🚨 Launching: A Roadmap to Votes at 16 🚨 Kaat Smets and @jamessloam.bsky.social contributed to A Roadmap to Votes at 16 🗳️ - a report co-created with organisations, teachers, youth workers and young people to make Votes at 16 a success. 👉 Read the full report: docsend.com/view/9nnhamt...

How we're making an impact in political voting 💥 Discover a project, funded by the SSIA and led by Royal Holloway researchers, raising awareness of why young Londoners are not as politically engaged and influencing change. Read more: ow.ly/g05q50WXC5h @jamessloam.bsky.social

New book by @jamessloam.bsky.social: young people and politics ‘involves a move from citizens as simply voters, volunteers and consumers, to citizens as problem-solvers and cocreators of public goods’ (Boyte 2005: 536). Read intro for free: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/turning-yout...

Lowering the voting age to 16in the UK is a welcome policy intervention to the declining participation of young people in elections. But that alone isn't enough, argues @jamessloam.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Five of our 2nd-year undergraduates have recently completed a week's work experience in the House of Commons🧑‍⚖️ Each worked with a different select committee, they met MPs and the speaker of the house, and attended PMQs and OPQs Well done all!