Our people
Our work brings together researchers, associates, and international colleagues who specialise in the field of political economy.
Director
- Dr Adrienne Roberts (Politics - School of Social Sciences)
Associate directors
- Dr Aliki Koutlou (Geography - School of Environment, Education and Development)
- Prof John O'Neil (Philosophy - School of Social Sciences)
Steering committee
- Dr Stuart Shields (Politics - School of Social Sciences)
- Prof Erik Swyngedouw (Geography – School of Environment, Education and Development)
- Prof Karen Sykes (Social Anthropology – School of Social Sciences)
PEC associates come from across the School of Social Sciences (SoSS), the School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), the School of Arts, Languages and Culture (SALC), and the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS). Current active members of the PEC include:
- Pritish Behuria (Global Development Institute)
- Ian Bruff (Politics)
- Greig Charnock (Politics)
- Carl Death (Politics)
- Peter Duberly (PGR, Politics)
- Ellie Gore (Politics)
- Ahlem Faraoun (Geography)
- Gareth Fearn (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Geography)
- John Haskell (Law)
- Anna-Maria Köhnke (PGR, Philosophy)
- Aliki Koutlou (Simon Research Fellow, Geography)
- Arielle Lawson (PGR, Geography)
- Tian Liu (Politics)
- Aino Ursula Maki (PGR, Politics)
- Ujan Natik (PGR, Politics)
- Alex Nunn (Politics)
- John O'Neil (Philosophy)
- Harrison Pincombe (PGR, Politics)
- Adrienne Roberts (Politics)
- Magdalena Rodekirchen (Politics)
- Philipp Roessner (History)
- Ish Tominey-Nevado (PGR, Politics)
- Silke Trommer (Politics)
- Dillon Wamsley (Bi-Centennial Research Fellow, Politics/Political Economy Centre)
- Robert Watt (Politics)
- Georgina Waylen (Politics)
- Stanley Wiltshire (PGR, Politics)
Please get in touch if you would like to get involved in the Centre's activities.
- Richard Appelbaum - Professor of Sociology, and Global and International Studies. University of California at Santa Barbara.
- Geoffrey Brennan - Professor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Australian National University.
- Robin Cohen - Professor Emeritus of Development Studies. University of Oxford.
- Andrew Gamble - Emeritus Professor of Politics. Cambridge University.
- Gerald Epstein - Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute. University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- Laura Horn - Assistant Professor of Global Political Economy. Roskilde University.
- Sanford Jacoby - Howard Noble Professor of Management, Public Affairs and History. Anderson School of Management, UCLA.
- Arjo Klamer - Professor of the Economics of Art and Culture. Erasmus University.
- Joan Martinez-Alier - Professor of Economics and Economic History. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
- Tony Payne - Co-Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, University of Sheffield.
- Jamie Peck - Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography. University of British Columbia.
- Spike Peterson - Professor of International Relations. School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona.
- Sharin Rai – Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick.
- John Ravenhill - Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science. University of Waterloo.
- Susanne Soederberg - Professor of Global Development Studies. Queen’s University, Canada.
- Diana Tussie - Professor. FLACSO Argentina (Latin American School of Social Sciences) and at CONICET (Argentinian National Council for Technical and Scientific Research).
- Robert Wade - Professor of Political Economy and Development. London School of Economics and Political Science.
Professor Stephanie Wöhl, Visiting Professor (semester 1) 2025
Stefanie Wöhl is Professor of Political Science at the University of Economics, Management and Finance BFI Vienna (UAS BFI Vienna). Professor Wöhl’s internationally renowned research experience and expertise stretches across the fields of European Integration, international political economy and gender, gendered state and democracy theory, and social reproduction theories. She held the EU Jean Monnet Chair on “Diversity and Social Cohesion in the European Union” from 2019 -2022 and was the Head of European and International Studies at UAS BFI Vienna from 2015 to 2018. Her previous work with Nancy Fraser (2011-2013) addressed questions of democratic accountability within multiple crises, and she has pursued a research agenda focused on uneven developments in the global political economy during her time at the University of Vienna, the University of Kassel, and the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD). Her two main current research projects focus on the financialization of housing and affordable living in Europe (2022-2025), and the new EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (2024-2027).
Laura Macdonald is a Full Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. She has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections on such issues as the role of non-governmental organizations in development, global civil society, social policies and citizenship struggles in Latin America, Canadian development assistance, Canada-Latin American relations and the political impact of North American economic integration. Her recent work looks at transnational activism in North America around labour rights, migration, and human rights in Mexico, trade and gender, and policies to reduce crime and violence in Mexico City. She engages in public commentary and advocacy as member of the McLeod Group, the Americas Policy Group and the Canadian civil society Feminist Foreign Policy group.
Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (Pluto Press, 2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), which was the recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (with Andreas Bieler, Cambridge University Press, 2018), and editor of the volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography (with Stuart Elden, University of Minnesota Press, 2022).
Past VPs include:
- Stephen Gill (York University, Canada)
Past fellows include:
- Katharine Knox
- Larry Lohmann (The Corner House)
- Nick Hildyard (The Corner House)