical Research Biology, Brain Theory and History What can Historians learn from biology? Dr Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths) The 'turn to affect' in the social sciences has increasingly involved the incorporation of insights from...

Spaces of Transformation: Spatialised Immunity

Peter Sloterdijk in conversation with Nigel Thrift

Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle

Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through things. Throughout this week he is examining the global economy of the 19th century - of mass production and mass consumption. Today he is with an instrument that first helped Europeans to navigate with precision around the world - a marine chro…

Interview with Professor Nigel Thrift - Vice Chancellor of the University of Warwick

RaW interviewed the Vice Chancellor Professor Nigel Thrift at the beginning of the academic year. We send down our news correspondent Phillip to question the Chancellor about the problems faced by the new development and expansion of the campus and to get his thoughts on the cost of living at Warwi…

Spaces of Transformation: Spatialised Immunity

Peter Sloterdijk in conversation with Nigel Thrift

A conversation with Prince Guma, Astrid Haas, and Patience Mususa on urban Africa

It’s a mashup! GLD's Jeffrey Paller join up with the Ufahamu Africa podcast to talk to Prince Guma, Astrid Haas, and Patience Mususa. Each is an expert on the urbanization of the continent.  The episode responds to Jeffrey’s recent article in This Week in Africa, “Five Trends that will Shape Urban …

Advising government on radioactive waste, with Sir Nigel Thrift (CoRWM)

Professor Adam Boddison in conversation Sir Nigel Thrift, Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, or CoRWM. CoRWM’s role, as Sir Nigel describes it, is to give independent scientific and technical advice to UK Government on all aspects of the management of radioactive waste. Sir N…

The Mediated City 10 (2025 New Release): Sentient Cities

Software and networked devices are highly pervasive in the city, perhaps more than we tend to realise, and their consequences as urban media are becoming more apparent. The relatively sudden arrival of new, easy-to-use tools and streamlined interfaces sold under the broad banner of ‘AI’ may may be …