@fhpitts
Political Economist & Head of Humanities & Social Sciences at University of Exeter in 〓〓 | Centre for Public Understanding of Defence & Security | Critical Minerals Challenge Centre | Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Quoted in todays @theguardian.com on the latest progress in Cornwall's contribution to the country's energy & mineral security, alongside Critical Minerals Challenge Centre colleague Frances Wall & @perranmoonmp.bsky.social: theguardian.com/environment/...
@uniofexeternews.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
From national resilience to national renewal? Wrote up some remarks on our home defence paper for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, asking whether Labour's long-promised 'defence conversation' will find, to paraphrase Thatcher, no such thing as 'whole-of-society' after all: renewal.org.uk/blog/resilie...
This looks very timely.
From national resilience to national renewal? Wrote up some remarks on our home defence paper for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, asking whether Labour's long-promised 'defence conversation' will find, to paraphrase Thatcher, no such thing as 'whole-of-society' after all: renewal.org.uk/blog/resilie...
Find out more about the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence & Security here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research-cen...
@spspa-uofexeter.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
"The UK faces critical vulnerabilities when compared to allied countries...Home defence should be treated as a strategic necessity in the face of persistent and escalating threats"
You can read more about our new policy paper via
@uniofexeternews.bsky.social here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
"Without immediate clarity of purpose, strong governance, and rapid mobilisation of resources, the UK risks critical strategic vulnerability at a time when adversaries are already acting."
Read "Making Sense of Home Defence: From Planning to Practice" here: www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/rese...
New policy paper exploring the concept of home defence & whole-of-society security/resilience in the UK.
Published by the Centre for the Public Understanding of Defence & Security at @exeter.ac.uk.
Coauthored with Frances Tammer & Gareth Stansfield with a Foreword by Paul Cornish: t.co/hloNsXAYaJ
Did you know that security is being used as a lever to attract economic development in rural regions? Sign up for the RSA Edgenet webinar talking about what it means for peripheries in a new era of geopolitical instability.
Wednesday 4 February, 9-10.30 am
👉 www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-r...
The report has identified six areas of focus to help leverage more SME participation in UK defence as a rallying call is issued for joint industry and government collaboration - @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @fhpitts.bsky.social
www.babcockinternational.com/news/babcock...
NEW ISSUE: Renewal 33/3&4
Guest co-edited by @neilwarner.bsky.social & @beccagold.bsky.social, this special double issue features nineteen (19) brilliant essays analysing Labour's statecraft and debating the strategic challenges for social democracy in Britain and beyond
🇪🇺🇬🇧The final day of the 11th Oxford Symposium opens with the plenary on “#Industrial strategy and grand transformations”.
With:
🔺@jrgingrich.bsky.social
🔺Rachel Blake, MP
🔺 Theo Cox
The 11th Oxford Symposium launches the book “The Great Unravelling”.
📕 bit.ly/GreatUnravel...
Preparing for Putin's Intermittent War - why we have to harden UK society against the kind of treatment Ukraine is suffering - open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/p...
Professor @fhpitts.bsky.social from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @exeterspspa.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall ahead of the #budget today
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Great to see our @ukri.org Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk mentioned in Vision 2035, the government's new Critical Minerals Strategy. As test case for securonomics in action, it has a clear focus on Cornwall's tin, tungsten & lithium. 🔗in thread below
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The new Critical Minerals Strategy speaks to ongoing work with @progbrit.bsky.social & @feps-europe.eu on industrial policy against a backdrop of geopolitical competition for power & control over resources like critical minerals, with Cornwall a case study: www.progressivebritain.org/the-chancell...
I recently published a policy briefing looking towards the new Critical Minerals Strategy as the government's 'securonomics' agenda in action - a testbed of reindustrialisation in pursuit of both national security & environmental sustainability: criticalmineralschallengecentre.co.uk/publications...
You can read more about how the new Critical Minerals Strategy chimes with the research & policy work of our Critical Minerals Challenge Centre, bringing together Camborne School of Mines with @hass-cornwall.bsky.social & more, via @uniofexeternews.bsky.social here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Great to see our @ukri.org Critical Minerals Challenge Centre at @exeter.ac.uk mentioned in Vision 2035, the government's new Critical Minerals Strategy. As test case for securonomics in action, it has a clear focus on Cornwall's tin, tungsten & lithium. 🔗in thread below
www.gov.uk/government/p...
NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2
Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond
Dr Joanie Willett from @hass-cornwall.bsky.social spoke to BBC South West about tourism in Cornwall 🏖️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...
The latest in our series of short videos about the interdisciplinary research colleagues do at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social. Watch the full series here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/research/
Falling youth turnout is an existential threat to our democracies. @hass-cornwall.bsky.social are studying how volunteering can reconnect young people from the poorest backgrounds with elections.
Find out more in our new ‘Research Shorts' series.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgS...
Next in our series of Research Shorts is Prof. Jamie Hampson on rock art.
Humans have been creating rock art for more than 70,000 years. At HaSS Cornwall we consider why, and think about how understanding art helps us understand what it means to be human.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAf0...
Tradition is not only about continuity – it can also be about change.
At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore how continuous ritual traditions have been interpreted in radically different ways across the centuries.
Find out more in our new Research Shorts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-n...
You can watch the full series of videos at our website here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/research/
@exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social
'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum.
At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability.
Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos:
youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...
My colleague Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social launches our new @hass-cornwall.bsky.social short video series with a brilliant reflection on remembrance & forgetting.
Hear more about our interdisciplinary research here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/research/
@uniofexeternews.bsky.social
Me for @progbrit.bsky.social on the Chancellor's visit to South Crofty in Cornwall yesterday.
The critical minerals sector symbolises some of the promise of 'securonomics', its importance recognised in both industrial policy & national security strategy.
www.progressivebritain.org/the-chancell...