Sharing our findings
These are our findings on Austerity and Altered Life-Courses
We value both traditional academic outcomes and broader engagement to disseminate our research. By utilising diverse avenues such as media engagement, reports, guides, and accessible formats, we strive to amplify our impact, foster understanding of social issues, and drive positive societal change.
Talks
2024
- Lives and Afterlives: Economic Change and the Everyday, Distinguished Lecture Series, Liverpool Hope University (Sarah Marie Hall, 2024)
2023
- Reflections on Urban Impact: Everyday Austerity, Urban Reform Coalition Conference, Manchester (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Uchronic Futures: Feeling Out of Time and Out of Place in the Everyday Life of Austerity, University College Dublin Geography Seminar Series and Cardiff University Geogrpahy Seminar Series (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Researching Creatively, Invited Talk, Pint of Science, Manchester (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2023)
- Young people’s activism in times of austerity. Presentation of key findings from PhD research for PhD partner organisation RECLAIM (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2023)
- Living Austerity, Invited Lecture, Oxford University Martin Society (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Friendship, academia and everyday solidarities, Invited Talk, Geographies of Justice Research Group, Royal Geographical Society (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Transport and Economic Austerity policy event, (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Guest Lecture UAB (Barcelona) Lecture title: ‘Understanding the lives of austerity through creative methods’ (Leyva del Río 2023)
- ‘How austerity alters lives and futures: new insights and solidarities’, three co-chaired panel sessions at the RGS-IBG annual international conference (Elizabeth Ackerley and Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Young people’s activism across the life-course in times of austerity, RGS-IBG annual international conference (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2023)
- Ways of understanding young people’s futures in a context of economic and ecological uncertainty, European Sociological Association Research Network 30 ‘Youth and Generation’ Midterm Conference 2023: Youth in the post-pandemic: from experiences of inequalities to new opportunities for solidarities (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2023)
- Young people’s activism in times of austerity, Research in Practice Leaders’ Forum (Elizabeth Ackerley and Katie Shaw, 2023)
2022
- Hammertown, Milltown and Beyond: Re-imaging the Class and Place in Youth Transitions, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (Laura Fenton, 2022)
- Co-travellers in time? The diverse temporalities of oral history methods, The Timescapes 10 Festival, Online (Laura Fenton, 2022)
- Researching the lifecourse: politics, housing, work and family life, SPOL (Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali) lunchtime seminar, Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Liz Ackerley, October 2022)
- A Pregnant Pause? Waiting, Reproduction and Silences in the Everyday Endurance of Austerity, Geoforum Lecture, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Social reproduction as social infrastructure, Keynote, International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure, Rotterdam (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Guest lecture for UG module ‘Life-course geographies: Social transformation and intergenerational justice’. Lecture title: “Researching the lifecourse: young people’s politics and austerity” (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2022)
- ‘Ruptures’, Invited Talk, Open University (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Invited response to TESG Lecture, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Living Austerity, Inaugural Lecture, University of Manchester (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Sarah Marie. GMPA Roundtable, Invited participant (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- GMPA Invited Panel Guest (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Invited participant, LGBTQ communities and friendship workshop, Edinburgh (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Filmed Contribution for Open University Module ‘Everyday Geographies’ (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Filmed contribution, with project partners, on Co-creation (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Are urban commons self-manageable? Social Movements Research Network-Council for European Studies, Lisbon (Leyva del Río, 2022)
- Sharing reproduction while de-commodifying housing. 17th EASA Biennial Conference, Belfast (Leyva del Río, 2022)
- ‘Mothers, wives, friends: women’s role in London squatting struggles since 1969’. Paper presented at Morgan Centre Internal Conference, University of Manchester (Madeline Routon, 2022)
- Mothers, wives, friends: women’s role in London squatting struggles since 1969’. Paper presented at ‘Towards Just and Equitable Global Political Economies’ PhD Masterclass, University of Manchester (Madeline Routon, 2022)
- Undergraduate students from Hamburg University; discussions on austerity and poverty in Greater Manchester (AALC team, 2022)
2021
- Imagining Future Families? How life-courses and legacies are shaped by austerity, Keynote, The Making and Doing of Family, Trier University (Sarah Marie Hall, 2021)
- Living legacies of austerity, Keynote, Situating Austerity, BSA Early Career Annual Event (Sarah Marie Hall, 2021)
- Oral histories and futures: methodological innovations in times of crisis, Talking Methods Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh (Sarah Marie Hall, 2021)
- Reproductive Rights in Times of Austerity: Insights from Oral Histories and Futures, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Online (Sarah Marie Hall, 2021)
Publications
Books
- Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course, Palgrave MacMillan (Thurnell-Read and Fenton, Editors, 2022)
- Contemporary Economic Geographies: Inspiring, Critical and Plural Perspective, Bristol University Press in press (Johns and Hall Eds 2023)
Journal Articles
- Solidarity and Care in Neoliberal Universities, Agora (Ackerley, Briggs, Fenton, Hall and Levya del Río, 2023)
- Social Reproduction, Austerity and Labour: Carrying the Future, The Sociological Review (Hall, 2023)
- For Feminist Geographies of Austerity, Progress in Human Geography (Hall, 2022)
- The Social Life of Crisis, ISRF Bulletin (Hall, 2022)
- A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday, Progress in Human Geography (Holdsworth and Hall, 2022)
- Conceptualising the commons as a relational triad: Lessons from the grant of use cooperative housing model in Barcelona. Geoforum (Leyva del Río 2022)
- Introducing ‘resonance’: Revisioning the relationship between youth and later life in women born 1939–52, The Sociological Review (Tinkler, Fenton and Cruz, 2022)
- Meeting Doreen Massey. Scottish Geographical Journal, (Hall 2023)
- A Pregnant Pause? Reproduction, Waiting and Silences in the Relational Endurance of Austerity, Geoforum (Hall, 2023)
- Mothers, wives, friends: women’s role in London squatting struggles since 1969 Gender Place and Cluture(Madeline Routon, 2023)
Reports
- Women's safety, austerity and intersecting crises in Manchester. (Barei-Guyot, with Ackerley & Briggs, 2024)
- Current Anti-poverty Strategies and Work in Greater Manchester. (Shannon Jones, Summer 2023)
- Running on Empty: Austerity, Rising Costs of Living and Growing Inequality for People and Charitable Organisations in Northern England. Independent Social Research Foundation. (Briggs and Hall, 2023
- International Innovations in Childcare – What can Manchester share and learn? CAPE| Policy@Manchester (Briggs, Cohen, Leyva, Ackerley, Fenton, and Hall, 2023) Read it in: Italiano | Español | Català
- Young people's activism in times of austerity. University of Manchester (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2023)
Blogs, Magazine Articles, Podcasts and Zines
- 'Why make a zine', Inspire Women Oldham and the Austerity and Altered Life-Courses team (2023)
- Stylist Magazine: Mortgage payments are set to soar – so how does this impact renters? (Alison Briggs, 2022)
- Cost of living & transport, Streets Ahead Podcast, Season 1, Ep. 46 (2022)
- “I don’t think I can cope financially”: the people putting off parenthood because of austerity, The Conversation (2021)
- Reproductive Futures in Austerity, Centre for Reproduction Research (2021)
- Austerity had its own life, The Conversation (2023)
Media Engagements
- Everyday geographies of austerity: on the stories not told. Decolonising Geography Blog (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester, Cost of Living Crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC Arabic TV, Cost of Living Crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Quoted in The Independent (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Quoted in Smart Transport Magazine (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on LBC Radio, Transport and Cost of Living Crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on Granada TV, Transport and Cost of Living Crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC North West TV, Transport and Cost of Living Crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester, Transport and Cost of Living Crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC Radio Merseyside, Transport and Cost of Living Crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on Jeremy Vine, Channel 5 TV, Cost of Living Crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on LBC Radio, Cost of Living Crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester, Cost of Living Crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Investing in Public Space and Social Infrastructure for Children and Young People, Evidence Accepted into Parliament (AALC Team, 2024)