Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, Zygmunt Bauman has published numerous books, articles and essays on topics such as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism, globalisation and morality and liquid modernity.

He was awarded the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology in 1992, the Theodor W. Adorno Award in 1998 and the Prince of Asturias Award in 2010.