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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · Jun 2

This Wednesday at QMUL - @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social hosts 'Transforming Central Banking in the Ecological Crisis: intersecting perspectives from political economy and accounting'.

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Select tickets – Transforming central banking in the ecological crisis: intersecting perspectives from political economy and accounting – Queen Mary University of London, iQ East (Scape) 0.14

This event brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming...

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · May 28

This is happening next week...

Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Apr 28

On the 4th of June, AARG is organizing an event that brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming central banking in the ecological crisis. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · May 23

Jana brilliant speech is now available 🎉

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · May 23

I've now published my remarks from the great 'Multiple crises in higher education' event organised by @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social on Tuesday - quick write-up so excuse any typos!

janabacevic.net/2025/05/23/t...

Three ghosts of British higher education

[These are the more-or-less unedited notes for my speech at the event Multiple Crises of Higher Education, held on 20 May 2025 at Queen Mary’s Mile End Institute, and organised by the fantast…

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · May 23

This is happening in less than two weeks ... comes along

Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Apr 28

On the 4th of June, AARG is organizing an event that brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming central banking in the ecological crisis. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · May 20

Since Chairs of Councils come up: we don’t have one at the moment… Council has been looking for one for the past 18 months as the previous one’s term was running out and somehow we still just have the vice chair as interim.

Absolutely a sign of a very healthy institution with a healthy reputation.

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · May 20

Over to Steven Jones on “ethic”
university governance (which he, hopefully, considered naming “competent” university governance…)

With a shout out to the excellent dossier he co-published in 2024: cdbu.org.uk/university-g...

UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE: Views From the Inside | CDBU

We are pleased to publish the results of one of our funded research projects. “University Governance: Views from the Inside”, by Professor Steven Jones (PI) and Dr Diane Harris, explores the inner wor...

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · May 19

TOMORROW in-person @qmul.ac.uk 2.30pm - @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social hosts an event on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education, exploring the various financial, governance, accountability crises rocking the sector.

A few tickets left. Register free:

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Join us for an event on the multiple crises that are currently affecting UK Higher Education, emerging from efforts to reorgani...

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · May 12

@claudinegrisard.bsky.social & I open, our first panel explores the international political economy of central banking & macrofinance w/ @monicadileo.bsky.social & @brusselermel.bsky.social. Then on to the issue of instituting green macrofinancial policy w/ Maria Nikolaidi & @apsmolenska.bsky.social

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · May 7

📣 On the 4th of June, AARG is organizing an event that brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming central banking in the ecological crisis. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
Come along

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Apr 29

Speakers include James Brackley (University of Sheffield), David Harvie, Steve Jones (University of Manchester),Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths University), Jana Bacevic (Durham University), Rose Stephenson (HEPI).

Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Apr 29

@unsocialtheory.bsky.social @profstevenjones.bsky.social @davidharvie.bsky.social @rstephenson123.bsky.social

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Apr 29

📣 Join us for an event on the multiple crises that are currently affecting UK Higher Education,at QMUL hosted by AARG and the Mile End Institute (MEI). More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen... @mileendinstitute.bsky.social

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Apr 28

On the 4th of June, AARG is organizing an event that brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming central banking in the ecological crisis. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

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Nick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · Apr 28

📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social

Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Apr 8

The event page is now available for the AARG event on 20 May on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education. Register here - www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

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CLaSP @clasp-qmul.bsky.social · Apr 1

New on the CLaSP blog: 'Race, Profit, and Algorithms', @wonyoungso.bsky.social details his research on iBuyers, a new class of real estate actors generating profits in racialized housing markets

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Race, Profit, and Algorithms: How iBuyers Leverage Neighbourhood Inequality — CLaSP Blog

How do algorithm-driven business models interact with historical patterns of segregation, property devaluation, and racial capitalism? Wonyoung So addresses this question in new research into iBuyers—...

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Mar 22

Struck reading how everything is replicated at QMUL (“stabilisation” language while the crisis isn’t local; ungrowth; focus on cutting (staff…) cost rather than growing income; redirection of the purpose of the university)

Only to read in the last paragraph that, of course, the NOUS group is there…

UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · Mar 21

The latest from our Joint Unions Finance Working Group looks at the 'logic' behind the huge cuts being proposed at the University of Edinburgh

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/tlwewp3...

Reckless downsizing: the “logics” of management’s cuts — UCU Edinburgh

Unpacking the “business model” behind the UoE cuts

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Mar 11

And this in the FT today... let discuss this crisis with the other HE crises on the 20th of May - registration - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Mar 11

NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...

The UK’s academic recession is in full swing

This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Mar 11

Our colleagues from @clasp-qmul.bsky.social are organising an 🗣️ EVENT: on 13 March for a dialogue between two leading scholars of the global fossil fuel economy - Alice Mah & Adam Hanieh - on 'Petrochemical Transitions'. Register for a free ticket:

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Petrochemical transitions: a dialogue on industrial, geopolitical & sustainability transformations with Alice Mah and Adam Hanieh — CLaSP Blog

Petrochemical transitions: a dialogue on industrial, geopolitical and sustainability transformations The event brings together two leading scholars – Adam Hanieh and Alice Mah – whose shared focus on...

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Mar 10

Hi Richard - it is in person and run from 2:30 to 5:30 pm

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · Mar 10

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UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Multiple crisis of higher education - Registration

AARG (Accounting and Accountability research group at Queen Mary University of London) is organizing a round table about the multiple crisis of higher education, emerging from the reorganization of th...

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Mar 10

Speakers include Natalie Fenton (Goldsmith), Steve Jones (Uni of Manchester), Jana Bacevic (Durham Uni), James Brackley (Uni of Sheffield), Rose Stephenson (HEPI) and David Harvie.

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · Mar 10

On May 20th, AARG is organizing a round table about the multiple crisis of higher education. This event aims to reposition this specific crisis in relation to other crises, students’ debts, cost of living crisis, University governance crisis, crisis of the welfare state … registration link 👇

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 5

Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws

Guardian analysis finds fossil-fuel and mining firms have won $92bn of public money from states, with a growing number of cases backed by financial speculators Read more: Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to…

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · Mar 4

"When people think of the word “inventory,” they think of accounting, of course. They do not know that the term originates from the first canon of rhetoric, which is inventio."

The Metaphysics of Accounting with Paolo Quattrone

Paolo Quattrone (@PaoloQuattrone) joins Money on the Left to discuss the metaphysics of accounting and the significance of accounting’s repressed history for political economy today. Prof…

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