✨ New Global South rep on DSA Council✨

The winner of the online election is Rakiya Mamman with 32% of the total vote.

Rakiya has been highly involved at recent DSA conferences and is also one of the regional convenors of the DSA GS Study Group.

Watch this space for an interview with her.

Development Cooperation at a Tipping Point: How do Policy Norms Break? By Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner The global system of development cooperation is entering uncertain territory. For decades, multilateralism and global solidarity shaped the expectations of how…

“We argue that norms do not collapse overnight. They erode through identifiable mechanisms"

✍🏻 From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2365

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a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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With or without X: can journals engage critically on and with social media owned by tech billionaires? Published in Critical Policy Studies (Vol. 18, No. 4, 2024)

Here is why we start afresh on BlueSky:

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Part of our current series of posts on how to go about making successful partner visa applications. Check this and the others out on our website!

New in LGS@50: in 'Reflections on three decades of digital transformation in local governments'
@milagasco.bsky.social argues for a shift founded in the understanding that technology is an unavoidable tool for local government reform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

I nominate this for best headline of January 2025

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unsurprisingly, complaints about public services have increased significantly since COVID-19:

Keir Starmer appoints Chris Wormald as new cabinet secretary Wormald will take over from Simon Case on 16 December as the most senior official in the country

NEW: Keir Starmer has appointed Chris Wormald, a career civil servant who currently heads the health department, to become new cabinet secretary

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Spoke to the #PeoplePowerPolitics podcast about bureaucratic politics in #Pakistan & how it stalled the country's transition to #democracy 🇵🇰

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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

The Podcast Pod is out, featuring @jacktshaw.bsky.social on his astonishing investigation into the national scandal of temporary accommodation. Plus: A banger and dud inspired by the woke sandwich-filling culture war

If you like the pod, subscribe, follow, leave us a review! (etc)

Decolonising International Research Collaborations Requires us to go Beyond the “Ts and Cs Apply” Approach By Eyob Balcha Gebremariam In February 2024, I found myself at a pivotal moment in the academic landscape, attending a regional network launching event of “Africanist researchers” at one of the UK …

"Coloniality of power conceals the blood, tears and sweat of societies producing our daily consumables. If our pursuit of knowledge through international research collaboration takes this for granted, we are culpable either by omission or commission."
From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1966

Thanks for your patience as we navigated some technical difficulties today! Moving forward, the performance issues you may have noticed should hopefully be resolved.

TL;DR we're so back

NEW: MHCLG opens consultation on sweeping right to buy changes
🏠Council tenants to live in home for approx 10yrs (up fr 3) to qualify
🏠New-build social homes exempt
🏠1-for-1 replacement target for councils
🏠Discounts to fall further - to max of 20%
🏠Repaid if tenants sell w/in 10yrs, up from 5

Ask the Experts: A new political landscape? An exceptional panel of experts with Sir John Curtice FBA, Claire Ainsley and Professor Ben Ansell FBA answer your questions about the new political landscape.

What is the emerging new political landscape in the UK after the General Election as well as wider changes in the world? I'm chairing this event with John Curtice, @claire-ainsley.bsky.social & @benansell.bsky.social on 28 Nov. Register to watch online
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/we-ar...

Biggest overhaul in a generation to children’s social care New powers handed to Ofsted to crack down on exploitative children's care providers and transparency to be increased around their finances.

Welcome reforms to begin to stem the immoral profiteering by children’s homes providers. Acknowledgment that social work requires much better resourcing - just need the resources now!

www.gov.uk/government/n...

I've co-authored a discussion paper on the cultural, creative and heritage sectors and their relationship with devolution with Eliza Easton and Trevor MacFarlane as part of Culture Commons' programme of work on the future of local decision-making.

Graph showing poverty levels including child poverty reaching 36%

Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners)
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

London Councils on LinkedIn: London boroughs stand front and centre, innovating and championing… London boroughs stand front and centre, innovating and championing initiatives, to tackle climate change.  One year ago, the boroughs came together to…

So proud of London Councils and borough colleagues for the way they have come together to boost our collective efforts to tackle #climatechange. Learn more about their work here: www.linkedin.com/posts/london... Or ask @zakbond.bsky.social whom I know would be happy to share more detail.

Human Resource Development Quarterly: Never quite right: Identity Factors experienced by women leaders in the United States by Amy Diehl, Leanne Dzubinski, Amber Stephenson

My new study (N=913) finds 30 identity factors as basis for discrimination against women leaders. Women leaders are “never quite right” as almost any facet of their identity can be declared problematic for a specific woman in a specific context.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The starter pack you have been waiting for: the local government policy and practice crew 🥳

This list of folk engaged in local innovation, ideas & commentary includes people in non-political roles both in and broadly “adjacent” to the sector…

go.bsky.app/VBM66q7

✨Co-conveners of #U20 Rio UCLG and C40Cities recall the goals of the Summit, proposing cross-border solutions through the collective voice of united cities and through:

✅Multilevel collaboration
✅Dedicated funding
✅Influencing national governments

#Listen2Cities

The mayors are here 🥳

I spy @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social too, and not yet fully active @mayorofldn.bsky.social @metromayorsteve.bsky.social…

Research article entitled "When Councillors Sexually Harass: Legislative Sanctions and Gender-Based Violence in Canada’s Municipalities" by Tracey Raney, R. Michael McGregor and Cameron D. Anderson.

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 @traceyraney.bsky.social, Michael McGregor & Cameron Anderson look to non-partisan municipal elections in 🇨🇦 to understand the tolerance of sanctions for sexual harassment when partisanship is not at play.

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