How do we study contemporary forms of startup capitalism under which work unfolds seemingly everywhere? How do we study labour when it is presented to us as enjoyable and fun, and as not work at all? This talk offers one conceptual navigation of these times, developing “labour as method” to meet the fragmentation of work and life across city spaces, sites of work and home, and blurred boundaries between labour and leisure.

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Can legal empowerment support forcibly displaced people when they face high levels of violence and exploitation and few incentives to report? We study demand for and impact of legal empowerment through a randomized control trial with 1,707 displaced people in Greece. Using an encouragement design, we explore variation in information seeking behavior and the impact of information. At baseline, nearly half of the study participants were unaware of how to seek help after experiencing violence.

[joint work with: Vera E. Troeger (Uni Hamburg) and Philip Manow (Uni Siegen)]

(book project with Spencer Goidel, Auburn University and Paul M. Kellstedt, Texas A&M)

Ukraine, without a recognisable Navy at the start of Russia’s 2022 full scale invasion, has achieved some remarkable successes in the Black Sea, but has it demonstrated revolution, or evolution and if so, what can it tell Naval planners about possible future trends of warfare at sea?

Commander Walton is the 2024-25 Royal Navy Hudson Fellow at St Antony’s College and a visiting research fellow at SST-CCW. He commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1992 from Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and holds a Masters in Applied Security Strategy from the University of Exeter.