University of Hull

Late 1970s, early 1980s, the electronic calculator arrives.

Uh, what at that time was an extraordinarily powerful technology, and people worried in exactly the same way, "Oh my gosh, what's gonna happen to arithmetic?" And what happened, which was really interesting, in the UK was that the, the British government asked this relatively obscure academic, a man called Wilfred Halliday Cockcroft, who was a professor at the University of Hull, to do a report into the state of mathematics education in the UK, and wrote this vast report.

There's this amazing chapter in it where he thinks about the response to the electronic calculator, and he-- and, and part of it's just really realistic.

He says, "Look, we've just got to assume that by the end of the decade, everyone is gonna have access to one of these calculators," which for us today just seems completely obvious.

Um, crikey, we, we started way back in 2013, but our journey with Shopify was, was even before then, so sort of late noughties into early teens, uh, when we first started working with Shopify.

Um, I started out as a, a front-end web developer, uh, a computer science graduate from Hull University.

Um, and then ended up moving into digital marketing, um, after graduating.

Um, and then from there, uh, started to learn about Shopify, um, building websites, lots of people asking about e-commerce, uh, how do we get into e-com? Um, and then asking, I guess after they'd built a website, um, how do we then market that? How do we get that to the, the top of search engine results? So I guess a, a blended, um, history, career, I guess, initially in front-end development and then moving into marketing before setting up Herd.

So, yeah, so after that, were you living in London then? Were you at uni in London?

No, I went to Hull University, actually.

Oh, okay, yeah.

Up in East Yorkshire.

build the team around a special talent there and they've also got over this couple of years they've got some players who are emerging out of the squad you know not all of them go on to be massive names but they go on to have good careers at Tottenham and I'm thinking a bit about people like Paul Miller and Graham Roberts Tony Galvin a lot of the Mark Falco these are all players who make a real contribution and most of them either come through the Spurs youth ranks or they're picked up kind of on or for non-league or

something yeah Galbin's picked up from Gould Town where he was playing whilst studying Russian at Hull University probably one of the few players who have played top flight football and had a degree in Russian But yeah, they pick up.

Graham Roberts came from Weymouth, I think.

Mickey Hazard's there at the time.

At that point in time, you know, sport was just played with associations.

University was not a place for sport, but he had this vision of developing sport whereby people could end up getting sports scholarships, where you had to be good at your academics, be good at sport, play to the highest level, because it was a dream that he had while he was at Hull University.

On the day of his final exam, Hull University were playing in the University Cup final at Edgbaston.

And obviously he was one of the main players and he made the decision that I guess any student would make.

He's got his final exam and the game going on at Edgbaston.

So he went and played at Edgbaston.

He got five wickets.

Hull University won the tournament, but obviously he missed his final exam.

And we started today.

Political scientist Marcel Lewandowski from Hull University says the AFD, at least in part, is right-wing extremists.

Overall, the AFD has been radicalizing since 2015.

And within the AFD, Saxony-Anhalt, according to German intelligence, is a right-wing extremist party that has also to do with the organization overall, that has to do with the organization that are close to the AFD.

So is ESG still useful? And what does responsible business actually look like in practice? To help make sense of this, I'm joined by Justine MacArthur, an independent consultant who helps SMEs and not-for-profit organisations develop their people, culture and HR, and Dane Wadsworth from Jay-Z Flowers.

The three of us met earlier this year as part of a brilliant group of humans brought together through a programme at Hull University Business School.

So together we explored how responsible businesses of all different sorts can improve productivity, resilience and sustainability.

At its heart is a simple idea.

Professor Chetty is the Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Force Migration at the University of Oxford and Head of Religious Studies in the UK.

We also hope to have a conversation with Dr. Reena Arya, Professor Arya is a student or should I say a researcher of critical and cultural theory and head of school of arts and humanities at the University of Hull.

So we hope to be talking about this particular topic.

Moving on to a second main topic is about the rapid change of technology that we are currently experiencing in the form of AI.

Dawn Chatty, and she's the emeritus professor in anthropology and forced migration at the University of Oxford and head of religious studies in the UK.

We also hope to be speaking shortly to Dr. Reena Arya.

She is the Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory and Head of School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Hull.

So she's on the line, if you don't mind.