We are excited to announce that the brand new SPERI podcast is in development!
A range of limited and ongoing series will fall under the banner of 'SPERI Presents...' that will engage listeners with foundational ideas, key debates and recent developments in political economy.
Led entirely by SPERI colleagues, 'SPERI Presents...' will invite guests from academic and policy circles to offer research-informed and accessible insight into how political economy can help us make sense of the world around us.
Professorial Fellow Michael Jacobs and Mems Ayinla of Sheffield Students Union are shortly to start recording our first limited podcast series!
This first series is entitled 'Lessons in power: What can the next Labour government learn from the last one?' Michael and Mems will be discussing the lessons of the New Labour government of 1997-2010 with a number of cabinet ministers and advisers from that era, looking forward to the new government which looks likely to take office this year.
Guests will former Cabinet Ministers David Blunkett (discussing immigration policy) and Clare Short (discussing overseas development and foreign policy); former special advisers Stewart Wood (on European policy), Carey Oppenheim (on social inclusion and poverty policy) and Meg Russell (on constitutional reform), the former heads of both the No 10 Policy Unit (Nick Pearce) and Strategy Unity (Geoff Mulgan) and both Tony Blair's political secretary Sally Morgan and Gordon Brown's deputy chief of staff Gavin Kelly (on how to manage a Prime Minister).
We hope to put the series out in July and August. Watch this space!