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 🍞🌹

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/...

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

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

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! 🍽🖍

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 💡

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

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.

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. ✊️🩷

📢✏️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'

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.

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!

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'.

Come and say hello on the 19th!

We've a new paper out today on Austere Life-Courses and Foreclosed Futures in @dialogueshg.bsky.social. Read for free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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.

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

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

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

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...

📢 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

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...

🌸 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

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-...

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)

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.

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]

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]

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...

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...

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...

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

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!

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 [email protected]. Places are limited!💻🎨💭

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

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

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

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 💭🎭💻

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!

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

📢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

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!

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...

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! 💻💡✊️