Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

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Working in partnership with business to deliver good growth in every part of the UK is a great goal, but how to achieve it? In light of today’s Cabinet statement, I reshare a short piece about the challenge of creating cooperation in the UK economy. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/fosteri...

Rewiring the State – Cabinet Statement (HTML)

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Second paper from our #assetstruggles SI now online: @hadoose.bsky.social makes the crucial point that asset struggles over climate governance not only include climate vulnerable & climate forcing assets – but that climate policy itself often takes an asset form, reconfiguring power. Check it out!

The curse of the beauty spot: Governing the commons of tourist destinations doi.org/10.1111/1467... Paper in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow @kiragk.bsky.social and Waltraud Schelkle

I am looking for a PhD student to support my ERC Consolidator project INEQCHANGE: Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe. ⏰ deadline: 31 May

PhD Project to support ERC Consolidator grant INEQCHANGE Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe led by Prof Sofia Vasilopoulou at King’s College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - PhD Project to support ERC Consolidator grant INEQCHANGE Sub-national economic inequalities and electoral change in Europe led by Prof Sofia Vasilopoulou at King’s College London, listed...

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Last week, we had a very productive series of panels and discussions at the 72nd Political Studies Association Annual International Conference in Oxford!

If you're at #PSA26 on Tuesday, join us for our two @psagreekpol.bsky.social panels. In the first panel, we will discuss work on various topics using Greece as a case. In the second panel, we will focus on the political dynamics unleashed by rural economies in the EU.

PSA Greek Politics Specialist Group@psagreekpol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're coordinating two panels at PSA26 Annual Conference on "Issues of Governance and Accountability: Perspectives from Greece and Cyprus" and "Rural Politics and EU Policies" (jointly with the Italian Politics Specialist Group). Come say hi!

Please read this thread 🧵 about the horrible reality on the ground in Beirut, Lebanon, which is being terrorized by Israel. Hang in there Justin. ❤️

Justin Salhani@justinsalhani.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.

Dear Colleagues, On behalf my co-organisers, I am writing to invite abstract submissions for the ‘Re-centring land conflicts in the post-globalisation order’ mini-conference (MC11) as part of the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux (1-3 July). sase.org/events/2026-... Deadline: December 16th

How to boost productivity in sectors and firms behind the technological frontier? Happy to see my short piece about the role of inter-firm and public-private coordination in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social’s new collection responding to Reeves's 2024 Mais Lecture - doi.org/10.1111/1467... (1/3)

Fostering Coordination to Bridge the UK's Regional Disparities: A Response to Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture

This article discusses different policy approaches to achieving one of the key goals that Rachel Reeves set out in her Mais lecture in 2024: bridging regional inequalities in the UK. If it is agreed ....

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Do you or a PhD student/ early career researcher you know have ideas on a project about the politics of one of the great challenges of our time-climate resilience? What can we learn from Greece and what can Greece learn from the world regarding a resilient green transition? Come work with the GPSG!

The first paper out of my PhD project is out with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society! Are you interested in learning how to foster cooperation among firms and other stakeholders to promote local development and other policy goals? Check it out! academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework

Abstract. Fostering cooperation among local stakeholders is a core aim of place-based policies, and it can generate economic benefits and help restore a sense o

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