We are excited to be hosting the CGSC 2026 conference today and tomorrow on campus! We have a plethora of fascinating talks underway and still to look forward to 🤓 See below for a link to the programme: drive.google.com/file/d/19OuN...

Check out this online article that discusses Dr Jeremiah Arowosegbe's article, 'African universities and the challenge of postcolonial development' ⬇️ africanarguments.org/2026/05/the-... Read Dr Arowosegbe's original article here ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🌍 Putting young people at the heart of global development In our latest Researcher Spotlight, Dr Katie Hodgkinson shares how her work is helping to reshape how organisations are accountable to children and young people. 👉 You can read the full interview here: essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/new...

Professor Jan Selby took part in a panel discussion following a screening of 'The People's Emergency Briefing' held in York. The film explores how the climate crisis is affecting everyday life in Britain—and how we can respond. Read more and see Prof. Selby’s comments ⬇️ tinyurl.com/2xbt34p6

The Global Research Network on Economic Crime in Africa (GRNECA) is hosting a webinar: Reparative Justice and Penal Abolitionism: From Economic Crimes to Crimes in General by Prof. Onwubiko Agozino (Virginia Tech) 📅 18 May 2026 🕒 3-4pm (BST) 📍 Microsoft Teams Register here: shorturl.at/wLVRw

New research alert 🚨📚❗️ check out the latest co-authored paper by our department’s British Politics 🇬🇧experts @andrewcrines.bsky.social and @drdavidjeffery.bsky.social , alongside Dr Timothy Heppell (@polisatleeds.bsky.social )!

📣 Beyond Belém: Where next for global climate policy after COP30 and the Santa Marta summit? School of Politics & International Studies & @priestleycentre.bsky.social 📅 7 May 🕒 3-4:30pm 📍 Baines Wing Miall LT (2.34) or online Find out more➡️ shorturl.at/wDQ8o Sign up➡️ shorturl.at/kjMVg

The 'Cultures of Platformization in Africa' symposium took place on 13 March 2026 at the University of Leeds and online. Read more about the key topics and sessions from the event here ➡️ 4sonline.org/news_manager...

📝New article published! A new article by Dr Danielle Young (@notesnthemargin.bsky.social) has been published in @plosclimate.org The open access article is available to read here ⬇️ journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

📝New article published! A new article by Dr Madeleine Le Bourdon (@mlebourdon.bsky.social) and Dr Louise Pears (@louisepears.bsky.social) has been published in @epsjournal.bsky.social This was based on research funded by @mybisa.bsky.social Read the article here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/zz2tevc9

Inspiring participation in SHAPE and STEAM starts in the community. 🌍🖌️🤖 ✂️ By bringing arts and engineering into spaces like Brownies groups, Briony Thomas is sparking curiosity, building confidence and widening access for young people beyond the university. 👉 bit.ly/4vuVtsc #Community #Impact

🎓 Celebrating PhD Success! 🎓 Congratulations to Dr Jack Cook who successfully defended his thesis on 'A reassessment of interwar leadership, and what it tells us about the Greenstein model' 👏 Please join us in congratulating Jack and wishing him every success in the future! #PhDSuccess

🌟 Celebrating Alumni 🌟 Huge congratulations to Bikrama Keshari Mohaptra who is a 2026 NISAU India‑UK Achievers Honours finalist. Bikrama studied MA Disability and Global Development in 2012. Read more about his time at Leeds and his achievements here: essl.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Subjects within the faculties of Environment and Social Sciences at the University of Leeds have ranked highly in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026. Read more here: essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/new... #QSWorldRankings #UniversityofLeeds #Universities

📰 New piece in The Conversation UK - @uk.theconversation.com Dr Tom Vaughan discusses the flaws in non‑proliferation logic revealed by the Iran war. Read the full article here ⬇️ theconversation.com/the-iran-war...

We were delighted to welcome Frances O’Grady, former General Secretary of the TUC and Labour peer, to deliver the seventh Alice Bacon Lecture on Thursday 12th March. The lecture was hosted by @cdpleeds.bsky.social Read more about the event here ⬇️ essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/new...

*** 10 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY *** Reposting as local convenor of the 2026 ICA PolComm Summer School at @polisatleeds.bsky.social Opportunity for PhD students/ECRs working on any aspect of political communication to learn & get detailed feedback from an top international faculty DL: 30 Mar, 17:00 GMT

Delighted to have a new forthcoming journal article (co-authored with Tim Heppell, (@polisatleeds.bsky.social) & David Jeffery (@drdavidjeffery.bsky.social))! The article examines Parliamentary signalling & factionalism of #UKLabour, & appears in Parliamentary Affairs soon! @livunipol.bsky.social

📣 There is still time to submit your paper and panel proposals for the @cgscleeds.bsky.social Conference 2026: New Ordering? World Politics and the Future of Global Challenges 📅 21-22 May 2026 📍 University of Leeds Deadline for proposals: 31 March Find out more⬇️ essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/new...

👏 We're delighted to announce that Professor Cristina G. Stefan has been named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her outstanding contributions to social sciences. Read the full story ⬇️ essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/new...

The Northern Agenda (@thenorthernagenda.bsky.social) wrote a piece in their newsletter last week about Former TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady giving the Alice Bacon Lecture. Read the piece in their newsletter here ⬇️ newsletters.e.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/tUCfjZFaoXcP...

🌟Celebrating Alumni Huge congratulations to Adanna Enwezor who is a British Council Study UK Alumni Award Finalist in the Culture, Creativity and Sport category in Nigeria. Adanna studied MA Global Development and Africa in 2011. Read more about her achievements here ➡️ shorturl.at/I4Lzf

📢UK PhD opportunity: join a cutting-edge project on Global Methane Politics! The ERC-funded Global Methane Politics project at the University of Leeds is recruiting one home/UK PhD student, to begin in October 2026 📅Application deadline: 8 April 🔗Full details and how to apply: shorturl.at/lxz9i

Another brilliant Alice Bacon lecture organised by @cdpleeds.bsky.social! Super inspiring having the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer introduce a talk from the first female General Secretary of the TUC 🙌 and to have so many of my fab @polisatleeds.bsky.social students in the audience

📢 Symposium: Cultures of Platformisation in Africa Check out the programme for this event being held at the University of Leeds tomorrow ⬇️ sites.bu.edu/nehajami/202... This is being hosted by the @universityofleeds.bsky.social and the Centre for African Studies, @bostonu.bsky.social

🔍 Building Trust and Credibility in Counter‑Terrorism Associate Professor in Terrorism Dr Gordon Clubb, is leading research into reshaping how we understand transparency, trust, and credibility in counter‑terrorism. Find out more his research here⬇️ essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/new...

Professor Jason Ralph has written this piece in @theconversation.com discussing how Keir Starmer's approach to Iran aligns with his foreign policy philosophy of progressive realism ⬇️

📢 Check out Professor Jason Ralph's (@jasonralph.bsky.social) recent interview with Teach IR where he discusses his perspectives on teaching international relations ⬇️ www.teachir.org/professor-ja...

📣 Call for paper and panel proposals for the Centre for Global Security Challenges Conference 2026: New Ordering? World Politics and the Future of Global Challenges 📅 21st-22nd May 2026 📍 University of Leeds Deadline for proposals: 31st March 2026

🤝New partnership for the School! We’re pleased to share that the School of Politics and International Studies has joined West Yorkshire Citizens, the local chapter of @citizensuk.org Find out more about this new partnership here ⬇️ essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics-res...

📣 TOMORROW - Priestley Impact Seminar – UK Adaptation & Resilience 📅3 March ⏰3-4:30 📍School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability This seminar will explore the theme of UK Adaptation and Resilience through short talks, a panel discussion and audience Q&A. Register here: shorturl.at/1anpR

🎉 Congratulations to our alum, Dr Natthanan Kunnamas, who has been named the National Outstanding Researcher 2025 in Political Science and Public Administration by Thailand’s National Research Centre. Read more here: shorturl.at/Y8bGQ

We are delighted to announce that Frances O’Grady is to deliver the 2026 Alice Bacon Lecture! 📆12th March 2026 🕒18:30 - 19:30 📍Great Hall, University of Leeds This free public lecture is hosted by @cdpleeds.bsky.social Get your ticket here: shorturl.at/IV1Kl Find out more ⬇️ shorturl.at/aO97i

We are delighted to announce that Professor Stuart McAnulla will deliver the fifth lecture in the 2025/26 Faculty of Social Sciences Inaugural Lecture Series Culture Wars UK: Is it Time for Universities to 'Rearm'? Wed 25th Feb, 4-5pm More info & tickets ⬇️ www.tickettailor.com/events/fssev...

Dr Laura Considine (@lauracon.bsky.social) is quoted in this article published by @theipaper.com on the end of the New START nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia ⬇️ inews.co.uk/news/world/f...

An ESRC White Rose DTP Collaborative Studentship is available in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, with the project title: ‘Civil Resistance and the Onset of Peace Processes’. Please share widely phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/453-... @polisatleeds.bsky.social

🎉Congratulations to Dr Margherita Belgioioso for securing a fully funded ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership Collaborative Studentship Project title: Civil Resistance and the Onset of Peace Processes Collaborative partner: @berghoffnd.bsky.social Closing date: 11 March shorturl.at/oTTOx

📢 Symposium: Cultures of Platformisation in Africa 📅 Friday 13 March 🕛 12:00–18:00 📍 University of Leeds & Online There is still time to submit a presentation proposal - send a 300 word abstract to [email protected] before 6 February. Find out more here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/mrjwm9fd

Help shape the next phase of Leeds Institute for Societal Futures. Want to collaborate in our development sandpits & workshops? #EthicalAI #HealthInequalities #Migration #Polarisation #AIEthics & more – whether you're internal or external to University of Leeds, let us know! EOI form: bit.ly/4bj9iCB

Thinking about a Masters?🎓 Meet Leeds Institute for Societal Futures @ the University of Leeds’ Masters Discovery Fair on 11 March, 10.30–3.30. Discover how PG study can help shape your future. Learn about our new AI Ethics and Society MSc launching Autumn '26: bit.ly/4bj0i0p #Masters #Leeds

Dr Victoria Honeyman talks about the complications of Andrew Gwynne’s resignation and the Gorton and Denton by-election on @bbc5live.bsky.social with @mattchorley.bsky.social Clip starts 1:51:51 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

👏 Congratulations to our PhD student, Hengfeng Zhao (@ziyangjan.bsky.social) , on publishing their first peer‑reviewed article in Global Studies Quarterly! Check out the article here ⬇️ academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Check out our schedule of events this semester. We hope to see you there!

📢New Publication! Congratulations to Dr Geoff Goodwin (@gbgoodwin.bsky.social) who has a new article published in New Political Economy. This introduces a new theory of decommodification to better understand socioecological transformations Read the open access article here ⬇️ shorturl.at/1zf86

Professor Leston-Bandeira (@estrangeirada.bsky.social) and the IPEN have been cited in the UK Parliament's Modernisation Committee Report. Read more about it here ⬇️ essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/new...

'A revealing episode about authority, legitimacy and control inside the party – and how Keir Starmer understands both internal democracy and political risk' - read what Dr Tim Heppell of @polisatleeds.bsky.social has to say on Andy Burnham and the Labour byelection campaign for Gorton and Denton 👇

📰 Professor Olaf Corry contributes to this news reaction from @srm360.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 srm360.org/news-reactio...

🎓Celebrating More PhD Success!🎓 Many congratulations to Theo Horesh who successfully defended his PhD thesis – 'The Retreat from Globalism and the Reconstruction of the Global Imaginary' 👏 Please join us in celebrating this incredible achievement and wishing Dr Horesh every success in the future!

📢 Ep2, S4 of Politics and Pedagogy is out: 'Communities disrupting hierarchies: @globalhigheredj.bsky.social '. We speak to co-founding editors of this brilliant new journal actively disrupting traditional, hierarchical models of journal publication and management. rss.com/podcasts/pol...

📢New article published in Open Access Government! Head of School, Professor Richard Beardsworth, analyses climate leadership after Belém, focusing on managing the fossil fuel transition beyond COP30 ⬇️ 🔗 www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/two-...