Dr Tania Arrieta

I undertook a PhD in austerity and the political economy of the UK at the University of Leicester, from 2017 to 2021. I joined the Department of Work, Employment, Management and Organisations at the University of Leicester as a Lecturer in October 2022.  I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.

My PhD focused on the social and economic implications of the austerity programme implemented in the UK after 2010. Specifically, it centred on changes in public service provision, public-sector working practices, and the financial sustainability of service areas, including the NHS and the social care sector.

More recently, I have conducted research on institutional resilience and the different practices organisations use to address various challenges, including funding decline and increasing community needs. Here, I have been particularly interested in understanding who bears the costs and the benefits of these decisions – resilience of what and for whom? My latest research explores ‘resilience’ in the context of the food bank system in the City of Leicester.

My other research interests are in the areas of urban governance, policy & politics, and the precarity of the labour market.

I am the Research Lead of the Non-Profit Institutions Research Group at the School of Management, College of Business, University of Leicester.

Publications:

Davies, J. S and Arrieta, T (2025) 'Towards a crisis of resilience? Eight takes on a troubling concept', City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action. 

Davies, J. S and Arrieta, T (2024) 'The limits of "resilience": Relationalities, contradictions and re-appropriations, WIREs Climate Change, e911, 1-8, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.911

Arrieta, T. and Davies, J. S. (2024) 'Crisis Management in English Local Government: The Limits of Resilience', Policy & Politics, doi: https://doi.org/10/1332/03055736Y2024D000000029

Arrieta, T. (2022) 'An assessment of the resilience of local government in England: was it well-equipped to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic? The Political Quarterly, 93(3), 408-415. doi:101111/1467-923X.13171

Arrieta, T. (2022) 'Austerity in the UK and its legacy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 33(2), 238-255. doi: 10.1177/10353046221083051

Arrieta-Hernandez, T. (2021) 'The Consequences of the Austerity Policies for Public Services in the UK', Studies in Social Justice, 15(3): 518-537.  doi: 10.26522/ssj.v15i3.2568

Policy Briefs: 

Arrieta, T. and Davies, J. S. (2025) 'From food emergency to poverty prevention: the emerging changing function of food banks in Leicester', Independent Policy Brief. ISBN: 978-1-912989-35-5, https://doi.org/10.25392/leicester.data.24427261.v1, Published by the University of Leicester

Social Media: 

Arrieta, T. (2021) 'Challenges to solidaristic federalism in Mexico', Social Policy Association, Blog.  

I am interested in supervising undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in the following topics: 

 - The links between economic & social policy

 - The precarity of the labour market

 - Class & politics

 - Employment practices in public organisations

 - Policymaking & the public sector

I teach on a range of modules at the School of Business on topics related to employment relations, management and human resources. I am currently the module leader of MN3520 International Business (undergraduate) and MN7407 Management in Practice (postgraduate). 

Current leadership roles:

Pathways Director of the 'International Year One' and 'Foundation Year' programmes at the College of Business, UoL. 

Research Lead of the Non-Profit Institutions Research Group

Programme co-Lead of the PhD Training Programme in Management

Academic Year Tutor - BA Management Studies

Previous Leadership Roles:

Programme Lead - International Year 1 (Navitas)

ESRC IAA Festival of Social Sciences Public Engagement Grant (Project Co-Lead).

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)