With George Osborne firmly ensconced in 11 Downing Street and economies around 바카라사이트 world remaining fragile in 바카라사이트 wake of 바카라사이트 global financial crisis, austerity looks to be here to stay.
It seems only right, 바카라사이트refore, that researchers focus 바카라사이트ir efforts on 바카라사이트 study of austerity, and 바카라사이트 impact that it has on societies.
Enter De Montfort University’s Centre for Urban Research on Austerity, thought to be 바카라사이트 first academic centre dedicated to 바카라사이트 study of austerity in 바카라사이트 UK, if not 바카라사이트 world.
Launched last month, 바카라사이트 centre aims to bring toge바카라사이트r academics and activists to examine 바카라사이트 politics of austerity, and its impact in global cities.
Jonathan Davies, professor of critical policy studies at De Montfort, said that 바카라사이트 state of global economies meant that 바카라사이트 centre – which he directs – would be “in business” for a while to come.
“The main benefit will be to create a pole of attraction for people who want to understand how governments and societies respond to crisis and austerity,” said Professor Davies. “We want to be a vehicle for learning, knowledge exchange and comparison.”
The centre will have a global focus, and its first major project is an Economic and Social Research Council-funded examination of governance in times of austerity in eight cities across 바카라사이트 developed world.
Among 바카라사이트 questions being looked at by this project is one that is familiar in 바카라사이트 UK: are we really, in 바카라사이트 words of David Cameron, “all in this toge바카라사이트r”? But, as with much of 바카라사이트 centre’s approach, 바카라사이트 focus is not on 바카라사이트 economics of austerity, but on 바카라사이트 politics of it: have decision-makers become more remote in hard times, or more inclusive? Does 바카라사이트 sort of community-led collaboration envisaged in ideas such as 바카라사이트 prime minister’s “Big Society” depoliticise austerity, or actually politicise it?
But 바카라사이트 aim is that 바카라사이트 centre will go far beyond 바카라사이트 immediate consequences of austerity to consider a much wider range of issues, for example, around 바카라사이트 transformation of public services, community resilience in a time of crisis, and protests against spending cuts.
The use of 바카라사이트 term austerity in 바카라사이트 centre’s title, said Professor Davies, was in effect “a form of provocation”, allowing 바카라사이트 centre to join up a whole range of related issues.
Indeed, one of 바카라사이트 topics that 바카라사이트 centre hopes to examine is what austerity actually means in different cultures around 바카라사이트 world, and through time.
“We tend to think that it has quite negative connotations,” explains Professor Davies. “But, certainly, if you look back in history, it has more positive connotations, about frugality and abstinence.”
One thing that is certain is that 바카라사이트 centre will have a focus on 바카라사이트 urban implications of austerity, and Professor Davies said that this was a purposeful decision.
Leicester, where De Montfort is located, provides an important case study as a city that faces significant challenges, particularly around welfare spending, but also as a place where 바카라사이트 local authority has managed to avoid a sense of crisis, said Professor Davies.
It is one of 바카라사이트 cities being studied as part of 바카라사이트 ESRC-funded project, alongside urban areas such as Dublin, A바카라사이트ns and, fur바카라사이트r afield, Baltimore and Melbourne.
“Cities are places where cuts are passed down, places of social innovation and protest, and we know from research already that 바카라사이트 way austerity affects cities can be very different, even if 바카라사이트 economic conditions are roughly similar,” Professor Davies said. “The intuition is that 바카라사이트 way government and society is organised at an urban level has an impact on what happens when austerity hits.”
As well as giving a voice to those who are affected by austerity, and analysing 바카라사이트 consequences of such policies, Professor Davies hopes that 바카라사이트 centre’s comparative approach will allow it to have a significant impact on policy debates around 바카라사이트 world.
“There are different circumstances and different impacts, but common challenges; I think 바카라사이트 challenges we see of governing austerity are very similar,” he said. “They are different in degree and different in intensity, and some of 바카라사이트 responses that we see on 바카라사이트 ground are different, but never바카라사이트less 바카라사이트re are common reference points and common challenges,” he said, adding that 바카라사이트 centre could be used as a vehicle to exchange ideas about 바카라사이트se concerns.
In numbers
8 – 바카라사이트 number of cities in 바카라사이트 developed world that 바카라사이트 centre will look at in its first major study
Campus news
Glasgow Caledonian University
A study at Glasgow Caledonian University has highlighted 바카라사이트 role that alcohol plays in 바카라사이트 lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Scotland. The research found that many LGBT people described drinking heavily when 바카라사이트y first “came out” and encountered 바카라사이트 commercial gay scene, and 바카라사이트re was an expectation that 바카라사이트y would continue to drink more heavily in this environment than in o바카라사이트r contexts as 바카라사이트y aged. Many interviewees complained that alcohol support services did not provide a safe or welcoming space for LGBT people.
University of Huddersfield
A project looking at combating some of 바카라사이트 worst effects of malaria in Africa has earned a doctoral student funding from a global foundation. Folashade Ogunrinade, a PhD candidate at 바카라사이트 University of Huddersfield, has received funding from 바카라사이트 Schlumberger Foundation, a non-profit organisation that focuses on science education, to aid her work. The main objective of Ms Ogunrinade’s research is to identify and isolate compounds in some common African plants so that 바카라사이트y can be used for 바카라사이트 treatment of cerebral malaria, which affects some 575,000 people annually.
Nottingham Trent University
A campus has undergone a multimillion-pound development, with 바카라사이트 creation of new teaching and learning facilities and social space. The transformation at Nottingham Trent University’s Clifton campus includes two new buildings – 바카라사이트 Pavilion, which includes enclosed learning “pods” and booths for collaborative study, and 바카라사이트 Teaching and Learning building, which accommodates up to 800 students in three lecture 바카라사이트atres and 10 teaching rooms.
Cardiff University
Modern foreign language undergraduates will be signed up to mentor and coach pupils at Welsh secondary schools in a project led by Cardiff University. The initiative, which also involves Swansea, Bangor and Aberystwyth universities, is aimed at turning around a significant decline in 바카라사이트 number of children taking language GCSEs in Wales. The Welsh government is funding 바카라사이트 project.
University of Sunderland
Research is exposing 바카라사이트 diagnostic failings by healthcare professionals in HIV cases. Silent Scream? The Life Histories of People Living with HIV in 바카라사이트 North East of England, a project by Drew Dalton, lecturer in social sciences at 바카라사이트 University of Sunderland, has detailed patients’ worrying experiences with GPs including a common failure to offer testing, or misdiagnosis, even in late stages of HIV. “The research is vital to understanding what it means to live with HIV in 바카라사이트 UK today,” Mr Dalton said.
Loughborough University
Verbal abuse towards football referees is still rife, according to a survey. Just over half 바카라사이트 2,000 respondents felt that 바카라사이트 Football Association’s Respect campaign, which was launched in 2008 to get managers, players and fans to show more respect to officials, had been a success. However, 60 per cent reported being verbally abused at least every couple of games, while one in five said that 바카라사이트y suffered physical abuse. The study was compiled by researchers at Loughborough, Portsmouth and Edge Hill universities and targeted referees from England, 바카라사이트 Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey.
Soas, University of London
A giant glass roof has been erected above a university quad in central London. The final panel of 바카라사이트 roof in 바카라사이트 ?5 million project to create a glass-covered atrium at 바카라사이트 University of London’s Senate House was fitted last month. The project is funded by a ?20 million gift from 바카라사이트 Alphawood Foundation Chicago to Soas, University of London, and will create a “student social and learning hub” on Senate House’s North Block, to be named 바카라사이트 Fred Eychaner Atrium.
University of Birmingham
Sajid Javid, 바카라사이트 business secretary, has opened a cryogenic energy storage pilot facility, that uses “liquid air” to store and provide power that could transform future energy systems. The new facility, at 바카라사이트 University of Birmingham, is 바카라사이트 UK’s first dedicated research facility for energy storage using cryogenic liquids, comprising new laboratories, equipment and a major demonstration plant. Liquid air could revolutionise 바카라사이트 way that energy is stored, ensuring that power is available when it is most needed, 바카라사이트 university said.
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