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Here you can read the latest news and views from our Fellows and associates. Many articles are also reprinted in the ISRF Bulletin, the Foundation’s in-house periodical.

The Blog and Bulletin are edited by Baindu Kallon.

Latest blog post

Grassroots music collectives as research, practice and possibility

by Kristina Kolbe

Creative industries in the UK can be exclusionary; often shaped by structural inequalities and marked by precariousness. How do creatives navigate this landscape? Kristina Kolbe examines how grassroots music collectives create space to build creative networks that centre community and care.

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Notes Towards a Social University

by Christopher Newfield

The current higher education system in the UK is in crisis and its role in society continues to be questioned. Within this disarray emerges opportunities to rethink what a university can be. In this monthly Director's Note, Christopher Newfield explores the idea of a social university, one that is truly open to its community.

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Freeports Exposed: Corruption, Harm and the Politics of Rule-Shifting

This report examines the realities beneath the language of “levelling up”, competitiveness and renewal. It argues that UK freeports must be understood not simply as experimental economic tools, but as an increasingly common spatial strategy in which legal, political and institutional norms are selectively reworked.

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