ISRF Newsletter – November 2025 This month's newsletter features a Director's Note from @cnewf addressing the UK governments recent Post-16 Education & Skills white paper. Also included: upcoming ISRF events, Fellows news and our latest blog posts. https://t.co/mC1ffAxlxa

New Article: ISRF Early Career Fellow Arash Beidollahkhani, "From predicting dissent to programming power; analyzing AI-driven authoritarian governance in the Middle East through TRIAD framework" in @democ_journal https://t.co/ztGL5ufMXt

Join us in person at UCL, or online, at 6pm on 9th December. Register at

Lars will be joined by @Gargi_at_home, Director of the @UCL_SPRC at @UCL_IAS; Siddhant Issar, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the @uofl; and @MelaynaKay, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Law, London.

Fair housing protections in NY extend to citizenship & immigration status. Regardless of whether you are a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or undocumented, you cannot be denied housing for that reason. Protect your rights. (631) 567-5111 ext. 375

Lars Cornelissen is a historian of neoliberalism. His writings have been published in History of European Ideas, Constellations, and Modern Intellectual History. He is the ISRF's Academic Coordinator, as well as a Lecturer in Politics at @ManMetUni.

The book argues that neoliberal ideology is constitutively racialised - that it cannot be divorced from its racial foundations without rendering it incoherent & unrecognisable - using historical methods to reconstruct neoliberal ideas of race.

In his new book, 'Neoliberalism and Race', @LSCornelissen revisits the history of neoliberal ideas through the lens of race. He maps out how neoliberal thinkers like Hayek, Bauer and Sowell conceptualised racial difference, sometimes explicitly and sometimes in more coded terms.

Book Launch: Neoliberalism and Race, by @LSCornelissen Tuesday 9th December 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person at @UCL_SPRC. What did neoliberalism’s intellectual advocates have to say about race? More Info:

Join us at The Leeds Library, or online, at 6pm on 20th November 2025 - register at

Lisa will be joined by Mike Makin-Waite, author of 'On Burnley Road' (2021); Tim Strangleman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent; & Valerie Walkerdine, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Author Lisa Taylor is Reader in Cultural Studies at @leedsbeckett. In 2021 she was awarded an ISRF Mid-Career Fellowship which enabled her to work collaboratively with a former textiles community to create the ‘Landscapes of Loss: Revaluing Labour, Remaking Community’ project.

Book Launch: Threads of Labour: Tapestry of an Ex-Industrial Community Thursday 20th November 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person at @theleedslibrary Threads of Labour examines how art & industrial heritage foster cohesion in postindustrial communities https://t.co/Y2q9Qoqpyt

November 2025 ISRF Director’s Note: Labour’s White Paper Fails Higher Education @cnewf argues Labour’s White Paper promotes universities as drivers of growth with no new funds, worsening deficits via cuts, mergers & neglect of education’s social value https://t.co/5nnqsgLBCt

Why Is There So Much Research About Us Without Us? @DrHelenKara and @autgeek outline why #neurodivergent led research is essential to building trust in communities and affirming neurodivergent ways of being. https://t.co/KFGTlL7Diq

Delighted to receive my copy of the Indian edition of this collection, edited with @rikjaz. A long time coming but great to have an affordable option.... https://t.co/04E5L11oSS

New paper alert! Decline by design: Assessing decline policies as a decarbonisation strategy under the Paris Agreement | PLOS One. ⁦@gregtrencher⁩ ⁦@sus_pol⁩ ⁦@SussexGlobal⁩ ⁦@SPRU⁩ ⁦@IISD_Energy⁩ ⁦@SEIclimate⁩

Reimagining Victims’ Reparations: Building a Global Network for Grassroots Justice @researchCol, Matt Snell & @camilotamayog on reimagining reparations from below, as processes rooted in the voices, agency, and creative energies of victims themselves. https://t.co/gyzWr1rWw4

'Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation' by Antonio A. Casilli reveals how AI still relies on human labor, even yours. #BookOfTheDay: https://t.co/U2zEbKNZ4J

Delighted to have my work on affective tension monitoring and the internal security apparatus accepted in Social and Legal Studies. This is the pre-print version.

I thought I was going to shelve my student podcast when I left Warwick, but im delighted that my students in the @UniofGalwayLaw and @IrishCentreHR criminology and human rights LLM have taken up the role as student-producers. First up is Orla White: