St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series takes place during term time on Wednesday evenings, 18:00-19:30.The current theme for the series of presentations is the 'Economics of Austerity'.The seminars are held in St Catharine's College, Cambridge, usually in the Ramsden Room but sometimes in the McGrath Centre.All are welcome to attend the seminars.

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series is a general podcast hosted by Cambridge University, with 26 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Cambridge University hosts St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series, a general show with 26 episodes published.

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  Urban Mobility: how the iphone, covid and climate changed everything - Associate Professor Shauna Brail - 11 November 2024

  Nov 19, 202442 minS0

  Talk Overview This talk draws on insights from the recently published book - Urban Mobility: How the iPhone, Covid and Climate Changed Everything. As a starting point, it explores the profound changes associated with technological innovation, pandemic-induced impacts on travel behaviour, and the urgent need for mobility to respond meaningfully to the climate crisis. By illuminating novel research findings related to a variety of modes of mobility, including public transit, e-scooters, bike-sharing, ride-hailing, and autonomous vehicles, Brail will draw out the connections between urban challenges, technological change, societal needs and governance approaches. Together, these case studies provide compelling evidence of...

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  Professor Harry Garretsen 'Economic geography meets psychology' - 11 Nov 2024

  Nov 11, 202449 minS0

  Harry Garretsen is Professor of International Economics & Business at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His main research interests are international economics & geography, and leadership and management. He serves on the editorial boards of various international journals, is active as an economic policy adviser, inter alia as a member of the Banking Council of the Dutch central bank. He co-directs, together with Janka Stoker, In the LEAD, a centre of expertise on leadership at the University of Groningen (https://www.rug.nl/inthelead/). His research is summarized in An Introduction to Geographical and Urban Economics: A spiky world, Cambridge University...

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  Richard Lewney -'Policies to promote low-carbon technological development'

  Apr 2, 202054 minS0

  Richard Lewney is Chair of Cambridge Econometrics. Over the past four years Richard Lewney has directed two major research projects for DG Energy to improve the methods of modelling the macroeconomic impacts of low-carbon policies. These have included a better treatment of the roles played by finance and innovation, of regional and income distribution impacts, and also of the relevance of other megatrends to the low-carbon transition. Over 2017-19 Richard Lewney has directed projects for the European Climate Foundation examining: (i) the technological costs and economic impacts of alternative pathways to a net-zero GHG emissions European economy by 2050 and (ii...

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  Terry Barker -'The institutional capture of IPCC economics by neoclassical ideology'

  Feb 26, 202047 minS0

  Terry Barker was a Coordinating Lead Author in the IPCC reports AR3 and AR4, 1996-2006, writing the chapters for sectoral mitigation. He was also a member of the team preparing the Synthesis Report for AR3, covering climate science, adaptation and mitigation. He led the writing group of scientists answering the question: "What are the most robust findings and key uncertainties ... regarding model projections of ... costs and benefits of mitigation and adaptation options?" He is the Founder and Director of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) in Land Economy. He is now a Senior Departmental Fellow in Cambridge...

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  Franziska Sielker- 'A Planner’s Perspective – The Use of Spatial Analysis for Policy Making in Border Regions'

  Feb 5, 202054 minS0

  Franziska Sielker is a Lecturer, Planning and Housing, at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Land Economy. Before taking up the Lectureship, Dr Sielker has been Lead Researcher on a project of ‘Future Cities in the Making- Overcoming Barriers to Information Modelling’, funded by the Centre for Digital Built Britain and a British Academy Newton International Postdoc Fellow for a project on power relationships in European spatial policies. Frannziska Sielker has been Interim Professor and Acting Chair of the Chair of ‘International Planning Studies’ in the academic year 2018/2019 at the TU Dortmund University, Germany. Her PhD was at the Univ...

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