Stanley Wilshire
Stanley is a political economist and PhD student interested in the relationships between the political, economic and technical challenges involved in driving rapid and just transitions within capitalist societies.
I'm a political economist and PhD student interested in the relationships between the political, economic and technical challenges involved in driving rapid and just transitions within capitalist societies.
For my PhD, I'm undertaking a historical and contemporary analysis of the political economy of the British energy transition. This project is funded by the ESRC. Previously I’ve done research on the relationship between central banking and climate change, and on the backlash to UK climate policy by right-wing populists.
While my research is grounded in the field of international political economy, I take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on social and political theory, critical geography, transition studies and heterodox economics.
In 2022 I graduated from the University of Manchester with an MA in International Political Economy (Research Pathway, earning a distinction). My dissertation critically examined the Bank of England’s approach to climate policy and received the Social Responsibility Prize. Before this, I took a BA in Geography at the University of Oxford, graduating with a first-class degree.
