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Adam Leaver
@adamleaver.bsky.social
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Prof of Accounting & Society at Uni of Sheffield; Head of Subject Group; Director of CRAFiC & The Audit Reform Lab; veteran soulboy.

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 1d
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io

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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · 19d
'Debt & Disruption: South East Water's creaking infrastructure & finances'. With background analysis and comment from me, in this @financialtimes.com article on South East Water www.ft.com/content/534a...
Debt and disruption: South East Water’s creaking infrastructure and finances
Under-fire utility paid almost as much in interest and dividends as it invested in the network in past 15 years
www.ft.com

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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · Jan 5
Were you a Fat City regular?

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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · Dec 3
His latest argument is that some of the UK's investment/productivity problems are linked to the accounting rules. I think that's partly right. www.ft.com/content/2543...; also academic.oup.com/cje/article/...
Blessed are the bean counters — except when it comes to growth
Accounting rules are holding back investment just as it needs to meet growth and net zero requirements
www.ft.com

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · Nov 20
This - finally - is the definitive musical history Sheffield so richly deserves.

GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY is @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's authoritative and hugely entertaining story of the city, told through its independent artists, scenes and spirit.

Coming May 2026 geni.us/GroovyLaidba...

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Alexandre Rajbhandari @alexrajbhandari.bsky.social · Nov 17
I've spoken with policyholders who are fearing life-changing losses.

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
When Wall Street’s Insurance Playbook Goes Wrong
Almost a decade after a private equity firm began reshaping a struggling life insurer, authorities are grappling with a $2.2 billion shortfall. Policyholders fear life-changing losses.
www.bloomberg.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Oct 28
OBR to downgrade UK productivity.

UK at or near bottom of the OECD investment league for 30 yrs.

Problem: City has short term horizons, direct state investment neutered.

China invests 40.4% of GDP in productive assets, India 30.5%, UK 18.2%, OECD average 23%.

Must abandon neoliberal constraints.
OBR productivity forecast may add £20bn to Budget hole
The OBR is understood to have downgraded the UK's productivity level in early Budget forecasts
www.bbc.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Oct 20
B&M finance chief quits over £7m accounting error.

Its Audit & Risk Committee oversees effectiveness of internal control, internal/external audit. External auditors KPMG collected £1m in 2024/25.

£7m is a big sum to miss.

What else is flawed in B&M governance?
B&M shares plunge as finance chief quits over ‘embarrassing’ accounting error
The discount retailer said the issue has been resolved but will have a financial impact
www.independent.co.uk

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The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social · Oct 20
“That’s the biggest misunderstanding in this country of the housing crisis. That it’s a crisis reserved for the poorest people in insecure jobs…”

@drabioconnor.bsky.social talks to BBC Panorama’s Anita Rani as part of their investigation into the UK housing crisis.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Panorama - The Race to Build 1.5 Million Homes
The government’s made a very big promise: to build 1.5 million new homes in England by 2029. Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt travel the length of the country to find out if it can be done.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · Oct 20
Here's a link to Abi's project: sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...
Dr Abi O’Connor joins CRAFiC through the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme
Abi O’Connor will join Sheffield University Management School’s Centre for Research into Accounting and Finance in Context to research a project titled ‘Following urban assetisation: a comparative the...
sheffield.ac.uk

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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · Oct 20
A big welcome to @drabioconnor.bsky.social who has joined CRAFiC as a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow. Her project is titled: ‘Following urban assetisation: a comparative theory of local state restructuring’ - I'm really looking forward to the findings... sheffield.ac.uk/management/p...
O'Connor, Abi , Dr
sheffield.ac.uk

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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · Sep 15
This is genuinely great. Many thanks for this. The comments under the article are inexplicable.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 15
My column in tomorrow's paper:
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
www.ft.com

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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · Aug 19
Thank you for your kind words Hetan!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 19
Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’. Valuable report from @adamleaver.bsky.social & colleagues at the Audit Reform Lab
www.theguardian.com/business/202... (Full report here auditreformlab.group.shef.ac.uk/administrati...)
Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’
High critical report finds that instead of promised annual saving of £100m, fees have rocketed amid financial crisis
www.theguardian.com

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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · Aug 9
My column for Real Britain | The Mirror

➡️Brum bin workers are being told to take up to £8,000 worth of pay cuts or face #FireAndRehire while councillors' allowances increase and government commissioners – brought in to control the council – earn an eyewatering £1,200 a day.

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · Feb 17
Congratulations to @savannahcox.bsky.social on this fascinating new paper on 'infrastructural time', and how resilience measures are shaped by earlier investments....
savannahcox.bsky.social Savannah Cox @savannahcox.bsky.social · Feb 14
First paper from a new project on the politics of energy crises and transitions in South Africa is out! I use the analytic of infrastructural time to make sense of (1) how such crises emerge and(2) the specific formations of "resilience" developed in response.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Infrastructural Time of resilience: Accounting for new (and old) forms of government in the South African grid
Temporality has long, if implicitly, structured geographic research on resilience—whether by underwriting scholarly endeavors to show how resilience a…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · Mar 4
Here’s the trailer for Episode 2 of #UrbanRadar

Stay tuned—full episode releasing soon!

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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · Jun 27
Successfully co-organized a 2-day workshop on the theme of Valuation, Space & Power this week, bringing together a brilliant group of scholars in Sheffield. Thank you to all the participants and fellow organizers @callumny.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social & Dan Tischer!

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Emanuele Sciuva @esciuva.bsky.social · Jun 25
This week, I was in Sheffield for the WS on @valspacepower.bsky.social. Met many ECRs interested in how economic value is constructed, where it is located, and who captures it. Thanks to Callum Ward, @adamleaver.bsky.social, @richmgoulding.bsky.social and @eyeofraf.bsky.social for the organisation!

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Prof Sarah Hall @drsarahhall.bsky.social · Jun 24
This was such a fun and stimulating workshop. Thank you to the whole organisational team and all the presenters - I learnt lots and enjoyed my trip to Sheffield 🙏

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valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social · Jun 23
Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social kicking us off by explaining how our workshop came about through a shared interest in value, calculation, critical accounting and economic geography

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · May 17
Thames Water on collision course with govt over exec bonuses.

TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”.

Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise.
archive.ph/FpLe0
Thames Water on collision course with government over bonuses
Utility claims new legislation to block bonuses will not capture ‘retention payments’
www.ft.com

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · Apr 17
Agree people don’t know what councils do etc. But I also think the public is reasonable enough to question why the local area looks dirty/declining etc while council tax bills have gone up and up and up and up and up. Politically it’s therefore currently ripe for undeliverable promises

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Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social · Apr 3
An exciting new opportunity for ECRs - a call for papers is out now for our 'Valuation, Space & Power' workshop (see below)

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Urban Institute @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social · Apr 2
Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop

www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Call for Papers: Valuation, Space and Power ECR workshop
This two-day early career researcher focussed 'masterclass' workshop will take place in person 23-24 June 2025 in the ICOSS Conference Room, 219 Portobello, S1 4DP and will include different speakers ...
www.sheffield.ac.uk

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · Mar 26
Real household disposable incomes (RHDI) is forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the course of the 2020s.

That's less than it grew over the course of the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.
Chart showing Total growth in Real Household Disposable Income per person, by decade: UK

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JM Tubío @jm-tubio.bsky.social · Mar 26
Report by @adamleaver.bsky.social and colleagues.
"This failure is partly the result of national policies, where national planning guidance in 2012 strengthened the capacity of developers to avoid affordable housing requirements on the grounds of ‘viability’47.

www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...
New report critiques supply-side urban development
The new report, written by Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jonathan Silver, critically examines the supply-side, property-led urban development model, using Manchester as a case study.
www.sheffield.ac.uk

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · Mar 25
once more with feeling - failing to repair a roof is more expensive than repairing it, but only one of these costs appears in the accounts and is scored by the five year forecast.