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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

How Ukraine’s strikes on Russian warehouses became a problem in Kyrgyzstan

by Claudia Eggart

Latest blog post

The Two-Tier University

by Eva Nanopoulos

What does it mean to work in the UK's higher education system today? For many academics, it involves confronting increasingly narrow career pathways, from teaching only contracts to conducting 'strategic' research. In this contribution to our Dispatches series, Eva Nanopoulos interrogates how the university's two-tier system divides staff, reinforces precarity and extracts more labour from academics.

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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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