Really very proud of this issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social and a pleasure to work with Steven and Harry. I think the issue offers a fair-minded view of one of the most important pieces of Labour’s agenda and tackles the changing work landscape in a big picture way. Read, share, subscribe!
New Renewal just dropped! Some fantastic stuff in this issue, including essays from Jane Gingrich, Jon Cruddas, Hilary Cottam, @ewangibbs.bsky.social, @joshwesterling.bsky.social, @abbyabhaya.bsky.social, and @benjthomas.bsky.social
The day's main political event: new Renewal !
NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work
Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social
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Great to talk Cornwall & critical minerals at this event today along with @jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social and many others, and introduce a new policy study out soon with @feps-europe.eu: 'Place-Based Industrial Policy in the Age of Insecurity: The Politics of Producing Materials, Minerals & Microchips'.
🔴Join LIVE - the event “Place-based industrial policy in Europe”
youtube.com/watch?v=Eufb...
🤝 By FEPS in cooperation with Progress and @pes-cor.bsky.social.
Carl Hunter OBE and @paulmason.bsky.social have been appointed as Honorary Fellows at the @exeter.ac.uk Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence and Security
@fhpitts.bsky.social
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Quoted in todays @theguardian.com on the latest progress in Cornwall's contribution to the country's energy & mineral security, alongside Critical Minerals Challenge Centre colleague Frances Wall & @perranmoonmp.bsky.social: theguardian.com/environment/...
@uniofexeternews.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
From national resilience to national renewal? Wrote up some remarks on our home defence paper for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, asking whether Labour's long-promised 'defence conversation' will find, to paraphrase Thatcher, no such thing as 'whole-of-society' after all: renewal.org.uk/blog/resilie...
This looks very timely.
From national resilience to national renewal? Wrote up some remarks on our home defence paper for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, asking whether Labour's long-promised 'defence conversation' will find, to paraphrase Thatcher, no such thing as 'whole-of-society' after all: renewal.org.uk/blog/resilie...
Find out more about the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence & Security here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research-cen...
@spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
"The UK faces critical vulnerabilities when compared to allied countries...Home defence should be treated as a strategic necessity in the face of persistent and escalating threats"
You can read more about our new policy paper via
@uniofexeternews.bsky.social here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
"Without immediate clarity of purpose, strong governance, and rapid mobilisation of resources, the UK risks critical strategic vulnerability at a time when adversaries are already acting."
Read "Making Sense of Home Defence: From Planning to Practice" here: www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/rese...
New policy paper exploring the concept of home defence & whole-of-society security/resilience in the UK.
Published by the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence & Security at @exeter.ac.uk.
Coauthored with Frances Tammer & Gareth Stansfield with a Foreword by Paul Cornish: t.co/hloNsXAYaJ
Did you know that security is being used as a lever to attract economic development in rural regions? Sign up for the RSA Edgenet webinar talking about what it means for peripheries in a new era of geopolitical instability.
Wednesday 4 February, 9-10.30 am
👉 www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-r...
The report has identified six areas of focus to help leverage more SME participation in UK defence as a rallying call is issued for joint industry and government collaboration - @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @fhpitts.bsky.social
www.babcockinternational.com/news/babcock...
NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4
Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond
🇪🇺🇬🇧The final day of the 11th Oxford Symposium opens with the plenary on “#Industrial strategy and grand transformations”.
With:
🔺@jrgingrich.bsky.social
🔺Rachel Blake, MP
🔺 Theo Cox
The 11th Oxford Symposium launches the book “The Great Unravelling”.
📕 bit.ly/GreatUnravel...
Preparing for Putin's Intermittent War - why we have to harden UK society against the kind of treatment Ukraine is suffering - open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/p...
Professor @fhpitts.bsky.social from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @exeterspspa.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall ahead of the #budget today
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Great to see our @ukri.org Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk mentioned in Vision 2035, the government's new Critical Minerals Strategy. As test case for securonomics in action, it has a clear focus on Cornwall's tin, tungsten & lithium. 🔗in thread below
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The new Critical Minerals Strategy speaks to ongoing work with @progbrit.bsky.social & @feps-europe.eu on industrial policy against a backdrop of geopolitical competition for power & control over resources like critical minerals, with Cornwall a case study: www.progressivebritain.org/the-chancell...
I recently published a policy briefing looking towards the new Critical Minerals Strategy as the government's 'securonomics' agenda in action - a testbed of reindustrialisation in pursuit of both national security & environmental sustainability: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk/publications...
You can read more about how the new Critical Minerals Strategy chimes with the research & policy work of our Critical Minerals Challenge Centre, bringing together Camborne School of Mines with @hass-cornwall.bsky.social & more, via @uniofexeternews.bsky.social here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Great to see our @ukri.org Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk mentioned in Vision 2035, the government's new Critical Minerals Strategy. As test case for securonomics in action, it has a clear focus on Cornwall's tin, tungsten & lithium. 🔗in thread below
www.gov.uk/government/p...
NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2
Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond
Dr Joanie Willett from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social spoke to BBC South West about tourism in Cornwall 🏖️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...
