Speaker
Professor Richard Wilkinson
Visiting Professor at the University of York
Biography
Richard studied economic history and the philosophy of science at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology. Now professor emeritus, his research drew attention to health inequalities and then to the role of income and income inequality as determinants of health. His books were the subject of two documentary films – The Great Leveller (1996) and The Divide (2016). The Spirit Level, (with Kate Pickett) published in 24 languages, won the 2011 Political Studies Association Publication of the Year Award and the 2010 Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize. His two TED talks have been watched 5 million and 2 million times. Richard received Solidar’s Silver Rose Award, the Irish Cancer Society’s Charles Cully Memorial medal, and was The Australian Society for Medical Research’s medallist of the year in 2017.