💥Call for Editor(s)-in-Chief💥 The International Journal of Housing Policy IJHP Editors is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief This is your chance to join one of the best international housing journals Website tandfonline.com/journals/reuj20 Application details dropbox.com/s/onavtmvcdpc5…

Little known fact about ASEAN: they have rather fetching gift-wrapping paper, complete with little buildings

🏝️💰☀️🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Come and join us School of Environment, The University of Auckland in New Zealand :). We are looking for a Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in GIScience to join our great team #academicjobs #GIS

How is hope used in nonprofit spaces of poverty governance? In my new article in Transactions RGS-IBG Higher Ed, I argue that hope is foundational to how financial coaching programs depoliticize lived experiences of impoverishment. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr…

Our IJHP Editors editorial on documentary film & podcasting as forms of resistance & policy influence is Open Access for a bit: "... there has been a broadening of what counts as useful mediums for policy influence..." 👇

New in #TIBG: 'Mobilizing a counterhegemonic idea: Empathy, evidence, and experience in the campaign for a Supervised drug Injecting Facility (SIF) in Dublin, Ireland' by Eugene McCann (SFU Department of Geography) and @tonyduffin (AnaLiffey). orlo.uk/g3gbH

City governments around the world are recognising their ability and responsibility to be ambitious. Are Auckland’s mayoral candidates up for it? @CraigLord2022 Efeso Collins Leo Molloy @VivBeckForMayor stuff.co.nz/opinion/129532…

👇we highlight the rise of in-sourcing and progressive procurement as promising trends in local government, with examples from Australia, Canada, Italy, Spain and the UK Public Policy Institute School of Environment, The University of Auckland Koi Tū Centre for Informed Futures ANZSOG NZPSA x.com/tom_a_baker/st…

And the great work of Auckland's own The Southern Initiative x.com/tom_a_baker/st…

New blog post on income share agreements for @theSBPC

This is going to be goooood - come join us! Abstracts close at end of Sept x.com/bspiesbutcher/…

Great paper on justice reinvestment by Gareth Bryant & Ben Spies-Butcher just out in EPA: Economy and Space! Glad to have it in an upcoming special issue on marketising social reproduction x.com/garethjbryant/…

Hope to see lots of urban studies folk in Pōneke / Wellington in Dec 2023 for ACRN-SOAC!👇x.com/iain_white/sta…

See our new paper "Innovating urban governance" for a research agenda on the politics and possibilities of the 'innovation imperative' for city governance Progress in Human Geography doi.org/10.1177/030913… Mark Boyle Eugene McCann @ColinLorne @mattwthomp Urban Political ACCESS geog&enviro

It's been great visiting @Glass_PittUrban Mascaro Center U.Pitt Urban Studies @pitthonours after 2+ years of Covid isolation in NZ, seeing their community partnerships in action. Taking plenty of insights back home to School of Environment, The University of Auckland, not least the advent of televised competitive rock skimming:

Huge congrats to @MatthewRussellS on his Marsden grant. He's so humble and won't ever crow about this. But his work - looking at the interrelationship of capitalism and colonisation, always seeking out bold strategies and solutions - is pathbreaking & so deserving of recognition.

Australia's first 'Wellbeing' Budget consciously left thousands living in poverty. Dr Troy Henderson Elise Klein and I ask what this tells us about the possibilities and limits of challenging austerity by counting and valuing things differently? austaxpolicy.com/october-budget…

Glad to speak to Max Harris about recent research on public investment banks & infrastructure financing for nzherald. NZ should be wary of the UK's approach of restricting the role of public banks to de-risking & propping up private investment... 1/2 nzherald.co.nz/nz/rebuilding-…

How can Australia better harness the potential of local governments for policy innovation & experimentation? Researchers from ACCESS geog&enviro, @sydney_arch & School of Environment, The University of Auckland looked into it. thepolicymaker.jmi.org.au/beyond-roads-r… Pauline McGuirk Alistair Sisson Tom Baker @RobynSydney @SophiaMaalsen