This article investigates how state-backed institutions facilitate renewed rounds of investment, i.e., recoupling, in industries undergoing technologi…

Thursday 28 May 5:30pm, Landau Forte College Derby DE1 2LF This event will be filmed and made available as a digital recording after the Festival. Available for purchase here. An incisive and engagi...

Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds problem is ‘deeper and more damaging than at any point in the last 30 years’ The UK’s poorest families are getting poorer, with record numbers of people classed as in “very deep poverty” – meaning their annual household incomes fail to cover the cost of food, energy bills and clothing, according to analysis. Although overall relative poverty levels have flatlined in recent years at about 21% of the population, life for those below the breadline has got materially worse as they try to subsist on incomes many thousands of pounds beneath the poverty threshold. Continue reading...

Inga Rademacher (City) presents her working paper: 'Finance and the far right: financial-nationalist politics in an asset-manager world' Discussants: Owen Worth (University of Limerick) and Alen Topl...

Leading European institutions warn of ‘risk of instrumentalisation’ and say they should be allowed to determine their own role in bloc’s agenda

An insightful, in-person event bringing together researchers, organisations, and individuals with lived experience of seeking sanctuary