📢 Join our next seminar at the University of Southampton with Professor Johanna Rickne (SOFI, Stockholm University), whose research explores gender inequality, labour economics, political representation, and diversity in politics & the workplace. 🗓 11 May 2026 ⏰ 1–2.15 pm 📍 Building 100, Room 8011

*PSA Book Prize Winner* 🎉Congratulations to Prof. Elizabeth Evans & Prof. Stefanie Reher for their book 'Disability and Political Representation' (OUP) which is this year’s W.J.M. MacKenzie #BookPrize Winner ➡️ buff.ly/dvOF0Sa

Getting kittens is making it hard to concentrate on work #catsofbluesky

Lovely to win the Mackenzie prize when so many great books were nominated, but also really lovely to win it with my brilliant friend @stefaniereher.bsky.social

A hat trick of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social prizes last night! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for the Mackenzie Book Prize, @dbonansinga.bsky.social for Specialist Group of the Year @psa-italian.bsky.social & @williamlallen.bsky.social for the Joni Lovenduski early-career achievement award. #psa26

Two colleagues @elizabethjevans.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social are also shortlisted for the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Mackenzie Book Prize, with the announcement on Tuesday evening. Good luck to all the nominees! bsky.app/profile/soto...

Chuffed that @elsabmeuller.bsky.social and I have won The Ken Young Prize for best article in @policy-politics.bsky.social for our paper on policy responses to incels. @sotonpolitics.bsky.social policyandpoliticsblog.com/2026/03/11/p...

*PSA Mackenzie #BookPrize Shortlist 2025-26* Congratulations to Prof. Elizabeth Evans @elizabethjevans.bsky.social & Dr Stefanie Reher for ‘Disability and Political Representation', published by Oxford University Press @academic.oup.com ➡️ Find out more buff.ly/X13TKjK #Books #Politics #Disability

Two books by our colleagues are shortlisted for this year's @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Mackenzie Book Prize! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for 'Disability and Political Representation', and @drjennings.bsky.social for 'The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales'. www.psa.ac.uk/news/mackenz...

Great to speak about mine and @stefaniereher.bsky.social research at the @centenaryaction.bsky.social event on disabled women and politics at the House of Lords, hosted by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson 🤩 🤩 🤩

So happy that mine and @stefaniereher.bsky.social ESRC grant application for a 4 year comparative project on disability and political parties was successful!! @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

New article out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social in which I provide a comparative analysis of disability & political parties and develop a framework for assessing their accessibility.

So pleased to see this new steering group set up to support disabled people gain access to elected office - some excellent people on the steering group! www.gov.uk/government/n...

Had a great time in Ottawa presenting some of the findings from mine and @stefaniereher.bsky.social research on disability and politics at the Canadian Parliament. Now just soaking up the election fever 🤓🇨🇦🍁

Please do come along to this if you're in Brum for @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🚨My small book with @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social on timely #empathy #politics is online and I can't be happier! 🚨 shorturl.at/jZyPz *The manuscript can be accessed freely for the next 2 weeks!* The book builds on my PhD thesis, defended @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Happy to share this - although it is truly horrendous listening to yourself...

Our new Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social is officially up and running! 🎉 So excited to be running this with my brilliant colleagues @elizabethjevans.bsky.social and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social Keep an eye out for more to come! 👇

Disappointed to discover there is currently no All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Disability. There's the very important Special Educational Needs and Disabilities APPG but this group focuses on children and young people rather than disability per se.

In Memoriam Mala Htun (1969-2025) Mala Htun made a major impact on the study of women, gender, and politics as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and advocate. To honor her contributions, we have ungated access to her articles until the end of February 2025. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are a new interdisciplinary research centre @sotonpolitics.bsky.social focusing on gender and inequalities. Watch this space as we get up and running, as we have exciting news to share!

Toutes Les Femmes de La Terre vous soutiennent. Merci Gisèle.

Grateful to @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social for covering the costs of the production of a (free) easy read version of mine and @stefaniereher.bsky.social book Disability and Political Representation. @disrightsuk.bsky.social eprints.soton.ac.uk/494719/ #AccessibleAcademia

Great to see MPs raising the issue of electronic voting www.theguardian.com/politics/202... it's one of the topics that @stefaniereher.bsky.social and I proposed in our submission to the Modernisation Committee. Accessibility should not be sacrificed on the altar of tradition.

Our application to set up a School-wide Gender and Inequalities Centre at @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social has been approved! Watch this space for further updates as well as an inclusive programme of activities in the new year @jess-smith.bsky.social @emiliabelknap.bsky.social

Fantastic to have @mikebankole.bsky.social speak to our @sotonpolitics.bsky.social departmental seminar about his research on race, anti-racism protests and the Conservative party

Very handy @ejpgjournal.bsky.social Ed's collection on diversity and representation including me and @stefaniereher.bsky.social on disabled women's experiences of political recruitment bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...

The revolution starts in Balham! ✊

Other people are still using a Filofax aren't they? Easily one of the highlights of the year when the new refills arrive 🤓

In preparing for the job market I recently wrote a draft syllabus for a proposed course on the Politics of Disability. Sharing it here in case its of interest to others - would love to hear any feedback/suggestions and hope it helps! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/srq5e...

No Level Playing Field: Barriers to Disability Representation in Politics. @stefaniereher.bsky.social @elizabethjevans.bsky.social outline obstacles disabled people experience in pursuing elected office—and offer recommendations on how to mitigate them onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Hmm, what's that you say? Groundbreaking book? www.psa.ac.uk/psa/news/eng... @stefaniereher.bsky.social

Here's me and @stefaniereher.bsky.social in Political Insight on disability & representation in British politics journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We worked with the good folk at Go Easy Read to produce a freely available PDF version of our book Disability & Political Representation. Message me or @stefaniereher.bsky.social for a copy! #accessibleacademia

@elizabethjevans.bsky.social and I have a new article out: "Someone Like Me? Disability Identity and Representation Perceptions". doi.org/10.1007/s111... Through survey experiments in UK+US we found: 🦾Disabled citizens feel better represented by disabled than non-disabled candidates. (1/3)

Sphen 😢 not ashamed to admit I welled up reading this 🐧🌈https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/22/magic-moment-sydney-aquarium-filled-with-song-after-sea-birds-mourn-death-of-gay-penguin-sphen

Very pleased that the audiobook for Disability and Political Representation by me and @stefaniereher.bsky.social is out now (no they did not ask me to narrate it...) play.google.com/store/books/... a freely available easy read report version we've created with Go Easy Read will be out soon!

The @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social call for new editors for @journalpolitics.bsky.social is out - happy to answer any questions. We've had a great 3 years editing the journal!

Deadline for special issue proposals for @journalpolitics.bsky.social is 1st February. Drop me an email if you'd like to discuss or see our website for further details: politicsblog.ac.uk/2022/11/30/p...

Just taught my last class at Goldsmiths - lots of very happy memories of wonderful colleagues and students. Now looking forward to the bright lights of Southampton 🤩

Southampton is offering ~20 PhD scholarships to Black students as part of our strategy to try and make the university better reflect the diversity of the UK. polisky www.southampton.ac.uk/doctoral-col...

Indeed, a fascinating and important lecture. Looking fwd very much to the book by @elizabethjevans.bsky.social and @stefaniereher.bsky.social

Hello @profmusgrave.bsky.social please can I be added to the polisky list? Thanks!

This year’s @SPAISBristol annual lecture by on disability and political representation by @elizabethjevans.bsky.social drawing attention to the exclusion of disable people in politics. Absolutely fantastic and much needed research

Great to see the evidence that @stefaniereher.bsky.social and I submitted on disability and politics cited in this Welsh Parliament report into Diversity in Local Government. senedd.wales/media/xhqlgx...

Attn Bristol-based folk: I'm give a talk on Disability and Political Representation next Wednesday do come along if you can! Preparing myself for the hills and inevitable rain www.bristol.ac.uk/spais/events...

Much prefer the stories in my son's newspaper (plus the natterjack toad is animal of the week 🤩)

Doing empirical research on disability + politics? Moritz Raykowski and I are putting together a panel for APSA Virtual on 8-9 Feb 24 connect.apsanet.org/virtual-rese.... If you'd like to be part of it send your title + abstract to [email protected] by Oct 12th. polisky behavioursky