Submit your abstracts to our ECPG Section for Newcastle 2026 👇

A must read right now by some brilliant colleagues 👇👇

Super excited (and relieved!) to see this paper finally published. Both men and women politicians experience incivility and, overall, the more famous they are, the more abuse they receive. BUT women in Europe receive uncivil tweets even when they're not well known www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Why are working class people under-represented in legislatures? We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against. We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:

🔍 Are you an early career behavioural researcher? Our Accelerator proposals offer up to £50,000 for innovative projects! 💡 Perfect for kickstarting your research journey. Applications open July 1st—closing August 12th, 2025. Get ready to apply! #ECR #Innovation #BRUKFunding

Early start 🌅 for Day 2 of our conference with @psawomenpol.bsky.social with @sotonpolitics.bsky.social Alum 🎓 @carolineleicht.bsky.social at Uni of Glasgow on her research on the glass ceiling and glass cliff of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris in US election coverage.

Khatera Yekta of @sotonpolitics.bsky.social presents insights on her research on women’s participation in political negotiations in Afghanistan from 2001-2021.

Excited to see our conference getting under way! Even if we are in a basement when it is 25 degrees outside... ☀️

Are you interested in social class? I've two working papers which show: 1️⃣ Using actor recordings of different accents, that people derive class from accent and this causally influences trait evaluations 2️⃣ That class-based descriptive representation improves support for the political system. 🧵

🚨New working paper🚨 "Take a Load Off? Not for Mothers" Time & money help mothers offload physical household labor —but not the mental load. Cognitive labor is an “unbargainable burden.” w/ @helenkowalewska.bsky.social @leahruppanner.bsky.social 📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Feedback welcome!

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

Our final panel of the conference kicking off now with @carolineleicht.bsky.social on feminist humour in political comedy

Kicking off our panel on Gender and the Elections of 2024 sponsored by @politicsjournal.bsky.social with @jennpiscopo.bsky.social on gendered ambition penalties

❗ FREE Summer School on 'Declining democratic health: Methods for diagnosis, treatment, and recovery' with us! 🗓️ June 23-24 📍 Southampton More details: www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/news/...

A reminder if you are enjoying the Women and Politics panels at #PSA25 we have our own conference in June in partnership with Southampton Uni's @gain-centre.bsky.social ⭐ Now with EXTENDED DEADLINE for abstracts of Fri 25th April ⭐ Get your papers in now!

Whoop whoop all around for @edinburghpir.bsky.social & pals at #PSA25 - starting with @psawomenpol.bsky.social co-winning specialist group of the year (co-convened by Leah McCabe & @jess-smith.bsky.social)

Pints and prizes last night 🍻 ⭐ Honoured to receive the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement as an early career scholar at the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social AGM last night AND thrilled that @psawomenpol.bsky.social won Specialist Group of the Year! 💥 💫

Kicking off the last panel of the day is Alyssa Martin on the Carers Parliament from the QualRep project (www.qualrep.org)

Reminder to our members at #PSA25 today. Our AGM will be at 12:45pm in Hall 8B (The International Convention Centre). Feel free to bring your lunch with you 👍

FAO: ECRs at #PSA25. Do you research democratic attitudes? Are you looking for a job? Then this might be of interest.

Happy to have co-authored the chapter in this book on ‘Women in the House of Commons’. Thanks to eds @ameakin.bsky.social @estrangeirada.bsky.social @louisevthompson.bsky.social and co-authors Rosie Campbell @jess-smith.bsky.social @profsarahchilds.bsky.social

🚨CFP🚨 Troubled Times: Gender & Politics in the 21st Century Join the GAIN Centre’s Women & Politics Annual Conf. exploring backlash, resistance & feminist futures. 📅 Abstracts due: 11 April 2025 💻 Submit: [email protected] Spread the word! www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...

*NEW BLOG* @jess-smith.bsky.social, co-convenor of @psawomenpol.bsky.social, reflects on their recent Mid-Career Workshop with @profsarahchilds.bsky.social and @profrosiecamp.bsky.social in this new blog. Read now: buff.ly/T7uU14J #womenshistorymonth

Join us! This one’s going to be good. Feminist scholars, activists, thinkers—come through! Abstracts due 11 April. 🌍💜 #genderpolitics A much-needed space to reckon with backlash, resist, and reimagine gender politics. Send us your work! 💥#polisky

In the continued causal sexism.. I have just been told by the plumber me not knowing what is causing a leak was what he calls 'a woman problem'...

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...

Why you decided to study gender? "it is really important that we think about the material realities of those who suffer inequalities around the world" addition to intellectual curiosity that drives our research! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social opens the roundtable discussions @gain-centre.bsky.social

So excited for our first event today! Already some brilliant discussions on why people chose to study gender and inequality from the personal 'to change the world' to the intersectional 'you cannot understand social class without gender'

🚨We are so excited to announce that we are hosting the PSA Women & Politics @psawomenpol.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference here in 📍Southampton! The conference, Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century, will be held from 📅 17 to 18 June! More details are in the CFP linked below.

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 Join us for our 2025 Annual Conference hosted by @gain-centre.bsky.social 📅 17-18 June 2025 📍 Southampton 💡 Theme: Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century Submit abstracts by Friday 11 April. Full details: tinyurl.com/ycyusm2v #polisky #gendersky

Myself, @jess-smith.bsky.social and Laura Richards-Gray won the prize for best article in British Politics comparing Thatcher and May as leaders. REJOICE. And download open access below link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very happy to have been awarded British Politics Journal's 'Best Article 2024' for this piece with some fantastic co-authors 🥰

Crowdfunder set up to support popular Southampton vegan cafe, Cafe Thrive, after break in tinyurl.com/yr9kxdhh

🚨 Exciting News! 🚨The Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre is live at Southampton! 🎉 Join our interdisciplinary community. 📢 Launch Event: 📅 Tues 18 March | ⏰ 3-5PM | 📍 100/7013 💬 Challenges of Studying Gender & Inequalities—a roundtable for all, esp. PhDs! Reception & refreshments from 4pm!

Practices such as remote voting and virtual participation of debate are important tools to enhance representation for women in legislatures by facilitating their work, as I have demonstrated in my recent publication doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

I’m so looking forward to all the articles on why young women are being ‘pushed into the arms of the far-left’ due to their ‘legitimate concerns’ about things like bodily autonomy, rape culture and the hollowing out of state welfare protections, right?

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! 👇

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Want to conduct experimental social science but not sure how. The Centre for Behavioural, Experimental and Action Research (C-BEAR) has a summer school to show you how, led by the friendly bear, @pspada.bsky.social. Find out more and register here: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course... #polisky

On Tuesday March 25th in Bath, I will be in conversation with the brilliant Aditya Chakrabortty to mark the launch of my new book, HOW TO THINK ABOUT POLITICS. Tickets are free, you can book and find more details here — tiny.cc/HTTAPlaunch

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

🚨🚨PhD opportunity!🚨🚨 At the Department for Political Economy at KCL we are advertising a funded PhD project on Understanding the Regulation of Parliamentary Expenditure, in collaboration with the UK’s Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA). Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p9me5ex

My new book HOW TO THINK ABOUT POLITICS: A GUIDE IN FIVE PARTS will be published by OUP next month in paperback and ebook. I argue that to understand politics, we must look past the daily fluctuations and instead focus on the fundamental constants of political life. Preview here — shorturl.at/mqLRt

Ever wondered why polls often missed the mark? Interested in spending three years figuring out the answer? How about a fully funded PhD working with me @lottehargrave.bsky.social and @martinboon.bsky.social ? All details in the attached link - apply by Feb 28th! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

My paper (w/ @turnbulldugarte.com) is now out on: ❓How do people derive social class of representatives and the public? The headline is that working-class parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as such (compared to otherwise identical lay public) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to be in a sunny Westminster for parliamentary launch of @centenaryaction #Mission2028 campaign for a #GenderEqualParliament by 2028.

Absolutely! It worked during the Covid parliament and could work again

Now a group presentation of their paper on gendered abuse in local elections with the dream team of @hannahrphill.bsky.social, Ziyu Deng and Roasrio Grima Algora on a project at @blavatnikschool.bsky.social

Kicking off our second day is @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social on whether women politicians are less supportive of conflictual political styles

In a festive Oxford to run @genelectnet.bsky.social Annual Workshop on Gender and Elections with @cerifowler.bsky.social and @rosieshorrocks.bsky.social