Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice is a project devised and developed by Dr Robyn Ollett and Dr Rob Hawkes with the support of Teesside University’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).
Dr Robyn Ollett is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Teesside University and a member of Teesside’s Institute for Collective Place Leadership. She is the author of The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film (University of Wales Press, 2024), co-convenor of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies’ LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies Special Interest Group, and a member of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective.
Dr Rob Hawkes is a Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University and a member of Teesside’s Institute for Collective Place Leadership. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns: Edwardian Fiction and the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), a former Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS), and a member of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective.
The ideas underpinning this project began to form during a conversation Robyn and Rob had about queer vampires and “endogenous credit” with their friend and colleague Will Beaman on Money on the Left’s Superstructure podcast in 2024, which you can listen to here.
Robyn and Rob believe that the people and the town of Middlesbrough deserve more credit but that social exclusion and ecological destruction are design features of our present economic system. As they explain in “Why Credit’s Due: Reclaiming Pride in Boro,” they are determined “to explore what it would look like if public credit creation specifically sought to support spaces and initiatives that foster inclusion rather than division” and invite you to join a burgeoning global effort to build “economic systems that recognise the full range of human identities, capacities, and contributions.”
This collaborative project has been developed in partnership with Boro Doughnut, Curious Arts, the Dorman Museum, and Money on the Left:
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