Tom Hunt
Deputy Director and Policy Research Associate, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute
The battle to shape workers’ rights has just begun
Tom Hunt - 12 February 2020Leaving the EU means our rights at work will now be shaped by the UK government, and that means they will become a key area of political contest. This is the third part in SPERI’s new series on Brexit, the Conservative Majority and the UK Political Economy.
Why we are introducing new inclusivity and diversity guidelines for the SPERI blog
Ellie Gore, Natalie Langford & Tom Hunt - 25 January 2020Through our new guidelines we aim to help political economy become a more diverse and inclusive intellectual discipline.
2008 is dead, long live 2008! Or, how we learned to imagine the unimaginable
Liam Stanley & Tom Hunt - 11 September 2018What’s changed in the ten years since the global financial crisis in 2008?
Building up the bundle of sticks. New ideas for union organising
Tom Hunt - 05 June 2018A new mini-series of blogs, published by SPERI and openDemocracy, will present new ideas for how unions can organise and engage with the workforce
Who governs local economies?
Tom Hunt - 24 November 2015Cities like Sheffield need more skilled jobs, but delivering them has to be both a national and a local priority
Austerity rests on a thesis the government doesn’t believe in
Tom Hunt & Craig Berry - 01 September 2015Concentration of infrastructure investment in areas with high levels of business activity suggests the government is unconcerned by ‘crowding out’
Transport investment and the North’s development dilemmas
Tom Hunt & Craig Berry - 28 July 2015The gap between rhetoric and reality with regard to transport investment in the North of England encapsulates all the problems of Northern economic development