This book contests the hegemonic discourse around ‘worklessness’ – and dominant definitions of what we recognize as ‘work’. It argues the current ‘crisis’ in economic inactivity is merely the latest in a Read more
The German VOICES team has reached an important milestone: with the final focus group in Weißwasser on 27 May 2026, the WP2 fieldwork phase is officially wrapped up! The numbers speak for Read more
May 7 saw elections in some UK councils and in Scotland and Wales. In England Reform were the biggest winner. They gained 1,454 seats, the former industrial areas of Tyneside, West and Read more
On 23-24 April 2026, Anke Fiedler from University of Greifswald gave a keynote speech on the topic of “Locality Constructed, Contested, and Lived: Rethinking Media Inequality in Post-Industrial Communities” at the workshop Read more
Drawing on the UK data, the paper “Voices from the Periphery: discourses of marginalisation and lost futures in deindustrialised communities in England’s North” will be presented at the UK Political Studies Association Read more
Our project team will host an IAMCR pre-conference in Dublin on the topic of “Representations of (Post-)Industrial Communities: Voice, Visibility and Value”. The Call for Papers can be found here and below. Read more
A contribution by the two VOICES team members, Anke Fiedler and James Morrison, on the relationship between mass media regulation and social inequality in a UK–Germany comparative perspective has just been published Read more
The publication of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 25, 30 October 2025, by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) demonstrates continuing inequalities across the UK which has a severe Read more
The British-German VOICES team was represented with two presentations at this year’s MeCCSA Annual Meeting in Edinburgh: The conference also saw James Morrison awarded a runners-up certificate in the Best Edited Collection Read more
As part of our ongoing research, members of our UK-team have submitted written evidence to a committee inquiry of the British Parliament. The inquiry on “Local bus services in England” asked for Read more