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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Brings a whole new meaning to "Bread & Roses"! Speaking of, a small group of us have been coming together for c2yrs as the Bread & Roses Collective to think about radical care and activism in an unequal world. We have a logo and blurb: @austerityalters site will be updated soon with more info 🍞🌹

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Dr Kate Haddow @khaddow93.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Just published this article 🥳. Research on food aid is always important but there is more to food aid thank food banks. As seen in this paper. Please share my article 🙏 or give it a 👍. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Dead chuffed to say that @austerityalters.bsky.social has been funded for another 3yrs (2026-29) with a focus on co-creating spaces, stories & solidarities. Think creative sharing, collective future-making, solidarity infrastructure and more. Will share further details soon x

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Healthier Futures at the University of Manchester @healthierfutures.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This time last week we were delighted to support the @austerityalters.bsky.social Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a brilliant lunch meeting for communities, practitioners & @manchester.ac.uk peeps to explore how to act together on vital anti-poverty ambitions #fairerhealthforall #healthierfuturesuom

Picture of a table at an event, with a jigsaw graphic showing the interconnected ways in which groups of people can effectively communicate and ensure that all perspectives are valued.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Last week we had our Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a lunch event bringing together community, policy+uni folk in Manchester. Together we explored how to galvanise A-P change, working collectively+creatively. Here's our winning create plate by Terri Lucas! If you want to know more, get in touch! 🍽🖍

A photograph of a paper plate with colourful annotated drawings. It includes an ear (listening), football pitch (left-field ideas) and a heart (compassion).

Photograph of a tablecloth featuring our co-designed Anti-Poverty research framework, a colourful image with 11 values designed into a jigsaw. The image is surrounded by pens, pencils and coffee cups. An accessible version of the framework can be found on our website.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Tomorrow we'll be in Neuchâtel presenting some emerging ideas on young people, migration and housing in the context of austerity. Looking forward to the other talks and generating new ideas 💡

Screenshot of a slide that reads "Young migrants, austerity and housing: How austerity alters lives and futures across Europe. Prof. Sarah Marie Hall, University of Manchester. (Counter) Narratives on Migration in Times of Crisis, Wednesday 11th June 2025". The text is while on a grey background that is an illustrated jigsaw.

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This conference looks like just the ticket: A Feminist Politics of Radical Hope in Times of Oppression. And it's in Liverpool! See you there? X

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This arrived the other day! Paperback! Available from 20th of this month and much more affordable at £28.99. 30 brilliant chapters on contemporary economic geographies, and all written by female and non-binary authors.

Sarah's hand holding a copy of the co-edited book 'Contemporary Economic Geographies' in paperback. With Jennifer Johns.

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Amy Pennay @amypennay.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

New blog series alert - how austerity alters disabled people's lives + futures. -Open to all: researchers, activitists, lived experts. -Your blog will be received with care + consideration. -You'll be supported to publication on our website & we will promote it on social media and our news list. ✊️🩷

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'

Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Call for blogs

Series Three – How austerity alters disabled people’s lives and futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, and practice

Do you work at the intersection of disability and austerity? Do you have lived and/or research/policy-based experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series which focuses on the ways austerity shapes and changes disabled people’s lives and futures, and we want to hear from you!

If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to austerityalters@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’. If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know.

We approach disability inclusively and broadly. Please see post thread for full text details.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We are very pleased to share the final blog of series 2 by Prof. John H. McKendrick, on 'Futility and necessity: reflecting on an academic life researching poverty'. Thank you for your brilliant, reflective contribution to the series. To read John's blog, see below for the link.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This past year, we've been working closely with 3 ace community partners to co-create anti-poverty strategies in Manchester. Our framework for how to work together & toolkit for policy-makers are now on our website: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr... Please use and share widely!

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Laura Fenton @soc-researcher.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Austerity policies have a huge impact on young adults in Europe, including their sense of the future. Adopting a life-course perspective, we explore how place-based experiences of austerity shape temporalities and normative ideas of life transitions, introducing the concept of 'foreclosed futures'.

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Come and say hello on the 19th!

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Back on the other place, I developed a thread about how pieces on child poverty were regularly illustrated with images of children playing in their neighbourhoods, yet play (deprivation) rarely features in mainstream discussions of child poverty. Here’s another example.

A screenshot of a Guardian article about child poverty illustrated by an image of a child scooting along the pavement.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Anyone interested in public funding cuts and council service crises - housing, SEND, care services etc: Kate Belgrave, who's been covering this stuff longer than me, has launched a podcast focused on how cuts affect people... aptly called Who Voted For This: whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/2414550

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Who voted for this

Interviews with people dealing with housing problems and welfare cuts. Dislike for those who let it all happen.Kate Belgrave Journalist and bloggerHomepage photos courtesy of Latoya, the mother of the...

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Heather Mew @heathermew.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Direct action works, and there is strength in community solidarity! I’d urge everyone to consider joining their local @acornunion.bsky.social, and I’m happy to chat all things Newcastle if anyone has questions. www.acorntheunion.org.uk/join

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Prof Gráinne McKeever @mckeevergrainne.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A new PhD opportunity just landed with our good friends @childrensrightsqub.bsky.social who we've been working with alongside @savethechildrenni.bsky.social to understand the impact of #SocialSecurity on children's experiences of poverty. It's time to hear from children themselves: t.co/BtYhyM91Ms

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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Of House and Immigrants In this contribution to the upcoming ISRF Bulletin 31, Theresa Audrey O. Esteban reflects on how post-war #Rotterdam's urban geography and political climate shifted in response to changing #migration patterns. isrf.org/blog/of-hous...

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Of House and Immigrants

In this contribution to Bulletin 31, Theresa Audrey O. Esteban reflects on how post-war Rotterdam's urban geography and political climate shifted in response to changing migration patterns.

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Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

📢 FINAL CALL Gender and Justice seeks a suitably qualified senior feminist academic to join the existing team as Co-editor-in-chief. Details 👇@ bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen... @sharronfitz.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @stinewadrian.bsky.social

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 28/01/2025

What’s it like to be 25 in Ireland today? 70% live at home with their parents, CSO finds Read more: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

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Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🌸 My project has a home! 🌸 🔎 Everyday social reproduction, life stories, intimate spaces, relationships and communities. Read more on the project's aims, methodology and outputs and stay updated on news ⤵️ urbancountertopographies.wordpress.com

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A second piece out today in The Big Issue by @hannahjtw.bsky.social ft yours truly, continuing to push the government & DWP about austerity + winter fuel cuts. ✊️ @austerityalters.bsky.social www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

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DWP winter fuel cuts forcing pensioners to choose between heating and eating

The DWP is allowing poverty to “seep into every part of people’s lives”, experts have said, due to Labour's cuts to the winter fuel payment.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Fabulous to see this blog post on loneliness, austerity and young people from my former PhD students @drjessiekelly.bsky.social on the @austerityalters.bsky.social site. Well worth a read! (And lots of other interesting, related posts on there too)

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Jessie Kelly-Baxter @drjessiekelly.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr... Thx to the @austerityalters.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this important series. Proud to have my blog “There’s nothing concrete around here”; Loneliness and (in)security in austere times’ nestled among some thought-provoking work.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Second is a new @methodsMcr podcast episode about our Oral Histories and Futures method, ft team members @soc_researcher and @e_ackerley which you can listen to here: open.spotify.com/episode/2ubE... Thanks to all those who have supported these outputs! [2/2]

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Episode 3: Oral Histories and Futures with Dr Elizabeth Ackerley and Dr Laura Fenton

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

We've got two new free resources to share from our project! First is a guide on Researching Austerity published by @RGS_IBG You can download as a PDF here [1/2]

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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Check out this guide to 'researching austerity' by the great @austerityalters.bsky.social team. This is the second in the series of RGS-IBG guides to doing research into specific topics or areas of research: cdn-rgs-media-prod.azureedge.net/mfbbplgl/res...

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Thanks to everyone who has come to visit the exhibition today! We've enjoyed sharing stories of future lives and austerity and listening to people's responses. You can visit the whole exhibition here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...

Poster on the wall and tablet on a table both advertising the exhibition

Three people stood in a row listening to the exhibition on three tablet screens.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

At our symposium this week we launched our Future Lives and Austerity digital exhibition. Ft. oral stories, participatory materials and artistic depictions, you can view the whole (multi-lingual) exhibition here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...

Future Lives and Austerity: A Digital Exhibition.
Words in the middle surrounded by a colourful jigsaw pattern.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

THANK YOU! To everyone who engaged with us/our symposium today. You're all brilliant. Now, we rest and recharge. In solidarity, the AALC team xxx

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

We have almost 200 people joining us next week online and via our 4 hybrid hubs! Sign up is free and we still have room. 🥳 But please remember that spaces on the digital zine-making session led by Inspire Women Oldham and Dr Matina_Kapsali are limited. Email Poppy if you want to attend!

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

If you've signed up to our symposium and want to register for the online zine-making workshop (12:00-13:10 BST), exploring the 'What if's' & 'Imagine if's' of austerity with Matina Kapsali and Inspire Women Oldham, pls email poppy.budworth@manchester.ac.uk. Places are limited!💻🎨💭

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Erin Simmons @erinsimmons.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Very excited to hear the many contributions to this symposium on future lives and austerity! Communities of practice across activism, arts, academics... #AALCSymposium

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

FYI - we are also supporting 4 in-person hubs across Europe, 2 of which still have spaces (Newcastle UK and Rome Italy). Get in touch if you want to know more x

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Have you signed up to our symposium yet? Places going fast - it'll be friendly and interesting, we promise! 😊 Also, no pressure to attend the whole day. 🧡 Sign up + you'll get the full programme + joining info: shorturl.at/Hih5M

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Online International Symposium: Future Lives and Austerity

Join us on 16th October 2024 for the Austerity and Altered Life-Courses Online Symposium: Future Lives and Austerity.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Hi 👋 We are excited to share a taster schedule for our online international symposium, 'Future Lives and Austerity', which takes place on 16th October 2024. Take a look below and/or email for more details ⬇️ Tickets are available here: shorturl.at/Hih5M 💭🎭💻

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Online International Symposium: Future Lives and Austerity

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

At our Yorkshire away days, we're collaging and chatting about positive working with researchers in a team. We're calling this activity 'Dear PI...' Our guide will follow!

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Sign up to our 'Future Lives + Austerity' online symposium! Ft. sessions on community futures, feminist archiving, plays/playwrights, ecr lightning talks, incl. digital zine making! 💻🎧💬🖍📝🎨🖼 Schedule to be released soon, but you can sign up here now: shorturl.at/Hih5M

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

📢CfP: "young people, future lives, and austerity" - lightning talks with early career researchers. Calling ECRs, we want to hear about your work at our online symposium on 16th October. Submit a 250-word abstract by 24/09/24 via email. See below for details #AALCSymposium

Young people, future lives, and austerity: ECR Lightning Talks
16th October 2024, 14:00-15:10 (BST) 15:00– 16:10 (CET)
On 16th October 2024 the Austerity and Altered Life-Courses team are hosting an online international symposium, on the theme of ‘Future Lives and Austerity’.This is a lightning talk panel, where presenters talk for 5-7 minutes about their research, work, and/or expertise related to the theme of the session, followed by an interactive Q&A and discussion. The panel is designed for ECRs (incl. academic, community, policy, charity, activist) in the field of young people, future lives, and austerity, to present their work. If you are an early career researcher and would like to be part of this lightning talk panel, please send a 250-word abstract to Poppy Budworth, poppy.budworth@manchester.ac.uk, by 24th September 2024 (11:59pm BST). Please include the title of your presentation, your affiliation, and your email address. Pls present in English. Contact Poppy with any qs.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

It's been a busy month for us - fieldwork, Oral Histories + Futures workshops, and planning creative outputs. At these busy points, we value taking time to listen + learn from others on shared research interests. Our next free online seminar on 'Austerity's Histories' is today, details in QP!

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Reminder of our next online seminar on Austerity's Histories. This coming Wednesday, with times and joining info in the link below. www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Reminder of our two upcoming events with the links to join online: 1. Austerity's Histories, 25 October 2023, 2pm UK time: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... 2. Creative Data Analysis, 7 November 2023, 1.30pm UK time: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... See you there! 💻💡✊️

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