Dr Wamsley completed his PhD at York University, Canada in June 2023. His thesis “Rethinking the Anglo-American Road to Neoliberalism: Public Finance and Welfare from the Gold Standard to the 2008 Crisis and Beyond,” traced the historical development of macroeconomic governance and welfare state politics in the United States and Britain, focusing primarily on the 1970s through the post-2008 period. He has published in Critical Sociology, New Political Economy and Phenomenal World among others.
Dillon joined SPERI in January 2024, and will stay until September 2025. He will be undertaking new research under the title, ‘Crisis Management, Depoliticisation, and Democratic Governance in Transatlantic Politics Since 2008’. His research will evaluate growing political challenges to prevailing macroeconomic paradigms of fiscal discipline and technocratic governance with a particular focus on Britain. His research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Dillon said, "I am thrilled to be joining one of the leading research institutes in critical political economy and to be working with a dynamic community of scholars, including Colin and Andy, on a range of new research projects including SPERI’s new British Political Economy Network."
Professor Andrew Hindmoor, Co-Director of SPERI, commented, "I am hugely looking forward to working with Dillon over the next few years on all of his many research projects and, in particular, to developing with him and with Professor Michael Jacobs the British Political Economy Network".