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  <title>The social brain</title>
  <link>http://www.thersa.org/about-us/matthews-blog/archives/december-2008/the-social-brain</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Speaking of cultural theory, our cognition project has now been renamed ‘the social brain’. The project is seeking to work with a multi-disciplinary panel of thinkers and researchers to develop a model of human decision making. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:01:11 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>Two gigs today ...</title>
  <link>http://www.thersa.org/about-us/matthews-blog/archives/december-2008/two-gigs-today-...</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ I’ve got two gigs today. One chairing and interviewing at the launch of a new campaign about the needs of people with complex problems organised by Homeless Link, another speaking to the conference knowledge transfer project called Urban Buzz. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:25:37 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>Public services and the impact of the downturn</title>
  <link>http://www.thersa.org/about-us/matthews-blog/archives/december-2008/public-services-and-the-impact-of-the-downturn</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ My working week started early with an interview last night on The Westminster Hour. The discussion topic was the impact on public services of the sharp deceleration in spending planned to start in 2010. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:26:19 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>The other side of 'Greengate'</title>
  <link>http://www.thersa.org/about-us/matthews-blog/archives/december-2008/the-other-side-of-greengate</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ I am always suspicious when the commentariat has a collective spasm, as it has in the Damien Green affair. So I was pleased to hear Vernon Bogdanor on the Today programme arguing that things are just a little bit more complex than implied by the tide of righteous indignation filling our newspapers for the last few days. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:03:05 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>More on the saving communities debate - but from a different perspective</title>
  <link>http://www.thersa.org/about-us/matthews-blog/archives/november-2008/more-on-the-saving-communities-debate---but-from-a-different-perspective</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Here’s another contribution to this debate – albeit from a privileged perspective ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:04:54 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>Urban regeneration and the economic downturn</title>
  <link>http://www.thersa.org/about-us/matthews-blog/archives/november-2008/urban-regeneration-and-the-economic-downturn</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ One of our annual highlights yesterday was the Royal Designers for Industry dinner.  The winner of our Bicentennial Medal and keynote speaker was Tom Bloxham of Urban Splash. When we told Tom he had been given the award we asked him to speak on how urban regeneration might be affected by the economic downturn. That was last July when things seemed difficult but not nearly as bad as they look now. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:36:13 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>Cultural theory happening in practice</title>
  <link>http://www.thersa.org/about-us/matthews-blog/archives/november-2008/cultural-theory-happening-in-practice</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Regular readers will have heard me banging on about cultural theory – the idea that in all organisations there are certain fundamental ways of viewing the world which will be at play: egalitarianism, hierarchy, individualism, and fatalism.  If you haven’t already heard too much, or have never understood what I have been going on about, you might enjoy listening to one of our leading cultural theorists, Michael Thompson, in discussion with John Gray in an excellent Radio 4 programme yesterday. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:52:42 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>The downturn - and the unexploited potential of civil society</title>
  <link>http://www.thersa.org/about-us/matthews-blog/archives/november-2008/the-downturn---and-the-unexploited-potential-of-civil-society</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ I find myself increasingly convinced that the economic downturn is going to be very, very bad; so much so that our lives and our country will never be the same again ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:44:48 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>Where do ideas come from?</title>
  <link>http://www.thersa.org/about-us/matthews-blog/archives/november-2008/where-do-ideas-come-from</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Where do ideas come from? As I tour around the country – yesterday it was Leicester – talking to Fellows this question keeps nagging away at me, ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:10:28 +0000</pubDate> 
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