China on track to generate three times more power from wind turbines and solar panels than government targeted. China’s solar and wind energy sector will reach 3.3 terawatts (TW) by 2030. #renewables #china reneweconomy.com.au/china-on-track…

Exciting training programme by Collective Encounters, @lokitsch @JennieTweetz Cities and Austerity please RT

In a great workshop ‘Making Critical Urban Knowledges for Just Futures’ organised by ⁦Jonathan Davies now posting on Threads & LinkedIn⁩ team at DMU - Jessica Parish here on settler colonialism and gentrification 👏

📣STRIKE ACTION CALLED📣 Due to our VC’s refusal to back down from 50% continuous wage deductions, notice has been served of 9 days of action. This can be stopped at any time. We welcome meaningful negotiation Full Statement 👉 tinyurl.com/mshn3bfd #ucuRISING UCU

Yesterday at INLOGOV we presented this volume edited by me and @AdrianBua on what happens when social and grassroots movements reinvent the participatory deliberative toolbox to reclaim the state - what we call democracy-driven governance routledge.com/Reclaiming-Par…

Happy to see that the article with Bego Aramayona is out. Thanks to Cities and Austerity for working as an incubator of ideas. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11….

A disaster for Birmingham. What can this lead to except another ferocious bout of austerity? @bhamcitycouncil LeaderofBirmingham The MJ

A bitter-sweet moment to see our piece out in Soundings Journal, in and among many other wonderful essays on the state of higher education in the UK and abroad. Sad that these pieces have to be written.

Crisis in higher education: a survey Soundings Journal Lawrence Wishart Books democratic-left.scot/post/in-depth-… / UCU Jonathan Davies now posting on Threads & LinkedIn Grant Buttars - #FreePalestine 🍉 Adam Standring Arianna Giovannini Melanie Simms Cities and Austerity UCU Scotland UCU Edinburgh Anne Matie Strathclyde UCU SNP Trade Union Group Scottish Green Party Trade Union Group Rosie Ellie Gomersall 🍉 isn't here anymore

Enough. Local government needs a long term plan for recovery, reset and renewal. Plugging funding gaps is a short term fix, our whole system of local resourcing needs a complete overhaul. My new The MJ column… bit.ly/3uG01l6

In case this wasn’t sufficiently clear after almost 15 years of austerity: allowing councils to sell assets *will not* help addressing the huge crisis #localgov is going through - it will just make it worse.

Hoping this evidence helps those seeking racial justice in welfare systems, especially in rural areas I have seen the brutal effects of sanctions firsthand over a decade and continue to support people affected. It is why we write Cardiff University Geography & Planning

New paper on "Crisis management in English local governance: the limits of resilience" in Policy & Politics, by Tania Arrieta and Jonathan Davies now posting on Threads & LinkedIn. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

A strong riposte to government efforts to kibosh the four day week from South Cambridgeshire District Council.

"Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience". New paper published by Tania Arrieta and Jonathan Davies now posting on Threads & LinkedIn in Policy & Politics. doi.org/10.1332/030557…

I'm asking a serious question here .Police Scotland who has put this together and where is your evidence infact how have you even come to this conclusion that poor white working class men have a 'hate monster' I'm asking this has an academic as Dr Mckenzie.

Just received a copy of this excellent book edited by Arianna Giovannini & Joanie Willett Looking forward to reading it! 📚 🤓❤️

Anyone wondered why #BBC current affairs programs only have people on who are middle class and/or from London its because they wont pay ordinary people for their time/expertise. After negotiating my expenses for 2 things (I travelled from Notts) I'm waiting for £80 2 months +

🔥 Superb article De Montfort was meant to be an “anchor institution” and “civic university” working for the “benefit of local people and the prosperity of our places”. But its executives have raided it and in 2-3 years claimed £278K in their own luxury expenses.

Renewed threat of mass redundancy at De Montfort University. Austerity is always with us. As is terrible governance. centralbylines.co.uk/news/education…