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21 May 2025
Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"
authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray
is now available free online: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Clearly, time to post this link again ... we argue electricity should be a basic human right and should be considered part of a social minimum. (free access)
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OnlineFirst - "Interfaces of precarity and the networks of precarious lifeworlds: Experiences of housing, social supports, and work in youth homelessness" by Benjamin Owens:
#precariouswork #homelessness #youth #housinginsecurity #labourgeography
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A fabulous initiative. Apply!
📢 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: USF International Fellowships for urban scholars from the Global South. Deadline 6th July 2026. Read more & apply to this grant funding here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/f…
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18 Dec 2025
Free to download -- Handbook of Labour Geography (Andy Herrod editor).
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20 Nov 2025
It was a real pleasure to write a chapter in the Handbook of Labour Geography. The editor, Andy Herod, was a joy to work with and the collection itself looks great.
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40 years after the miners' strike, austerity still haunts the UK’s coalfields.
New RSA blog by David Etherington, @_mia_gray & Lisa Buckner shows £32.6bn cut from these communities since 2010. Local gov gap now: £447M.
Read: bit.ly/40d9jSm
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19 Jun 2025
Imagine what could be done with this revenue.
19 Jun 2025
🚨BREAKING
HMRC missed out on around £47bn in taxes — from errors, avoidance and evasion— according to its annual "Tax Gap" report, released today.
Here's why that is likely an underestimate, and why the real gap is likely to keep on growing...
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11 Jun 2025
I wish the media cared as much about the 131k staff vacancies in social care as they do about the 0.3% of millionaires who left the UK.
Imagine all those column inches dedicated to thinking about how we tackle chronic low pay & insecure work in the sector taxjustice.net/press/million…
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28 May 2025
Another amazing publication!! Well done Coco Huggins and @_mia_gray for this piece, which is so important in light of the ongoing challenges of austerity. @UoBCHASM, will be of particular interest for your researchers.
21 May 2025
Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"
authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray
is now available free online: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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21 May 2025
Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"
authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray
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21 May 2025
We argue:
•Place-based solidarity helps us understand how a shared commitment to place can keep services running under austerity.
•Place-based solidarity has tensions and limits. It is not currently a sustainable solution to the retreat of the state.
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22 Aug 2024
What is local government financialisation? Four empirical channels to clarify the roles of local government debates paper by @HaHasenberger
ow.ly/LteY50T3qEg
#OpenAccess #financialisation #LocalGovernment
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28 Oct 2024
New analysis Andy Pike and I published on Friday revealed that authorities are forecasting a £9.3 billion deficit by 2026-27. Based on their Medium Term Financial Strategy, only 14 authorities estimate they'll balance their budget:
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26 Oct 2024
My @guardian story: More than 1m of the UK's poorest households to get £420 budget boost in universal credit change theguardian.com/society/2024…
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26 Oct 2024
Positive first step to tackling deep poverty in this Budget. Debt deductions from Universal Credit are a key driver of food bank need & this will ease the burden. Also great to see government frame this as a first step on a longer journey. 1/3
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25 Oct 2024
“I’m trying to think of any possible justification for paying William, a 42-year old public servant, more than £23m and of course there is none. If you question it, the whole edifice crumbles” My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
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24 Oct 2024
'Utterly unsustainable': London councils now spend £4million a day on housing homeless driving some towards bankruptcy
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