Editor of the New Statesman who helped to launch Charter 88, the constitutional reform pressure group

Other Lives: Researcher, writer and campaigner who worked to bring attention to poverty, welfare, housing and environmental justice issues

Other lives: Scholar of Native American literature whose many books celebrated the writing of peoples across the continent

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Other lives: Essex University sociologist who believed that storytelling is central to the way humans act in the world

Other lives: A campaigning trade unionist whose impoverished childhood inspired his career in urban regeneration and neighbourhood renewal

Other lives: University administrator who reached the top of his profession

Vice-chancellor says sorry over independent report’s impact on trans and non-binary staff and students

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Other lives: Leading sociologist and expert on gender and ethnicity inequalities in the labour market who spoke truth to power