Media appearances
25 September 2023 Interview on Sunak and Macron’s climate plans, BBC News – The Context Programme.
24 March 2023 Interview on the French pension reforms, authoritarian governance and political opposition to the Macron government, BBC Radio West Midlands.
Invited talks and conference presentations
3-6 April 2024 Beneath the Insuperable Barrier: Accumulation, the State and Climate Policy in Britain, ISA Annual Convention, San Francisco.
25-27 March 2024 Beneath the Insuperable Barrier: Accumulation, the State and Climate Policy in Britain, PSA Annual Conference, University of Glasgow.
February 2024 The Governance of Economic Democracy: Legitimation, the State and Alternatives to Capitalism, Public and Practices Research Cluster, University of Liverpool.
28 November 2023 COP28 and climate policy, Roundtable discussion, University of Southampton.
12-14 July 2023 Authoritarian neoliberalism between Johnson and Jupiter: declining legitimation and the hardening of the state in post-Brexit Britain and Macron’s France, EISA Annual Conference, University of Amsterdam.
8-10 June 2023 The Capitalist State and Alternatives to Capitalism: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and the Political Economy of Discontent Management in Britain, CPERN mid-term workshop, University of Naples L’Orientale.
4 April 2023 Authoritarian neoliberalism between Johnson and Jupiter: declining legitimation and the hardening of the state in post-Brexit Britain and Macron’s France, PSA Annual Conference, University of Liverpool.
8 March 2023 Authoritarian neoliberalism between Johnson and Jupiter: declining legitimation and the hardening of the state in post-Brexit Britain and Macron’s France, SPERI cluster, University of Sheffield.
22-23 July 2022 The Political Economy of the Green Transition: Climate Change, Accumulation and the State in Britain, CPERN mid-term workshop, University of Limerick.
10 December 2021 The Research Process: Expectations and Reality, School of Government Doctoral Colloquium, University of Birmingham: Presenting, chairing and facilitating discussions amongst PhD students and early-career scholars on the research process.
27 May 2021 The PhD Journey: Productivity and Mental Health, School of Government PGR Open Discussion Series, University of Birmingham: Chairing and facilitating open discussions on mental health amongst PhD students and early-career scholars.
14 April 2021, 5 May 2021 Defending your Statement of Intent, School of Government Doctoral Colloquium, University of Birmingham: Reviewing the work in progress of PhD students and advising them on the following stages of their thesis.
10 March 2021 The PhD Journey: Mental Health Challenges and Tips to Confront Them, School of Government PGR Open Discussion Series, University of Birmingham: Chairing and facilitating open discussions on mental health amongst PhD students and early-career scholars.
20 June 2019 The Elimination of Political Demands: Ordoliberalism, the Big Society and the Depoliticisation of Co-operatives, Politics and IR Annual Conference, University of Nottingham.
29 April 2019 The Elimination of Political Demands: Ordoliberalism, the Big Society and the Depoliticisation of Co-operatives, Government and Society Annual Conference, University of Birmingham.
18 March 2019 The Elimination of Political Demands: Ordoliberalism, the Big Society and the Depoliticisation of Co-operatives, CPERN mid-term workshop, University of Warwick.
28 June 2018 The Capitalist State in Crisis: Tracing France and Britain’s Support for Workers’ Cooperatives, PSA Early Career Network Annual Conference, University of Sheffield.
19 April 2018 Tracing State Action in Economic and Ecological Crisis: France and Britain’s Support for Workers’ Cooperatives, Government and Society Annual Conference, University of Birmingham.
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