Dr Liam Stanley

Department of Politics and International Relations

Lecturer

l.m.stanley@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1705

G65, Elmfield Building

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Dr Liam Stanley
Department of Politics and International Relations
G65
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU

Profile

I am a Lecturer in Politics and an Associate Fellow at SPERI. My research is centred on developing innovative methods and approaches to make sense of how the world has changed since the 2008 global financial crisis.

I have held visiting fellowships at the University of Amsterdam, European University Institute, and Copenhagen Business School, and my research has been funded by the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy.

Research interests

I am currently working on three projects:

After neoliberalism? Austerity, life, and death in a post-crisis world

How did we get from the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 to the nativist backlashes that characterise contemporary politics? In addressing this question, this book project will contribute to our understanding of the post-crisis world.

Public attitudes toward ‘the underserving rich’ (with Todd Hartman)

The notion of an ‘undeserving rich’ has percolated in the West since 2008. The project uses novel experimental methods to examine what people find more unfair: tax evasion by the wealthy, or welfare fraud by the poor?

Reimagining tax through speculative design (with Rebecca Bramall)

This collaborative project aims to co-produce an alternative to the UK government’s ‘Annual Tax Summary’ using a methodology informed by speculative design. The results will be published in a report, and will be exhibited in October 2018 as part of the London Design Festival.

Publications

Journal articles

Hunt T & Stanley L (2019) From ‘there is no alternative’ to ‘maybe there are alternatives’: Five challenges to economic orthodoxy after the crash. The Political Quarterly, 90(3), 479-487. View this article in WRRO
Stanley L & Hartman T (2018) Tax Preferences, Fiscal Transparency, and the Meaning of Welfare: An Experimental Study. Political Studies, 66(4), 830-850. View this article in WRRO
Stanley LM (2016) Governing austerity in the United Kingdom: anticipatory fiscal consolidation as a variety of austerity governance. Economy and Society, 45(3-4), 303-324. View this article in WRRO
Stanley LM & Jackson R (2016) Introduction: Everyday Narratives in World Politics. Politics, 36, 223-235. View this article in WRRO
Stanley LM (2016) Using focus groups in political science and international relations. Politics, 36(3), 236-249. View this article in WRRO
Stanley LM (2016) Legitimacy gaps, taxpayer conflict, and the politics of austerity in the UK. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 18(2), 389-406. View this article in WRRO
Stanley LM, Deville J & Montgomerie J (2016) Digital Debt Management: The Everyday Life of Austerity. New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics, 87, 64-82. View this article in WRRO

Reports

Stanley L & Hartman TK (2016) Welfare recipients, public opinion and ‘deservingness’
Stanley L & Hartman TK (2015) Annual Tax Summaries

Research group: I am interested in supervising enthusiastic and dedicated students on any topic within my areas of interest. I am currently supervising doctoral students on topics that include the everyday political economy of globalisation, the new politics of industrial policy, neo-liberalism in Zambia, and youth political participation.

Grants

Key projects/grants

Awarding Body: ESRC/University of Sheffield
People Involved: Principal Investigator, with Rebecca Bramall (LCC)
Title of Research: Reimagining tax through speculative design
Years funded for: 2017-18
£ Amount: £8,000

Awarding Body: British Academy/Leverhulme
People Involved: Principal Investigator, with Todd Hartman (Sheffield Methods Institute) and Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School)
Title of Research: Paying for the Poor in Age of Austerity: A Comparative Experimental Study
Years funded for: 2015-16
£ Amount: £9,990

Teaching activities

I currently lead two modules:

POL120 Analysing Politics
POL6607 Approaches to Political Economy