Professor of economic geography at the University of Cambridge. Researches austerity, labour, debt, gender & sustainable regional economies. @mia-gray.bsky.soc
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Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"
authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray
is now available free online: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Clearly, time to post this link again ... we argue electricity should be a basic human right and should be considered part of a social minimum. (free access)
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OnlineFirst - "Interfaces of precarity and the networks of precarious lifeworlds: Experiences of housing, social supports, and work in youth homelessness" by Benjamin Owens:
#precariouswork #homelessness #youth #housinginsecurity #labourgeography
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A fabulous initiative. Apply!
📢 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: USF International Fellowships for urban scholars from the Global South. Deadline 6th July 2026. Read more & apply to this grant funding here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/f…
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Free to download -- Handbook of Labour Geography (Andy Herrod editor).
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It was a real pleasure to write a chapter in the Handbook of Labour Geography. The editor, Andy Herod, was a joy to work with and the collection itself looks great.
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40 years after the miners' strike, austerity still haunts the UK’s coalfields.
New RSA blog by David Etherington, @_mia_gray & Lisa Buckner shows £32.6bn cut from these communities since 2010. Local gov gap now: £447M.
Read: bit.ly/40d9jSm
@regstud
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Imagine what could be done with this revenue.
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I wish the media cared as much about the 131k staff vacancies in social care as they do about the 0.3% of millionaires who left the UK.
Imagine all those column inches dedicated to thinking about how we tackle chronic low pay & insecure work in the sector taxjustice.net/press/million…
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Another amazing publication!! Well done Coco Huggins and @_mia_gray for this piece, which is so important in light of the ongoing challenges of austerity. @UoBCHASM, will be of particular interest for your researchers.
Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"
authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray
is now available free online: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
We argue:
•Place-based solidarity helps us understand how a shared commitment to place can keep services running under austerity.
•Place-based solidarity has tensions and limits. It is not currently a sustainable solution to the retreat of the state.
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What is local government financialisation? Four empirical channels to clarify the roles of local government debates paper by @HaHasenberger
ow.ly/LteY50T3qEg
#OpenAccess #financialisation #LocalGovernment
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New analysis Andy Pike and I published on Friday revealed that authorities are forecasting a £9.3 billion deficit by 2026-27. Based on their Medium Term Financial Strategy, only 14 authorities estimate they'll balance their budget:
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My @guardian story: More than 1m of the UK's poorest households to get £420 budget boost in universal credit change theguardian.com/society/2024…
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Positive first step to tackling deep poverty in this Budget. Debt deductions from Universal Credit are a key driver of food bank need & this will ease the burden. Also great to see government frame this as a first step on a longer journey. 1/3
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“I’m trying to think of any possible justification for paying William, a 42-year old public servant, more than £23m and of course there is none. If you question it, the whole edifice crumbles” My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
