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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 21d

"Almost all of those surveyed want more public investment in domestic wind manufacturing, as well as in UK ports so they are fit for energy projects."

Must-read op-ed from @rosiehampton.bsky.social reflecting on their recent survey of UK oil & gas workers.

www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2547...

'North Sea workers urge government to do more on creating good renewable energy jobs'

Rosie Hampton is oil and gas campaigns manager at Friends of the Earth Scotland responds to a new study of over 400 North Sea oil and gas workers…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · Aug 26

*New research article*

Gabe Eckhouse and I for Geoforum on how since the 1970s North Sea oil and then fracking have been imagined as British and American national energy sources through imperial oil booms reinforcing old oil powers after the rise of anti-colonial nationalism.

Read it here⬇️

Two Late Imperial Oil Booms: A comparison of the constrained national energy imaginaries of the UK’s North Sea and US hydraulic fracturing

The UK and the US dominated global oil production for nearly a century. Imperial power was central to their control over the extraction and flow of oi…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thanks so much for this!!

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Jack MacGregor @jmacr.bsky.social · Jun 28

Absolutely loved this. So rare to get this level of analysis that's specific to Scotland and its dysfunctional unhappy status quo, its industrial strategy caught between inaction and apathy. A great listen.

Skotia @theskotia.bsky.social · Jun 27

Bathgate no more. Lindwood no more. Grangemouth no more. Now, Larbert no more?

After the news of Alexander Dennis' closure, @rosiehampton.bsky.social and @ewangibbs.bsky.social ponder whether Scotland is witnessing another unjust transition.

🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/MwMNRCJ

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed :)

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Skotia @theskotia.bsky.social · Jun 27

Bathgate no more. Lindwood no more. Grangemouth no more. Now, Larbert no more?

After the news of Alexander Dennis' closure, @rosiehampton.bsky.social and @ewangibbs.bsky.social ponder whether Scotland is witnessing another unjust transition.

🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/MwMNRCJ

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · Jun 27

Enjoyed chatting to environmental campaigner and trade unionist @rosiehampton.bsky.social about Scotland's unjust transition, the multinationals who dominate our economy and how we build an energy system that works for workers and citizens. You can listen here ⬇️

Skotia @theskotia.bsky.social · Jun 27

Bathgate no more. Lindwood no more. Grangemouth no more. Now, Larbert no more?

After the news of Alexander Dennis' closure, @rosiehampton.bsky.social and @ewangibbs.bsky.social ponder whether Scotland is witnessing another unjust transition.

🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/MwMNRCJ

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · Jun 27

Really enjoyed this conversation about (un)just transitions, public ownership & where do we go from here

You can listen at the link below!

Skotia @theskotia.bsky.social · Jun 27

Bathgate no more. Lindwood no more. Grangemouth no more. Now, Larbert no more?

After the news of Alexander Dennis' closure, @rosiehampton.bsky.social and @ewangibbs.bsky.social ponder whether Scotland is witnessing another unjust transition.

🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/MwMNRCJ

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · Jun 13

💥BOOK EVENT💥

Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Glasgow Launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities

🗓️Fri, June 20
⏰7 pm
📍Aye Aye Books
www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/fr...

Friends In Common Glasgow Book Launch - Laura C. Forster & Joel White

CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, hosting exhibitions, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances.

www.cca-glasgow.com

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Catrina Randall @catrinarandall.bsky.social · May 14

Unions and green groups call for £1.9bn emergency funding for North Sea workers

The organisations are holding a rally outside the UK Parliament on Wednesday morning to demand more support for workers to transition into green jobs.

www.independent.co.uk

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Catrina Randall @catrinarandall.bsky.social · May 14

From Grangemouth to Aberdeen, in Scotland we are already seeing what a transition led by corporate greed will look like, with job losses, fuel poverty and emergency food bank use on the rise. This cannot continue.

We need public investment to support workers into good, secure, unionised jobs.

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Catrina Randall @catrinarandall.bsky.social · May 14

Great to be out with trade unions and climate groups standing shoulder to shoulder outside UK Parliament today, calling on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to commit £1.9bn a year in transition funding for North Sea workers.

No more empty promises, time for real action for workers and their communities.

A group of people with banners, flags and placards standing on grass opposite Westminster

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · May 6

RALLY: DEMAND A WORKERS' TRANSITION ✊

We’re joining forces with climate activists and trade unionists to demand a workers’ transition is funded at the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review.

Rachel Reeves: support North Sea oil and gas workers!

Poster for a rally event, text "Rally: demand a workers' transition. 08:30, 14 May, Outside UK Parliament". Image in centre of people behind a large banner reading "Climate Justice = Worker Justice", holding placards.

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · May 5

Really delighted you enjoyed it Aaron!!

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · May 5

Picked this up yesterday at the May Day rally. Great stuff from all the authors, including @rosiehampton.bsky.social and @gavinbrewis.bsky.social writing on the Just Transition and on Ned Culture, respectively

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · May 1

Delighted to have a chapter in ‘Keep Left: Red Paper on Scotland 2025’, out today with @luathpress.bsky.social

I wrote about Scotland’s energy transition and what’s needed for the left to reclaim it from being dictated by the whims of industry bosses & private capital

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Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social · Apr 14

Welcome, friends! Come learn about our book and sign up for some exerpts, interviews and fun extras in the run up to its release: friendsincommon.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...

Welcome, friends!

An introduction to our new friends in common blog.

friendsincommon.substack.com

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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · Mar 19

Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.

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Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social · Mar 4

I’m so pleased to see this important, moving, incisive and harrowing collection of papers published. It was an honour to act as editor.

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Mar 4

OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue

A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah.

thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

#palestine #gaza

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · Feb 14

I’m really pleased to say my thesis, “Infrastructures of solidarity: the spatial politics of the left in 1980s Scotland”, is now online

theses.gla.ac.uk/84892/

if you’re interested in solidarity & unemployed workers’ centres, bookshops and women’s centres - look no further !

Infrastructures of solidarity: the spatial politics of the left in 1980s Scotland - Enlighten Theses

theses.gla.ac.uk

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Ryan Morrison @ryan-morrison.bsky.social · Feb 11

Our latest research looks at employment practice in the offshore wind sector, and takes a closer look at the ScotWind developers.

The Scottish Government didn't ask these companies to commit to Fair Work so we did - not one completed our survey.

Scottish Trades Union Congress @scottishtuc.bsky.social · Feb 11

Without stronger government action, Scotland’s renewable energy ambitions risk being built on a foundation of exploitation and inequality with workers concerns being ignored at every turn.

Exclusive with @heraldscotland.bsky.social @vickyallan.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2491584...

Offshore wind called out for 'elitist culture', leaving workers 'hanging in the wind'

Scottish trade union body claims workers in offshore wind have been left “hanging in the wind” as companies fail to adhere to Fair Work Agenda.

www.heraldscotland.com

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · Feb 11

Wrote this for @heraldscotland.bsky.social about how both governments have utterly failed to deliver a just transition for Grangemouth workers

t.co/Utwa0MkFYB

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Alistair Fair @alistairfair.bsky.social · Feb 6

Publication day! A social & architectural history of post-war Scottish new towns: planning & buildings plus community, family, gender, work, education, home. The ebook is FREE via bit.ly/4hLkxn9. Print copy (more attractive!) via www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-... - do ask libraries to purchase

Cover of 'Building Modern Scotland', listing authors (Alistair Fair, Lynn Abrams, Kat Breen, Miles Glendinning, Diane Watters and Valerie Wright) and showing a group of boys working on their bicycles amid new town housing.

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · Jan 31

If you'd like to come to the launch of The Energy That Made Modern Scotland then book your free ticket here!

5pm 20 Feb at Glasgow University

All welcome.

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Dr Rosie Hampton @rosiehampton.bsky.social · Jan 30

Really useful and interesting. Is there a link to a full research report/briefing on SAF? Would be really keen to read

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