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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · May 21

Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"

authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray

is now available free online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · 5d

Debt Trap Nation -- a very powerful book.

Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm)

Dept of Geography, Cambridge

Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social · 5d

“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”

@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...

#housing #debt

Photo of a pile of books. The books are 'Debt Trap Nation' by Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki. Cover image features a woman and small child in a deep concrete basin or pit with no way of climbing out as the ladder is too short.

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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re in Cambridge on Oct the 4th/5th, delve into Menagerie Theatre’s public art project on
Democracy – “If You’re Not at the Table, You’re on the Menu” – plays, workshops, art installations, and talks exploring what democracy might mean.

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Susan J. Smith @sjs1869.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t miss this! A theatre company with a brilliant knack of engaging with the major political and practical issues of the day.

Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re in Cambridge on Oct the 4th/5th, delve into Menagerie Theatre’s public art project on
Democracy – “If You’re Not at the Table, You’re on the Menu” – plays, workshops, art installations, and talks exploring what democracy might mean.

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · 9d

I would think not - they're usually later (late October) and more yellow.

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · 12d

Me too, Hayley.

It's worth an FOI request to the council to see how many pest control officers the city still has.

We have found that pest control is an (often invisible ... at least initially) austerity cut in many cities.

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University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge @zoologymuseum.bsky.social · 16d

📢ARTIST REQUIRED📢Love working with young people & families? We're seeking an artist/facilitator to lead some workshops & create an art installation, film or animation, on the theme of climate change & the Ice Ages! ❄️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct 🙂@camunivmuseums.bsky.social
ow.ly/llRt50X05P3

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · 18d

A short plug for my local Filipino bakery, Kanto. Absolutely delicious baked goods and coffee. Gorgeous Ube Pandesal – purple yam doughnut (plum jam?).
Always a queue, but worth it if you're in Cambridge.

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Prof Katherine Brickell @kbrickell.bsky.social · Sep 7

Couldn’t agree more. It’s a myth!

And one we cover in our new book ‘Debt Trap Nation’ out with Agenda

www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Sep 7

@zackpolanski.bsky.social pointing out that a household budget is nothing like a national economy.

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Prof Katherine Brickell @kbrickell.bsky.social · Sep 1

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣

🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.

🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · Sep 4

Labour geographer (and my PhD student), Jon White, on University Challenge Monday Sept the 8th!

Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations to our PhD student Jon White on representing @camunigeography.bsky.social and @darwincollegecam.bsky.social on University Challenge! The team's first-round match against @greentempleton.bsky.social Oxford will be broadcasted on Monday 8th September at 8.30pm on BBC2. Don't miss it!

The photo shows the four members of the Darwin College team sitting at the long table in the BBC University Challenge studio. They are arranged from left to right:
Lewis Strachan (PhD Medical Science)
Ruth Ní Mhuircheartaigh (MEd with Mathematics)
Louis Cameron (PhD English)
Jon White (PhD Geography)

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm not sure if I'll go to the next AAG conference (2026) in San Francisco ...

but I can say the AAG really needs to update their online "information on digital privacy at the US border" section to reflect the increased risk many geographers will face in entering the US.

@geographers.bsky.social

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our research project on austerity in Liverpool was affected by this. Requested some basic data from Liverpool
through a FOI request and still haven't recieved a reply (the article is now published!).

Ironically, probably a sign of austerity cuts and reduced capacity.

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · Aug 22

Big increase in the number of UK’s official socioeconomic data series decertified due to data problems.

Incompetence (UK) rather than political machinations (US), but just as troubling for academics and policy makers.

I still miss the ONS's Neighbourhood Statistics.

www.ft.com/content/c046...

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · Aug 22

Big increase in the number of UK’s official socioeconomic data series decertified due to data problems.

Incompetence (UK) rather than political machinations (US), but just as troubling for academics and policy makers.

I still miss the ONS's Neighbourhood Statistics.

www.ft.com/content/c046...

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Aug 19

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Cameron-Osborne years offer an important reminder that it is possible to excel at the theatre of politics - to "look prime ministerial", to dominate the "media narrative", to project "competence" and to communicate a clear political "story" - while being strikingly inept at governing.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · Aug 19

Yet another retrospective triumph for Cameron and Osborne.

Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’

High critical report finds that instead of promised annual saving of £100m, fees have rocketed amid financial crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚨Abstract Deadline Day for 2025 Regional Futures Conference 🚨

⌛18 August

Join the RSA community in 🌎London, UK 🗓️13-14 November.

For more information and to submit your abstract:

🔗 bit.ly/4lgfLj3

😀🔁

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 17

How Spain put up wealth taxes - without chasing away the billionaires.

Yet the 'don't tax the rich' brigade constantly scare people.

Wealth tax isn't just about revenued. It reduces inequalities, capacity of the rich to bribe, pollute, hijack democracy, hold governments to ransom.

How Spain put up wealth taxes - without chasing away the billionaires

Amid calls for Rachel Reeves to bring in a new levy for the super-rich, Madrid offers lessons for policymakers

www.theguardian.com

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · Aug 14

Despite all the naysayers, we can tax the rich ... and they won't all leave the country.

New tax data from HMRC allays fears of non-dom exodus from UK -

on.ft.com/4fzPXgF via @FT

Initial tax data allays fears of non-dom exodus from UK

Officials had expected one in four with trusts to leave Britain after status was abolished

on.ft.com

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Luke Raikes @lukeraikes.bsky.social · Jun 6

Living standards declined under the last government, for the first time on record - according to our new analysis

Today, our report shows how this government can do better

And we argue next week’s spending review must pass the “living standards test”

Now...some charts!

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Luke Raikes @lukeraikes.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨Reminder: we're recruiting research roles!! 🚨

@thefabians.bsky.social

Not long left to apply now - closes 22 August...

fabians.org.uk/about-us/rec...

Recruitment | Fabian Society

Fabian Society

fabians.org.uk

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · Aug 11

Looks great. I look forward to reading it.

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Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · Aug 6

Reading an excellent & important research report on the need to end austerity economic, and develop sustainable long-term economic and social policies for coalfield areas. It's by David Etherington, Mia Gray, and Lisa Buckner and well worth a read. 👇

www.staffs.ac.uk/news/2025/04...

Legacy of ‘inequality and deprivation’ in former coal mining communities

A new report calls for an end to austerity, and sustainable long-term economic and social policies for coalfield areas

www.staffs.ac.uk

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Max Roessler @max-roessler.bsky.social · Aug 1

I am thrilled and grateful to @mia-gray.bsky.social and the @regstud.bsky.social for the 2025 Paul Benneworth Award. Special thanks to Markus Grillitsch, @miorner.bsky.social and Daniel Schiller for an enriching and enjoyable writing process! 🙏😃
www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-rs...

2025 RSA Paul Benneworth PhD Student Award - RSA Main

Watch as Mia Gray, Chair of the Awards Committee, presents the 2025 Paul Benneworth PhD Student Award to Max Roessler, of the University of Greifswald, Germany and CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden for ...

www.regionalstudies.org

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