Stuart Shields
@docstushi.bsky.social
Accidental International Political Economist, Deputy Associate Dean PGR Faculty of Humanities University of Manchester. Director of Methods North West
Research: mostly regional development banks
Real life: Welsh Springer Spaniels & obscure 80s italo disco
Research: mostly regional development banks
Real life: Welsh Springer Spaniels & obscure 80s italo disco
Find a Way
open.spotify.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Wait till they discover ticketmaster et al 🙄 www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
British music stars urge Starmer to tackle ‘pernicious’ ticket tout websites
Radiohead, Dua Lipa and Coldplay among dozens of artists calling for cap on resale prices to stop exploitation of fans
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Wait till they discover ticketmaster et al 🙄 www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Grim news from the University of Nottingham c.org/XBRJP4j4ZF
We Can Make an Impact.
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Grim news from the University of Nottingham c.org/XBRJP4j4ZF
Joe Sheldon kicking off Methods North West workshop on Exploring Method(ologies) in Global Political Economy discussing walking interviews at the University of Liverpool
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Joe Sheldon kicking off Methods North West workshop on Exploring Method(ologies) in Global Political Economy discussing walking interviews at the University of Liverpool
3 years on and I'm finally getting used to outlook email moving the mark as unread, flag, pin & delete buttons to the right of the inbox and what does Microsoft do? Moves them back to the left 🤯
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
3 years on and I'm finally getting used to outlook email moving the mark as unread, flag, pin & delete buttons to the right of the inbox and what does Microsoft do? Moves them back to the left 🤯
🚨New PGR social media/digital culture methods network if you're in the north west 🚨
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🚨New PGR social media/digital culture methods network if you're in the north west 🚨
I'm a bit late to John Keatley's less commercial/celebrity based work but this collection somehow seems even more relevant and moving in 2025 hafny.org/blog/2017/2/...
John Keatley's Surprisingly Empathetic Portraits of Real Life Toy Soldiers — Humble Arts Foundation
While John Keatley is most widely known for his commercial photography and advertising campaigns, shooting everyone from Anthony Hopkins to Macklemore with punchy, studio lit, conceptually-driven po...
hafny.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'm a bit late to John Keatley's less commercial/celebrity based work but this collection somehow seems even more relevant and moving in 2025 hafny.org/blog/2017/2/...
Just discovered that I get access to the BFI player through @uomlibrary.bsky.social ... I may be gone for some time
October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Just discovered that I get access to the BFI player through @uomlibrary.bsky.social ... I may be gone for some time
"Nearly 9 hours of celestial magic. A soundtrack for your dreams".
echospace313.bandcamp.com/album/vortex...
echospace313.bandcamp.com/album/vortex...
vortexual [series collection] volume one, by variant
8 track album
echospace313.bandcamp.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Nearly 9 hours of celestial magic. A soundtrack for your dreams".
echospace313.bandcamp.com/album/vortex...
echospace313.bandcamp.com/album/vortex...
I hope this has a really loud alarm at the 20 minute mark and an even louder one at stop now
because I'm trying to get less afraid of JS, I made a silly tool for conference session chairs to pull up on their phones/ipads to keep speakers on time with a 20-minute countdown timer #amsmt25 presentations.meganlavengood.com/timer
October 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I hope this has a really loud alarm at the 20 minute mark and an even louder one at stop now
I'm not sure I'm totally convinced here given the impact of the austerity that followed the global financial crisis based on the intellectual ballast lent by the Rogoff & Reinhart paper. however, respect for holding a grudge for so long ;) www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The perils of centrist economics in a polarised world | Kenneth Rogoff
A decade ago, a prominent analysis was falsely cast as a call for austerity. Our real offence was suggesting there might be a trade-off between debt and growth
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm not sure I'm totally convinced here given the impact of the austerity that followed the global financial crisis based on the intellectual ballast lent by the Rogoff & Reinhart paper. however, respect for holding a grudge for so long ;) www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Nice piece in the Guardian on the pathologies of disciplinary neoliberalisation and social reproduction in Poland echoing my own thinking on this doi.org/10.1177/0309... but adding the idea of loneliness - really fascinating
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Poland’s birth rate is in freefall. The cause? A loneliness epidemic that state cash can’t solve | Anna Gromada
Bonuses for families have done nothing to fix a baby bust caused by post-communist Europe’s relationships crisis, says sociologist Anna Gromada
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Nice piece in the Guardian on the pathologies of disciplinary neoliberalisation and social reproduction in Poland echoing my own thinking on this doi.org/10.1177/0309... but adding the idea of loneliness - really fascinating
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Stuart Shields
I wrote about the stupid white paper.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
Somewhere in the Department for Education, a phone is ringing
On October 20th at a bit after 5pm, the UK government introduced its Education and Skills white paper to Parliament, to absolutely no…
hitchcockian.medium.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I wrote about the stupid white paper.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
Very sad that I'll miss the 6th Global Policy North workshop
@uofglasgow.bsky.social 6-7 Nov 2025 due to another longstanding commitment. CFP attached - do apply if you're working on global governance broadly conceived. it's pluralist and engaged in the best sense and lovely people too!
@uofglasgow.bsky.social 6-7 Nov 2025 due to another longstanding commitment. CFP attached - do apply if you're working on global governance broadly conceived. it's pluralist and engaged in the best sense and lovely people too!
October 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Very sad that I'll miss the 6th Global Policy North workshop
@uofglasgow.bsky.social 6-7 Nov 2025 due to another longstanding commitment. CFP attached - do apply if you're working on global governance broadly conceived. it's pluralist and engaged in the best sense and lovely people too!
@uofglasgow.bsky.social 6-7 Nov 2025 due to another longstanding commitment. CFP attached - do apply if you're working on global governance broadly conceived. it's pluralist and engaged in the best sense and lovely people too!
Starmer's lot are so crap at politics. I managed to fix the headline for the Guardian anyway
September 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Starmer's lot are so crap at politics. I managed to fix the headline for the Guardian anyway
Reposted by Stuart Shields
J. Loginovich & @docstushi.bsky.social provide a CPE perspective on HIC-based SDG governance. Developing the concept of 'ideological fit', they theorise the relationship between institutional diversity and neoliberal hegemony within the SDGs.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony‐Building?
This paper adopts a Critical Political Economy (CPE) perspective to analyse the success or otherwise of the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) Hybrid Institutional Complex (HIC). The paper take...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
J. Loginovich & @docstushi.bsky.social provide a CPE perspective on HIC-based SDG governance. Developing the concept of 'ideological fit', they theorise the relationship between institutional diversity and neoliberal hegemony within the SDGs.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@benjaminfaude.bsky.social kicking off the @globalpolicy.bsky.social journal event on the 10th anniversary of the SDGs: Celebrations or Commiserations
September 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
@benjaminfaude.bsky.social kicking off the @globalpolicy.bsky.social journal event on the 10th anniversary of the SDGs: Celebrations or Commiserations
If you’re interested in the SDGs come and join us in Durham later today!
The SDGs at 10: Please join us for a Special Section Launch event on Friday 12 September 14:00-17:00 (BST).
Contributions by Faude & @jacktaggart.bsky.social; @policyrelevant.bsky.social; @danxuu.bsky.social; K. Abraham; J. Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social; B. Reinsberg.
Comments: Fariborz Zelli
Contributions by Faude & @jacktaggart.bsky.social; @policyrelevant.bsky.social; @danxuu.bsky.social; K. Abraham; J. Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social; B. Reinsberg.
Comments: Fariborz Zelli
September 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If you’re interested in the SDGs come and join us in Durham later today!
Reposted by Stuart Shields
The SDGs at 10: Please join us for a Special Section Launch event on Friday 12 September 14:00-17:00 (BST).
Contributions by Faude & @jacktaggart.bsky.social; @policyrelevant.bsky.social; @danxuu.bsky.social; K. Abraham; J. Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social; B. Reinsberg.
Comments: Fariborz Zelli
Contributions by Faude & @jacktaggart.bsky.social; @policyrelevant.bsky.social; @danxuu.bsky.social; K. Abraham; J. Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social; B. Reinsberg.
Comments: Fariborz Zelli
September 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The SDGs at 10: Please join us for a Special Section Launch event on Friday 12 September 14:00-17:00 (BST).
Contributions by Faude & @jacktaggart.bsky.social; @policyrelevant.bsky.social; @danxuu.bsky.social; K. Abraham; J. Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social; B. Reinsberg.
Comments: Fariborz Zelli
Contributions by Faude & @jacktaggart.bsky.social; @policyrelevant.bsky.social; @danxuu.bsky.social; K. Abraham; J. Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social; B. Reinsberg.
Comments: Fariborz Zelli
Currently not enjoying #EISAPEC2025 as I'm sat in Manchester T2 departures waiting for a delayed flight hoping I don't miss my connection
August 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Currently not enjoying #EISAPEC2025 as I'm sat in Manchester T2 departures waiting for a delayed flight hoping I don't miss my connection
Reposted by Stuart Shields
Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the SDGs, Julija Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social argue that the institutional diversity of the SDG HIC constitutes a way to reorganise inter-and intra-class relations to co-opt a greater variety of policy actors at multiple transnational scales.
Early View Article
United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building?
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/cli...
United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building?
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/cli...
August 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the SDGs, Julija Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social argue that the institutional diversity of the SDG HIC constitutes a way to reorganise inter-and intra-class relations to co-opt a greater variety of policy actors at multiple transnational scales.
Delighted to see this paper out, co-written with Julia Loginovic where we think about what the #SDGs mean. Rather than concern for their apparent failure we argue they do exactly what they're supposed to: commodify and socialise ever more parts of the world under so-called "neoliberal" hegemony ...
Early View Article
United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building?
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/cli...
United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building?
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/cli...
August 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Delighted to see this paper out, co-written with Julia Loginovic where we think about what the #SDGs mean. Rather than concern for their apparent failure we argue they do exactly what they're supposed to: commodify and socialise ever more parts of the world under so-called "neoliberal" hegemony ...
As Simon Jenkins scrambles yet another thousand words on something he knows very little about, I have to ask – why?
I wonder whether the Guardian has ever thought of asking someone who actually knows about universities to write something?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wonder whether the Guardian has ever thought of asking someone who actually knows about universities to write something?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why? | Simon Jenkins
Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
As Simon Jenkins scrambles yet another thousand words on something he knows very little about, I have to ask – why?
I wonder whether the Guardian has ever thought of asking someone who actually knows about universities to write something?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wonder whether the Guardian has ever thought of asking someone who actually knows about universities to write something?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Celebrating the youngest getting into university on the 'wrong' side of the Pennines with six and half hours of two blokes playing records
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RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall
Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. The rarest of rare for RA.1000: this one's special.
When mulling which direction to go in
soundcloud.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Celebrating the youngest getting into university on the 'wrong' side of the Pennines with six and half hours of two blokes playing records
soundcloud.com/resident-adv...
soundcloud.com/resident-adv...