Karel Williams

WISERD Fellow Manchester University

karel.williams@manchester.ac.uk

Karel Williams Bio

WISERD Foundational Economy Research Network

Led by Karel Williams at the University of Manchester and with a web site dedicated to the growing field of Foundational Scholarship and practice (https://foundationaleconomy.com/) this network has members from stakeholder organisations and academic institutions and meets regularly in Cardiff. The network has built on ESRC IAA funding awarded to Kevin Morgan to extend the…

Research Team: Andrew Sayer (Lancaster University), Filippo Barbera (University of Torino), Ian Rees Jones (Cardiff University), Julie Froud (Manchester University), Karel Williams (Manchester University), Kevin Morgan (Cardiff University)

Foundational economy, citizenship and new forms of common ownership

Foundational economy, citizenship and new forms of common ownership explores place-based solutions and experiments with social mechanisms and new institutional forms that provide the material basis for citizenship. It looks at how Foundational Economy approaches can promote civic gain and address contemporary social and economic policy concerns at regional and local levels, focusing on food,…

Research Team: Bernd Bonfert (Cardiff University), Filippo Barbera (University of Torino), Julie Froud (Manchester University), Karel Williams (Manchester University)

Academic Social Care Research Collaboration

Overview Working in partnership across Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea Universities and funded by the NISCHR, the All Wales Academic Social Care Research Collaboration (ASCC) sought to strengthen the capacity of HEIs and their partner agencies to deliver on an agreed and prioritised research agenda to respond to national and local needs. The three regional teams contributed to…

Research Team: Catherine A Robinson (Bangor University), Diane Seddon (Bangor University), Gareth Rees (Cardiff University), Judith Phillips (University of Stirling), Julie Froud (Manchester University), Karel Williams (Manchester University), Luke Cowie (Cardiff University), Martin O'Neill (Cardiff University), Nick Andrews (Swansea University), Paula Hyde (Manchester University), Sukhdev Johal (Queen Mary University of London), Victoria Macfarlane (Keele University)

Reports and Briefings

Serious About Green? – Building a Welsh wood economy through co-ordination

This report is about building a new resource reliance system, wood economy, where the carbon sequestration benefits of afforestation can be levered by a strategy of downstream value capture for higher value products. The report explains that this opportunity can only be realised through supply chain co-ordination which has been absent in Wales where strategic…

Books and Book Chapters

The Foundational Economy and Citizenship – Comparative Perspectives on Civil Repair

Introduction The Foundational Economy and the Civil Sphere | Filippo Barbera and Ian Rees Jones Part 1: Governance and Public Action Re-embedding the Economy within Digitalized Foundational Sectors: The Case of Platform Cooperativism | Davide Arcidiacono and Ivana Pais Reframing Public Ownership in the Foundational Economy: (Re)discovering a Variety of Forms | Leonhard Plank The Nonprofit Paradox…

Civil Society | WISERD Foundational Economy Research Network | September 2020

Social innovation in home care front cover

Reports and Briefings

Why we need social innovation in home care for older people

This CRESC/WISERD report “provides a critique of why those responsible for commissioning care in the home have made uneven and inconsistent progress towards personalisation and outcome-based commissioning. It goes on to propose an alternative radical social innovation approach to thinking about ways in which home care can effectively and consistently deliver choice, control and independence across the board.”…

Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | Academic Social Care Research Collaboration | September 2016

Reports and Briefings

Where does the money go? Financialised chains and the crisis in residential care

The citizen’s summary of the full report is business and organised money have a political advantage in matters of public policy around outsourced services because the average citizen does not have the knowledge or confidence to engage critically with this kind of financial issue. A democracy where business and finance are socially accountable requires citizens with…

Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | Academic Social Care Research Collaboration | March 2016

Video

WISERD 2014 Annual Conference: Professor Karel Williams

An overview of Karel Williams’ keynote from the 2013 WISERD Annual Conference.

Localities | July 2014

News

Launch Conference for Foundational Alliance Wales

8th December 2022 | Julie Froud, Karel Williams

With over 40 delegates and more presenters and delegates joining online, the hybrid conference launched the Foundational Alliance project of building alliances for change and foundational renewal in Wales. A combination of presentations and workshop discussions highlighted foundational objectives and ways of working which can sustain household liveability and responsible providers within planetary limits.

Civil Society, Research Networks | WISERD Foundational Economy Research Network

News

Foundational renewal: Transforming reliance systems in the wake of COVID-19

21st September 2021 | Bernd Bonfert, Filippo Barbera, Ian Rees Jones, Julie Froud, Karel Williams, Kevin Morgan

WISERD’s third foundational economy conference, held online earlier this month, brought together researchers and practitioners from across the UK and beyond, to discuss how the foundational economy can be rebuilt, enhanced and sustained in response to new and old challenges magnified by the pandemic. Over three days, an expert panel of speakers and discussants from…

Civil Society, Research Networks | Foundational economy, citizenship and new forms of common ownership, WISERD Foundational Economy Research Network

News

COVID-19 Report from the Foundational Economy Collective

17th April 2020 | Filippo Barbera, Ian Rees Jones, Julie Froud, Karel Williams, Kevin Morgan

The team of researchers leading WISERD’s foundational economy work has contributed to a COVID-19 report, which makes a case for renewal of the foundational economy, after the immediate public health crisis is over. The crisis demonstrates the importance of the foundational economy, that part of the economy which produces essential goods and services consumed by…

Civil Society, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Localities, Work and Labour Markets | WISERD Foundational Economy Research Network

Conference

Foundational Alliance Wales – Housing Action Conference

13th July 2023 | Cardiff

Our summer conference 2023 will showcase the good practice of the Welsh housing and open a discussion on how we can do more inside and outside the housing sector. The event is open not just to those working in housing but also to anyone with an interest in putting foundational economics into practice. We will…

Conference

Fifth Foundational Economy Conference: Foundational Economy, Social Innovation and Public Action

13th September 2022 | Turin, Italy

After state retreat and financialization, in the middle of nature and climate emergency, the foundational agenda is about renewal of the reliance systems which deliver the goods and services that keep us safe and civilised. Under rubrics, like radical social innovation and democratic experimentalism, other researchers and practitioners are pursuing similar ends and means….

Conference

Foundational renewal – Transforming reliance systems in the wake of COVID-19

7th September 2021 | Online

COVID-19 has severely impacted economies around the globe and exposed the fragility of our foundational reliance systems. While the pandemic has demonstrated the limitations of healthcare systems, the lockdowns have placed a heavy strain on various other foundational sectors, including care, education and food provision. At the same time, the introduction of economic recovery plans…

Conference

2017 International Labour Processes Conference

4th May 2017

Helen Blakely presented the paper “Collective memory and the labour movement: 1984-1985 Miners’ Strike” The Political and Economic Influence of the Cambodian Garment Sector Employers: Old Controls, Old Battles, New Battlegrounds Jean Jenkins Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet? Unpacking Policy Across the UK to Reduce the Number of Young People who are NEET Sue…

Wales Labour Market Summit II: Comparing Policy Interventions to Challenge ‘Business as Usual’

14th September 2016 | Bangor

The Welsh Labour Market Summit II is a knowledge exchange event serving as a platform for comparing, debating, and informing policy interventions in response to large-scale job losses across traditional industries (deindustrialisation).

Seminar

WISERD Wales & Recession Seminar Series: A new economy?

11th December 2014 | Cardiff

This final session will explore the longer term implications of the recession for the Welsh Economy.

Conference

WISERD Annual Conference 2014

3rd July 2014 | Aberystwyth

The WISERD 2014 Annual Conference followed on from four successful conferences, held in the Universities of Cardiff, Swansea, Bangor and South Wales. It bought practitioners, policy makers and social scientists together, WISERD conferences have become established as one of the most important events in the social science calendar. This two day event took place on Thursday 3rd and Friday…

Seminar

FSB Wales Round Table Seminar Programme 2014

12th February 2014 | Cardiff

‘What small business can do?’: Professor Karel Williams, Professor of Accounting and Political Economy. Manchester Business School, argues as the Thatcher/Blair experiment comes apart on its own contradictions, it is time to question the assumption that small business is an economic dynamo which can solve our national problem by adding jobs or growing fast.

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