Die ZDF Sendung "Heute in Europa" hat gerade über die finanzielle Krise in englischen Kommunen (vor allem Nottingham) berichtet. Neben mir wurden mehrere Leute aus der Stadt interviewt, um die Auswirkungen der kommunalen Insolvenz zu erklären. zdf.de/nachrichten-se…

Yesterday - Nottingham; today - Birmingham. Enormous and hugely damaging cuts to local public services are on the way in both cities. Meanwhile, the talk in Westminster is about more tax cuts that will further exacerbate the crisis in local govt finance theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

Great passion here from the Radio York commentators. Even the broadcast infrastructure was unprepared for the unexpected last minute winner!

I left the local govt sector in early 2012, when the writing was on the wall due to austerity. There are lots of eerie parallels in higher education now

Vol 50(2) of LGS now available: incl papers on local government efficiency, politicisation within local political institutions, green job creation, environmental regulations, gender abuse, and corruption tandfonline.com/toc/flgs20/50/2 Peter Eckersley Marc Esteve Seulki Lee (((Germà Bel))) XY CIS + Gen-Tap

I'll be presenting about urban climate adaptation in Europe in a webinar next Thursday, 2pm UK time. The event is aimed at practitioners, academics and others involved in the sector, free to attend, and has a great line-up of speakers from across Europe climate-chance.org/en/get-involve…

En route to Glasgow for #PSA2024 The Political Studies Association annual conference. Looking forward to 3 days of insight and discussion, including two panel sessions and a roundtable run by PSA Local Politics tomorrow and Wednesday

Loving Pete's image of (very) first thing this morning. We're looking forward to catching up with everyone today at the The Political Studies Association conference. Our panels (and AGM) start tomorrow, so more to follow!!!

Two of our co-convenors, Peter Eckersley and Joanie Willett, catching up at #PSA2024. Just need Tom Arnold and we'll have our convening team together :-) Great The Political Studies Association conference so far!

Rounded off the day chairing a great PSA Local Politics roundtable celebrating 50 years of LGS, debating the defining of the field, the value of the local, and its future with Peter Eckersley Liz Richardson Joanie Willett Janice Morphet and Arianna Giovannini!

.Arianna Giovannini and Joanie Willett at the launch of their terrific-sounding and completely fresh take on a UK politics textbook PSA Local Politics The Political Studies Association

Our #eurolcp database containing information on plan quality of 167 local adaptation plans across EU27+1 is now public and free to download! #OpenAccess ssh.datastations.nl/dataset.xhtml?… Diana Reckien Filomena Fulvia Pietrapertosa Davide Geneletti Peter Eckersley Aoife M. Foley

Pleasure to talk about today's local elections in England, alongside young people's political (dis)engagement, the UK govt's migration policy and Gaza, on Chris Wright' podcast. Also featuring Marina Purkiss, Reem Ibrahim & John O’Brennan 👇

#Postdoc researcher role to work with me on our Arts and Humanities Research Council & DFG public | @[email protected] project MCH_Newcastle Essential skills: #German & #English language, PhD in #MuseumStudies or similar. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-…

Vol 50(3) of LGS now available: with papers on climate change, water services, citizen participation, public-private partnerships, migration to small cities & post-COVID 19 recovery from Brazil, China, Colombia, Netherlands, South Korea, the US and the UK tandfonline.com/toc/flgs20/50/3

At St James Park for England vs Bosnia Herzegovina. If anyone wants to test their eyesight, try reading the place name on the England flag

New paper in Regional Studies, written with Wolfgang Haupt and Leonie Laug. We draw on fieldwork in 11 contrasting German towns to show how climate managers frame policies in different ways, depending on local contexts, to gain local support for action doi.org/10.1080/003434…

I'll be chairing a hustings for the Tynemouth constituency on Sun 23 June, 6-7.30pm. In attendance: John Appleby - LibDem Alan Campbell - Lab Kelly Oliver Dougall - Party of Women Mustaque Rahman - Ind Chloe-Louise Reilly - Green All others were invited but have not responded

It was pretty cool to be on campus these last couple of days, even though I was locked out of my building to prepare for this! 👇

A relational understanding of the local state helps us appreciate local capacity to meet local needs - my contribution to the timely LGS SI on the future of local government 👀 Open access! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…