M.A. (Malcolm) Campbell-Verduyn, PhD

In 2024 I (co-)lead the following alphabetically-listed research projects being undertaken with colleagues based at the University of Groningen as well as at universities in both The Netherlands and abroad. I welcome graduate student supervision on any of these themes.

Bad Policy

What makes policy bad? What prospects  exist for developing better policies? Together with Heather McKeen-Edwards (Bishop’s University) and Ian Roberge (York University) I am co-leading a comparative analysis of bad policies across financial services, emerging technologies, and environmental activites.

Financial Infrastructures

With Barbara Brandl (Goethe-University Frankfurt) and Carola Westermeier (Justus Liebig University Giessen) I am co-editing the Cambridge Global Companion to Financial Infrastructures. This volume brings together several fields of social science and humanities. It builds on a 2022 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics mini-conference we organised on “Financial Infrastructures: From Colonial Trajectories to Global Digital Transformations”. I am also investigating with Falin Zhang (Nankai University) China's changing roles in international monetary infrastructures. A first peer reviewed ouput analyses the implications of renminbi digitization for dollar hegemony.

Growth Infrastructures

How has economic growth become so entangled in human activities? Bringing my research on financial infrastrutures together with that of Matthias Kranke (University of Freiburg) on post-growth, we are developing the concept of ‘growth infrastructures’ in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team to bring forward backgrounded socio-material relations that underpin the pursuit of (post-)growth.

RegTech in Finance

Marc Lenglet (NEOMA Business School) and I examine the implications for democracy and stability of growing application of ‘Regulatory Technologies’ (RegTechs). A first peer reviewed output focusing on finance identifies and scrutinises the technocratic, techno-solutionist imaginaries being mobilized in and across jurisdictions as well as in globally.

Sustainability Technologies

With Dr. Daivi Rodima-Taylor (Boston University) and Nick Bernards (Warwick University), I co-lead an interdisciplinary investigation of the growing 'turn' to novel digital technologies being increasingly harnessed in global attempts to address a number of interrelated sustainability challenges, from climate change finance to labour standards in global supply chains. A peer reviewed agenda-setting article setting out this collaborative research project is avaiable here. Also with Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Chris Clarke (Warwick University) I co-edit a special journal issue on "Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Decolonial Struggles in Global Finance". I initiated and coordinate the inter-faculty SusTech Research Group as part of the Development, Security, and Justice at the Rudolf Agricola Sustainable Development School.