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Craig Berry wins prestigious British Academy rising star award
SPERI is delighted to announce that our deputy director Craig Berry has won a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award. These awards are made to distinguished early career academics to enable engagement in career development through interdisciplinary projects. Craig’s award builds upon his research on UK industrial strategy, and work on the Industrial Strategy Commission (which was nominated last week … Continue reading
SPERI’s Industrial Strategy Commission nominated for major award
We are delighted to report that the Industrial Strategy Commission, featuring SPERI’s deputy director Dr Craig Berry and associate fellow Professor Richard Jones, has been nominated for a prestigious Guardian University Award. SPERI established the Industrial Strategy Commission in partnership with policy@manchester (University of Manchester) in early 2017. Craig and Richard were joined by Professor Diane Coyle and Professor Andrew … Continue reading
Craig Berry and Arianna Giovannini’s book on Northern economic development
SPERI is delighted to report that Developing England’s North: The Political Economy of the Northern Powerhouse, edited by our deputy director Craig Berry and honorary research fellow (and senior lecturer at De Montfort University) Arianna Giovannini, has been published by Palgrave. This collection explores the politics of local economic development in Northern England. It starts from the premise that socio-economic … Continue reading
SPERI Industrial Strategy Commissioners react to government white paper
The government’s white paper on Industrial Strategy was published today (27 November 2017). Earlier this month the Industrial Strategy Commission, an independent joint initiative by Policy@Manchester at The University of Manchester and SPERI published its Final Report. Dr Craig Berry, Deputy Director of SPERI, and Professor Richard Jones, SPERI Associate Fellow and Professor of Physics, served as members of the Commission and … Continue reading
The Coming Crisis – New SPERI book edited by Colin Hay and Tom Hunt published
SPERI is delighted to announce the publication of The Coming Crisis, edited by our Director Colin Hay and Policy Research Officer Tom Hunt. Nearly ten years on from the global financial crisis of 2008, The Coming Crisis seeks to provide a timely warning as to the dangers still present and building in the global economic system. The new book, published … Continue reading
SPERI hosts Finance Curse Workshop with the Tax Justice Network and Copenhagen Business School
On Thursday 16-17 November SPERI will host a workshop at Halifax Hall, Sheffield, on the phenomenon and concept of the ‘finance curse’. The workshop has been organised in collaboration with the Tax Justice Network (TJN), the leading global tax campaign organisation, and the ENLIGHTEN Horizon 2020 programme at the Copenhagen Business School. The workshop has been organised by Andrew Baker (SPERI, … Continue reading
SPERI 2018 Conference: 2nd Call for Proposals
Political Economy Ten Years After the Crisis Halifax Hall, University of Sheffield 2-4 July 2018 The SPERI Conference is becoming increasingly recognised as a key forum for debating major contemporary issues in political economy in new and challenging ways. It takes place in Halifax Hall in a leafy part of Sheffield and always attracts a range of leading scholars, doctoral … Continue reading
Tackling Insecure Work: political actions from around the world –new SPERI report for GMB
‘Tackling Insecure Work: political actions from around the world’ a new report by SPERI for the GMB trade union has been published today (September 25th) The new report by Tom Hunt and Sean McDaniel sets out a range of examples of how and where political action is being taken around the world to tackle different forms of insecure work and … Continue reading
How to localise pension investment and support local economies – new SPERI research project
People throughout the UK create a large amount of investable capital through saving for a pension. Yet this capital is rarely retained in the areas they live and work in. SPERI is embarking on a major new research project funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust which will examine localising pension investments. The project, led by Dr Craig Berry, will assess … Continue reading
New book on ‘depoliticization’ featuring SPERI researchers
We are pleased to report that Anti-politics, Depoliticization and Governance – edited by SPERI director Colin Hay, with Paul Fawcett, Matthew Flinders and Matthew Wood will be published by Oxford University Press on 7 September 2017. The book examines the relationship between moves towards depoliticization and the apparent rise of political disaffection within broader governance process. It brings together a … Continue reading
Official launch of the PSA political economy group in Cambridge
SPERI is delighted to report that the Political Studies Association’s British and Comparative Political Economy Specialist Group will be formally launched in September. The group is convened by SPERI’s deputy director Craig Berry, and honorary fellow Jeremy Green. The group will hold its inaugural workshop at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday 13th September. More information about the workshop, which … Continue reading
The declining salience of ‘saving’ in British politics | New SPERI brief
A new report published today by SPERI finds that the salience of the concept of ‘savings’ in British political discourse appears to have declined. In this new SPERI British Political Econony Brief, Craig Berry explores how savers and the saving process have been discussed in the election manifestos of the Conservative Party and the Labour Party since 2005, up to the … Continue reading
Tony Payne stands down as SPERI Director
Today is Tony Payne’s final day as Co-Director of SPERI. He is retiring from this position, but will retain an ongoing role in SPERI in the future as a Professorial Fellow. Tony was the founding Co-Director of SPERI with Colin Hay and has led SPERI with Colin since we were established in 2012. In his new Professorial Fellow role Tony … Continue reading
SPERI celebrates its fifth anniversary at the Bank of England
SPERI was delighted to celebrate its fifth anniversary yesterday (Wednesday 12 July 2017) with an event and reception at the Bank of England. The Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) was launched at the University of Sheffield in 2012 to research the political and economic issues posed by the global financial crisis. Since then, we have published a huge number … Continue reading
Professor Martin Jones appointed Honorary Research Fellow at SPERI
We are very pleased to announce that Professor Martin Jones has become an Honorary Research Fellow of SPERI. In May 2017 Martin left the University of Sheffield to become Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor of Human Geography, and Co-Director of the Centre for City-Region Dynamics at Staffordshire University. We are very pleased that Martin will remain officially attached to SPERI and … Continue reading
SPERI granted observer membership of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)
We are very pleased to report that SPERI has been granted observer membership of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). SPERI is currently working with FEPS on two research projects: Diverging Capitalisms? Britain, the City of London and Europe (with Policy Network); The Post-crisis Political Economy of Young People across Europe. The observer status confirms the importance of our partnership … Continue reading
Scott Lavery secures prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship Award
We are delighted to announce that Dr Scott Lavery has recently been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship award which he will undertake at SPERI. The award, which runs from January 2018 to December 2020, will allow Scott to pursue an independent research project entitled Capitalising on the European Crisis: New Geographies of Economic Power in the EU. The … Continue reading