Our partnership with the AHRC culminates in a 2-day convention in 2026, featuring a confirmed keynote lecture by Thomas Piketty internationally renowned expert in public economics whose vision for redistributive policies underpins the economic part of our vision of the wellbeing state. It will be hosted in collaboration with CAPPE at University of Brighton, who will fund a further speaker, Professor Wendy Brown, Princeton University, an expert in neoliberalism, democratic theory. The convention will bring together all participants and publicize the project for a wider audience. It will follow an innovative format incorporating workshops, art exhibits, performances, showcasing the cross-disciplinary and cross-sector collaborative ethos of the network. Attendees can join online or apply for funding from their home institutions to attend in person.