Sharing our findings
We value both traditional academic outcomes and broader engagement to disseminate our research. By utilising diverse avenues such as media engagement, reports, guides, and accessible formats, we strive to amplify our impact, foster understanding of social issues, and drive positive societal change.
2024
- Sharing Untold Stories: Oral Histories and Futures of Austerity and Altered Life-Courses, Invited talk, Geography Semester Opening at University of Bonn, Germany (Laura Fenton, Santiago Leyva del Río, 2024)
- Intimate Infrastructures, Invited Seminar, Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, Italy (Sarah Marie Hall, 2024)
- Intimate Infrastructures, Invited Presentation, Urban Studies Foundation International Workshop: Grassroots Infrastructures and Social Reproduction (Sarah Marie Hall, 2024)
- Sharing experiences of zine-making with Inspire Women Oldham, Urban Studies Foundation International Workshop: Grassroots Infrastructures and Social Reproduction (Inspire Women Oldham and Poppy Budworth, 2024)
- Seeking solidarity, finding friendship: co-creation as method and praxis for feminist economic geographers, Invited Talk, Doing Feminist Economic Geographies event, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (Sarah Marie Hall, 2024)
- Care/ful leadership in research: Collaborative conversations, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Conference, Invited Plenary, Manchester (Anna Tarrant and Sarah Marie Hall, 2024)
- Lives and Afterlives: Economic Change and the Everyday, Distinguished Lecture Series, Liverpool Hope University (Sarah Marie Hall, 2024)
2023
- ‘Can we just take a break?’ The methodological merits and ethical labour of creative biographical interviewing, Paper presented at the International Sociological Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia (Laura Fenton, 2023)
- Working collaboratively with Manchester City Council to co-develop innovative urban policy strategies on poverty and austerity: Overview and reflections. Invited Talk, Engaging with Regional Policymakers training, Policy@Manchester, University of Manchester (Laura Fenton and Alison Briggs, 2023)
- Re-imagining ‘data’ in archives on youth pasts and youth futures. Invited contribution to Special Event on Young Voices and Sociological Archives, British Sociological Association Annual Conference (Laura Fenton and Penny Tinkler, 2023)
- Lives and Legacies of Austerity: Social and Economic Policies for the Future? Invited Keynote, Trafford Council Strategic Partnerships Event (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Reflections on Urban Impact: Everyday Austerity, Urban Reform Coalition Conference, Manchester (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Uchronic Futures: Feeling Out of Time and Out of Place in the Everyday Life of Austerity, University College Dublin Geography Seminar Series and Cardiff University Geogrpahy Seminar Series (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Researching Creatively, Invited Talk, Pint of Science, Manchester (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2023)
- Young people’s activism in times of austerity. Presentation of key findings from PhD research for PhD partner organisation RECLAIM (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2023)
- Living Austerity, Invited Lecture, Oxford University Martin Society (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Friendship, academia and everyday solidarities, Invited Talk, Geographies of Justice Research Group, Royal Geographical Society (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Transport and Economic Austerity policy event, (Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Guest Lecture UAB (Barcelona) Lecture title: ‘Understanding the lives of austerity through creative methods’ (Leyva del Río 2023)
- ‘How austerity alters lives and futures: new insights and solidarities’, three co-chaired panel sessions at the RGS-IBG annual international conference (Elizabeth Ackerley and Sarah Marie Hall, 2023)
- Young people’s activism across the life-course in times of austerity, RGS-IBG annual international conference (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2023)
- Ways of understanding young people’s futures in a context of economic and ecological uncertainty, European Sociological Association Research Network 30 ‘Youth and Generation’ Midterm Conference 2023: Youth in the post-pandemic: from experiences of inequalities to new opportunities for solidarities (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2023)
- Young people’s activism in times of austerity, Research in Practice Leaders’ Forum (Elizabeth Ackerley and Katie Shaw, 2023)
2022
- Hammertown, Milltown and Beyond: Re-imaging the Class and Place in Youth Transitions, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (Laura Fenton, 2022)
- Co-travellers in time? The diverse temporalities of oral history methods, The Timescapes 10 Festival, Online (Laura Fenton, 2022)
- Researching the lifecourse: politics, housing, work and family life, SPOL (Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali) lunchtime seminar, Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Liz Ackerley, October 2022)
- A Pregnant Pause? Waiting, Reproduction and Silences in the Everyday Endurance of Austerity, Geoforum Lecture, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Social reproduction as social infrastructure, Keynote, International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure, Rotterdam (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Guest lecture for UG module ‘Life-course geographies: Social transformation and intergenerational justice’. Lecture title: “Researching the lifecourse: young people’s politics and austerity” (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2022)
- ‘Ruptures’, Invited Talk, Open University (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Invited response to TESG Lecture, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Living Austerity, Inaugural Lecture, University of Manchester (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Sarah Marie. GMPA Roundtable, Invited participant (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- GMPA Invited Panel Guest (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Invited participant, LGBTQ communities and friendship workshop, Edinburgh (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Filmed Contribution for Open University Module ‘Everyday Geographies’ (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Filmed contribution, with project partners, on Co-creation (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Are urban commons self-manageable? Social Movements Research Network-Council for European Studies, Lisbon (Leyva del Río, 2022)
- Sharing reproduction while de-commodifying housing. 17th EASA Biennial Conference, Belfast (Leyva del Río, 2022)
- ‘Mothers, wives, friends: women’s role in London squatting struggles since 1969’. Paper presented at Morgan Centre Internal Conference, University of Manchester (Madeline Routon, 2022)
- Mothers, wives, friends: women’s role in London squatting struggles since 1969’. Paper presented at ‘Towards Just and Equitable Global Political Economies’ PhD Masterclass, University of Manchester (Madeline Routon, 2022)
- Undergraduate students from Hamburg University; discussions on austerity and poverty in Greater Manchester (AALC team, 2022)
2021
- Imagining Future Families? How life-courses and legacies are shaped by austerity, Keynote, The Making and Doing of Family, Trier University (Sarah Marie Hall, 2021)
- Living legacies of austerity, Keynote, Situating Austerity, BSA Early Career Annual Event (Sarah Marie Hall, 2021)
- Oral histories and futures: methodological innovations in times of crisis, Talking Methods Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh (Sarah Marie Hall, 2021)
- Reproductive Rights in Times of Austerity: Insights from Oral Histories and Futures, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Online (Sarah Marie Hall, 2021)
Books
- Contemporary Economic Geographies: Inspiring, Critical and Plural Perspective, Bristol University Press (Johns and Hall Eds 2024)
- Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course, Palgrave MacMillan (Thurnell-Read and Fenton, Editors, 2022)
Book chapters
- 'Life Histories' in Handbook of Feminist Political Geography (Fenton and Hall, forthcoming)
- 'Leaving, staying and returning in fieldwork' in The Routledge Handbook of Field Research (Ackerley and Hall, forthcoming)
- 'The urban everyday: social lives and relationships' in Handbook on Gender and Cities (Budworth and Hall, forthcoming)
Journal articles
- 'Legacies of Austerity' (Introduction to Special Section), The Geographical Journal (Van Lanen and Hall, forthcoming)
- From foreclosure to potentiality, Dialogues in Human Geography (del Río, Hall, Ackerley, Fenton, 2026)
- 'Austere Life-Courses and Foreclosed Futures: A relational geographical approach to work, housing and family across austerity Europe', Geography (Leyva Del Rio, Hall, Ackerley, Fenton, 2025)
- 'Resistance Against and Beyond Financialisation from the Vantage Point of Social Reproduction', Antipode (Leyva del Río, 2024)
- 'Oral Histories and Futures: Researching crises across the life-course and the life-course of crises', Area (Hall, 2023)
- 'Living with other women’s lives: ‘research resonance’ in the context of life history interviewing', Women's History Review (Lang, Fenton and Tinkler, 2023)
- 'Me Too? Re-encountering youth experiences of sexual violence in post-war England from the vantage point of later life', Contemporary British History (Fenton and Tinkler, 2023)
- 'The (im)mobilities of COVID-19 in later life: burning and building generational bridges', Ageing and Society (Tinkler, Lang and Fenton, 2023)
- 'Solidarity and Care in Neoliberal Universities', Agora (Ackerley, Briggs, Fenton, Hall and Levya del Río, 2023)
- 'Social Reproduction, Austerity and Labour: Carrying the Future', The Sociological Review (Hall, 2023)
- 'For Feminist Geographies of Austerity', Progress in Human Geography (Hall, 2022)
- 'The Social Life of Crisis', ISRF Bulletin (Hall, 2022)
- 'A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday', Progress in Human Geography (Holdsworth and Hall, 2022)
- 'Conceptualising the commons as a relational triad: Lessons from the grant of use cooperative housing model in Barcelona'. Geoforum (Leyva del Río 2022)
- 'Introducing ‘resonance’: Revisioning the relationship between youth and later life in women born 1939–52', The Sociological Review (Tinkler, Fenton and Cruz, 2022)
- 'Meeting Doreen Massey', Scottish Geographical Journal, (Hall 2023)
- 'A Pregnant Pause? Reproduction, Waiting and Silences in the Relational Endurance of Austerity', Geoforum (Hall, 2023)
- 'Mothers, wives, friends: women’s role in London squatting struggles since 1969 Gender Place and Culture'(Madeline Routon, 2023)
Reports and policy evidence
- Future-proofing policies to support young people now and in the future (Austerity and Altered Life-Courses team at The University of Manchester, 2025)
- Women's safety, austerity and intersecting crises in Manchester. (Barei-Guyot, with Ackerley & Briggs, 2024)
- Submission to Parliamentary Inquiry into 'Children, young people and the built environment' (Hall, Briggs, Ackerley, Fenton and Leyva del Rio, 2024)
- Current anti-poverty strategies and work in Greater Manchester. (Shannon Jones, Summer 2023)
- Running on empty: Austerity, rising costs of living and growing inequality for people and charitable organisations in Northern England. Independent Social Research Foundation. (Briggs and Hall, 2023
- International innovations in childcare – What can Manchester share and learn? CAPE| Policy@Manchester (Briggs, Cohen, Leyva, Ackerley, Fenton, and Hall, 2023) Read it in: Italiano | Español | Català
- Young people's activism in times of austerity. University of Manchester (Elizabeth Ackerley, 2023)
Blogs
- Stitching Solidarity: Connecting through crafting and making together (Poppy Budworth, Laura Pottinger, and Xin Li, 2024)
- Reproductive Futures in Austerity, Centre for Reproduction Research (2021)
Magazine articles
- Austerity had its own life, The Conversation (2023)
- Stylist Magazine: Mortgage payments are set to soar – so how does this impact renters? (Katie Rosseinsky, 2022, with comment by Alison Briggs)
- “I don’t think I can cope financially”: the people putting off parenthood because of austerity, The Conversation (2021)
Podcasts
- Oral histories and futures with Dr Elizabeth Ackerley and Dr Laura Fenton - Methods talk, Episode 3 (2024)
- How others view Inspire - Season 2, Episode 2, That inspire feeling podcast (2024)
- Cost of living & transport, Streets Ahead podcast, Season 1, Ep. 46 (2022)
Zines
To learn how to create collaborative zines, download this guide on collaborative zine making method co-produced by The Austerity and Altered Life-Courses team, Inspire Women, and the Methods for Change project.
- Creative workshops: Collaborative zine-making, from Anti-Poverty Research Community workshop (2024)
- Co-creation and zine-making zine, from co-creation workshop with Inspire Women (2024)
- Tackling Imposter Syndrome collaborative zine, from workshop with Inspire Women (2024)
- 'Why make a zine?', Inspire Women Oldham and the Austerity and altered life-courses team (2023)
- Researching austerity - Elizabeth Ackerley, Santiago Leyva del Rio, Laura Fenton and Sarah Marie Hall (2024) Doing geography. Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Guide
- Collaborative zine making - Austerity and altered life courses team and Inspire Women Oldham (2023) Methods for Change how to guide. Aspect and the University of Manchester
- Geographies of, in and with austerity - Sarah Marie Hall, Elizabeth Ackerley, Alison Briggs, Laura Fenton and Santiago Leyva del Rio (2023) Working with voluntary and community groups. Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) guide.
- Why make a zine? - Inspire Women Oldham in collaboration with the Austerity and altered life-courses team (2023)
- Oral histories and futures - Sarah Marie Hall and Amy Barron (2021) Methods for Change how to guide. Aspect and the University of Manchester.
- Everyday geographies of austerity: On the stories not told. Decolonising Geography blog (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester, Cost of living crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC Arabic TV, Cost of living crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Quoted in The Independent (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Quoted in Smart Transport Magazine (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on LBC Radio, Transport and cost of living crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on Granada TV, Transport and cost of living crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC North West TV, Transport and cost of living crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester, Transport and cost of living crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC Radio Merseyside, Transport and cost of living crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on Jeremy Vine, Channel 5 TV, Cost of living crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on LBC Radio, Cost of living crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester, Cost of living crisis (Sarah Marie Hall, 2022)
- Investing in public space and social infrastructure for children and young people, Evidence accepted into Parliament (AALC Team, 2024)