Blogs
Have a look through our blogs
Please see below a series of blogs relating to our project, featuring topics including, but not limited to, the themes of austerity, altered lives, young people and creative methods. If you would like to write for our blog please get in touch: austerityalters@manchester.ac.uk.
Series one: How austerity alters lives and futures: New insights and solidarities
- Fading away: how deepening poverty is hiding the worst effects of permacrisis - by Thomas Adnan-Smith, Emma Hyde, and Daniel Edmiston
- Affective Problem of English Renting Future(s) - by Anil Sindhwani
- Hostility as Slow Violence: The Impacts of Austerity on People Seeking Asylum in the UK - by Isabelle Taylor
- Precarious Lives, Time Perspectives, and Financial Wellbeing - Kristian Fuzi
- Women’s urban safety and the structural violence of austerity - Isis Barei-Guyot
Series two: How austerity alters lives and futures: Fresh perspectives for research, policy and practice
- Futility and necessity: reflecting on an academic life researching poverty - John H. McKendrick
- “There’s nothing concrete round here”: Loneliness and (in)security in austere times - Jessie Kelly
- The need for more holistic and multi-dimensional welfare policies - Ingun Borg
- Human costs of austerity in the voluntary sector - Matti Morovat