Just got this in the mail today. Congratulations, Jane Sumner! Can’t wait to this with my students. It looks awesome! The discipline needed this book. 🥳📕

So, so proud of this book! It was an honour to be asked by @estrangeirada.bsky.social & @louisevthompson.bsky.social to join the editing team and work with 70+ incredible practitioners & academics who shared their expertise for the benefit of students of Parliament: global.oup.com/ukhe/product... 🧵

I'm advertising a fully funded PhD to work with me and Prof Kate Dommett on our PODTrust project. Interested in trust, politicians, and the opportunity to study within an international team spread across 4 countries? Check out the ad 👇 Happy to answer any qus www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU746/p...

Politics Live just referring to this poll claiming alarming decline in support for democracy among the young. Except there isn’t. This has now been debunked several times (Mark Pack’s linked post is the most thorough) but the only thing remembered and cited in debate is the original headline.

Our analysis of the geography of GE2024 is now out in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social. This offers an important update of The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales by @jwfurlong.bsky.social and me, published by OUP just ahead of the election. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This matters for many reasons, not least because there is a bunch of evidence that the social class (of which education is a proxy) of politicians and the cabinet matters for actual outcomes 🧵

Interested in political trust, politicians, digital politics and/or experiments? Come work with me, Kate Dommett and a great team of international collaborators on our three-year Trans-Atlantic Partnership grant 👇 Happy to chat with anyone who's interested. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT576/r...

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:

Hello BlueSky! If you'd like to know a bit more about what I do, then this talk in the Australian Parliament gives a good overview of some of my recent research on trust and political leadership (👇). www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia... Thanks for connecting!