Mike Makin-Waite worked as a local government officer in northwest England for over thirty years. He is the author of On Burnley Road: Class, race and politics in a northern English town (2021). Mike is now Assistant Director of Programmes for Belong: The cohesion and integration network, a non-governmental organisation based in Manchester which works for a more connected, less divided society. 

You can find them in: New Perspectives on Deindustrialization “On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town” 39:30-48:36