David Hall PGCE, MA, MPhil, BA

Supervision of post-graduate students attached to PSIRU, supportive collaboration on PSIRU research projects, organising and chairing seminars and webinars around PSIRU research interests, helping maintain national and international networks of academic and social partners of PSIRU, maintaining media profile for wider dissemination of PSIRU work.

British Library award for original PSIRU website as being of national importance.

• Been a guest lecturer at the World Bank infrastructure division, and an international expert adviser to The Water Dialogues, a global multi-stakeholder initiative
• Been invited to address meetings of the United Nations department of economic and social affairs (UNDESA), the OECD, UNCTAD, ILO, the European Parliament, the EU Economic and Social Committee, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Belgian parliament, the constitutional court of Indonesia, the Walkerton enquiry (Canada), and a Moodys investors conference.
• Been an invited speaker at seminars and conferences at many universities and research institutes around the world, covering a range of disciplines - economics, law, politics, environmental studies, development studies, labour relations, sociology, public administration -  including: Aalborg, Athens, Bantung, Barcelona, Berkeley, Berlin, Bologna, Bonn, Bradford, Bremen, Brussels, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Cornell, Cranfield, Edinburgh, Erlangen, The Hague, Harvard, Istanbul, Lima, Loughborough, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Munich, Newcastle, Open University, Oxford, Paris, Sheffield, SOAS, St. Petersburg, Tampere, UCL, Uppsala, Vienna, Wellington and Wroclaw. He has participated in many international research networks, including CIRIEC, Low Carbon Energy for Development Network (LCEDN), WATERLAT.
• Worked with social movements and trade unions internationally and has contributed to meetings in over 50 countries, on all continents. These included international meetings of the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Asian-European People’s Forum, the world congress of Consumers International, national and international union conferences, including Public Services International (PSI), European Public Services Union (EPSU), South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU).

His recent research covers the finances of water and energy companies and public alternatives in the UK, narratives on public spending and services, the economics and history of public services, lessons from Covid, remunicipalisation trends, UK and global law on compensation and nationalisation, popular support for public ownership in the UK and elsewhere.

Key funded projects

• Co-leader of the global 'Shifting Narratives' conference in 2022, and the 2021 project on narratives re public spending, services and production (PSSP), funded by Open Society Foundation (OSF)
• Coordinator of the Watertime project, an EU-funded 2003-2006 research project on decision-making on water in 29 cities, leading a team of 5 universities and research institutes; and guest editor of a special issue of Utilities Policy in 2007
• Lead of a global research project on corruption in 2004-2006, for Wallace Global Foundation;
• Co-leader of a project on public-public partnerships funded by the European Commission, awarded  to PSIRU because it is “internationally recognised for its design and management of a unique research website and global database on water and energy providers which is widely visited and trusted by researchers, policy-makers and practitioners”.

Frequently cited in UK newspapers, including FT, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Independent; authored opeds and blogs for Daily Express, The Conversation, Guardian; contributions on BBC TV and radio, both local and national; also cited by international media including newspapers, TV and radio eg CNN in USA, France Inter, Nikkei.

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