Category archives for Media
At 1pm today, Genevieve Le Baron will take place in a live Guardian web chat on ‘how to tackle slavery in supply chains’ with Beate Andrees (Head of the Special Action Programme to combat forced labour, International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland), Dan Viederman (Chief Executive, Verité, Amherst, US), Andrew Wallis (Chief Executive, Unseen, Bristol, UK), Neill Wilkins (Migration Programme Manager, … Continue reading →
5 December 2013 by Sarah Boswell
Categories: Media
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Tags: Amherst, and human trafficking, Andrew Wallis (Chief Executive, Anti-Slavery International, Beate Andrees (Head of the Special Action Programme to combat forced labour, Bristol, Chichester, Dan Viederman (Chief Executive, forced labour, Geneva, Genevieve Le Baron, International Labour Organisation, London, Neill Wilkins (Migration Programme Manager, Rachel Phillips Rigby (office of child labour, slavery, supply chains, Switzerland), the Guardian, The Institute of Human Rights and Business, U.S. Department of Labour, UK, Unseen, US, USA) and Aidan McQuade (Director, Verité, Washington D.C.
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We’re thrilled to see another article in the press about SPERI Paper No.6 – The UK’s Innovation Deficit and How to Repair it (PDF 1131KB) by Professor Richard Jones. We believe this paper, which talks about the poor UK investment in research and innovation, provides an important warning for the future of the UK economy, and this is why we are especially pleased to see that … Continue reading →
4 December 2013 by Sarah Boswell
Categories: Media, Publications
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Tags: Aditya Chakrabortty, graphene, GUARDIAN, GUARDIAN SCIENCE, Innovation, Professor Richard Jones, SPERI Paper, technology, The UK's innovation deficit and how to repair it
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A report by Genevieve Le Baron was published this week (on Monday 18th November) on the business of forced labour in the UK’s food, construction and cannabis industries by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The paper entitled Forced Labour’s Business Models & Supply Chains was launched yesterday at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation office in London, and has generated a wealth of publicity already. Genevieve … Continue reading →
20 November 2013 by Sarah Boswell
Categories: Media, Publications, Research Fellows
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Tags: Aiden McQuade, Andrew Crane, Anti-Slavery International, David Arkless, forced labour, Forced Labour's Business Models & Supply Chains, Genevieve Le Baron, Jean Allain, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, JRF, slavery, supply chains
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It may be the summer holidays but things at SPERI are still all go. On Tuesday 6 August Scott Lavery. SPERI PhD student, spoke live on BBC Radio Sheffield about the differences between the British and German economies, and what we can learn from the German industrial strategy. Following the recent announcement by Mark Carney on ‘forward guidance’ – Jeremy Green, SPERI Research … Continue reading →
8 August 2013 by Sarah Boswell
Categories: Media
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Tags: Bank of England, BBC Radio Sheffield, Craig Berry, Forward Guidance, Jeremy Green, Mark Carney, New Statesman, Scott Lavery
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Richard Murphy (Tax Research UK) and Andrew Baker (SPERI Honorary Research Fellow and Reader in Political Economy at Queen’s University of Belfast) recently blogged for SPERI Comment about the planned cut in corporation tax in Northern Ireland. Following the two blogs Corporation tax in Northern Ireland: the policy debate and Corporation tax in Northern Ireland: the policy debate, Richard debated the issue passionately on … Continue reading →
27 March 2013 by Sarah Boswell
Categories: Media
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Tags: Andrew Baker, Corporation tax, Northern Ireland, Richard Murphy, Stephen Nolan Show, Tax Research UK
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It’s been a busy week for Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute. On 23 January, Andrew Gamble (University of Cambridge and Chair of SPERI’s International Advisory Board) took part in a phone in on the Toby Foster at Breakfast show on BBC Radio Sheffield, providing expertise on the possibility of a EU referendum in the hours leading up to David Cameron’s … Continue reading →
25 January 2013 by Sarah Boswell
Categories: Colin Hay, International Advisory Board, Media
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Tags: Andrew Gamble, BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio Sheffield, colin hay, Dan Silver, David Willetts, the Guardian, University of Cambridge
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An interview with Colin Hay will feature on BBC Radio Sheffield on the morning of Thursday 15 March as part of their focus on the economy this week , so don’t forget to listen in! If you miss it – you can catch it on the BBC iPlayer on their website. Tony Payne has had a Spanish edition of his 2010 Development book … Continue reading →
14 March 2012 by Sarah Boswell
Categories: Co-directors, Colin Hay, Media, Photos, Publications, Studentships, Tony Payne, Vacancies
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Tags: Alianza Editorial, colin hay, desarrollo, Development, radio sheffield, tony payne
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If you didn’t manage to get a ticket for the SPERI Inaugural Lecture by Rt Hon Ed Miliband last week do not despair! You can watch his full speech in this video: Footage of the lecture was also shown on the Sunday Politics Show, Sky News and Look North, with the launch covered by many major news sources such as … Continue reading →
15 February 2012 by Sarah Boswell
Categories: Events, Media, Miliband lecture 2012, Photos, Video
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Tags: ed miliband, media coverage, Sheffield, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, Sheffield University, SPERI, the Octogan
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