Today’s @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar will include these vegan birthday biscuit bars: dark chocolate, pecan, sea salt. #poliskybakes

Tariffs might be the word of 2025. Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe? @grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at [email protected] so that we can get an idea of numbers!

I am so excited that this excellent line-up of speakers are presenting in the LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour seminar series this term! 👇

Submit your abstracts to our ECPG Section for Newcastle 2026 👇

This article took a really long time to be published! We started the project in 2021, then life happened. Some reviewers also didn't like the application of OSP to demoinno lit with my wonderful co-authors Matt Ryan, Rafa Mestre, Masood Gheasi and George Bolton from @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

a new article, friends! on #democraticinnovations and #opensciencepractices! a thread will follow at some point! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Absolute delight to attend this last week 👇

Several of my great new colleagues at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social and their collaborators have to put together this blockbuster paper on what happened when the UK Labour Party adopted radical right rhetoric on immigration. A must read for centre left parties across Europe.

I spoke to @newstatesman.com on the results, where my main point from the paper was that there is *no* modelling strategy that shows a positive effect for Labour.

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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

I forgot about this in the chaos of summer, but a month or so ago I was on this @instituteforgovernment.org.uk podcast on government ministers alongside @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com @timdurrant.bsky.social and others: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/insi...

Great to see this timely work out by one of our @sotonpolitics.bsky.social PhD students (whom I’m proud to be co-supervising) #migcitsky

I'm looking forward to my first @ecpr.bsky.social conference! I'm going because there's a trust bonanza organized by the indefatigable Ben Seyd and @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Causes, consequences, trends, voting, policy, measurement and conceptualization; they've got it all 👇

Interested in working with us? Leverhulme early-career fellowships might be for you. Get in touch with us if you have an idea! www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

📝On our blog, we reflect on the @psawomenpol.bsky.social y.social annual conference we hosted here at @unisouthampton.bsky.social ! We were delighted to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who study gender and inequalities. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/2025/07...

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.

My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ‪✍️ ✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism ✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias 💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain @sotonpolitics.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Numerous inaccuracies here, but faith has shaped ideas of national identity in England. What role does faith play today? The Centre for English Identity and Politics is publishing blogs and articles from different faith perspectives www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...

🎉 What an incredible year for CPE! We hosted some of the best scholars in political ethnography, launched new series, and ended with our first-ever CPE workshop. Here’s a look back at 2024—and what’s coming next! 🧵

At @sotonpolitics.bsky.social we have two positions for Teaching Fellows: 1. EU politics, policy, human rights, gender: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX849/t... 2. (American) political theory: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX882/t... Not your specific area? Apply anyway!

📢 Check out the new Spring issue of QMMR! It features a Classroom Notes piece by our co-director @marianaborges.bsky.social, reflecting on how the digital world has become central to everyday life and how we can prepare researchers to engage with it as a vital window into the lives of those we study

BISA, with @sotonpolitics.bsky.social held their first Methods Summer School 🌟 Margaret Ifeoma Abazie-Humphrey from @bristoluni.bsky.social, a scholarship receiver, discusses her valuable takeaways and highlights from the course 🎉 Found out more about Margaret's takeways 👉

A new 'public opinion analytics lab' has been launched: publicopinionanalyticslab.github.io/people/ Led by @miriamsorace.bsky.social, @sarahobolt.bsky.social , @drjennings.bsky.social and a thematic leadership team, POAL advances research & teaching of public opinion measurement and analysis.

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:

BISA partnered with @sotonpolitics.bsky.social launched their first Methods Summer School 🌟 Michael Mo who was provided with BISA bursaries to attend told us his valuable takeaways and highlights from the course 🎉 read more here 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/met...

At #epsa2025? Come and meet us! bsky.app/profile/soto...

And yesterday we wrapped it up! A group photo (without @andreavik.bsky.social 😭). Thanks to all the attendees for a valuable and rewarding few days. Hopefully see you next year?

That's the back of my head! 🤩 Joking aside, a wonderful couple of days. Thanks for having us all!

The CPE is delighted to welcome prof Rosana @pinheiromachado.bsky.social to @unisouthampton.bsky.social for our workshop next week for a keynote lecture entitled: Rage, Dreams and Insubordination: How the Far Right and Social Media Mobilize the Working Class. If you are around, please pop by!

Hugely important subject matter, keen and knowledgeable students, and Southampton's regulation sunshine. A pleasure to participate.

Second (and final) day of our first PAIR methods summer school on democratic health and discontent. Pictured: @robjohns75.bsky.social on `Understanding the Threat to Democracy: Survey & Experimental Designs' (the quant stream!) and Rod Rhodes on `Fieldwork with elites' (the qual stream!).

It was fantastic to return to Southampton this week for the @psawomenpol.bsky.social @gain-centre.bsky.social conference. Always such a joy to be with this group of brilliant & supportive friends & colleagues ☀️ Thank you to the organizing team for a great conference & for bringing us all together!

Fixed term post available at Southampton based in the National Centre for Research Methods. I don't know the details, but can connect interested with people who do. Screen shot/alt text from ad. Application closing date Tuesday, June 24. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Great researcher-and-trainer-on-a-project position @uossocstatdemo.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social ‪for anyone who knows both their survey data and their big data. #surveys #southampton #synonymous jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

As early-career colleagues start thinking about autumn job applications, I wrote a piece describing my post-PhD path. Reflecting on "project," "person," and "place" with mentors helped me immensely, so I hope this note pays it forward somehow. www.wlallen.com/wp-content/u...

Looking forward to Madrid next week - if you're around, feel free to say hi! (Also, it's totally socially acceptable to me if you rock up with a photo of either your good doggo back home 🐶or whatever you last baked 🍰. I'm sure we'll hit it off.)

We're a friendly and diverse bunch so come say if you're around in Madrid next week

From @sotonpolitics.bsky.social we have PhD researcher 📚 Tom Guyton-Day presenting his work with @elizabethjevans.bsky.social on whether fewer tiers means fewer women? They explore this through the case of gender representation and local government reform in England.

#checkthisout #impressive My @sotonpolitics.bsky.social collegue and friend Liz Evans @elizabethjevans.bsky.social gave an evidence-based talk on disability and accessibility of the parliament at the Modernisation Committee of the UK Parliament yesterday! share.google/thvHTqgqpwvj...

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.

@sotonpolitics.bsky.social @ #EPSA2025 If anyone wants to meet in Madrid, preferably in extreme shade and/or a fridge, get in touch.

Several colleagues are going to be in Madrid next week for the European Political Science Association, presenting research on party decision-making, attitudes towards minorities, populism, gender, social media, acccents and class, urban-rural divides, the politics of dating, and more! #EPSA2025

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

Our annual conference co-hosted with @gain-centre.bsky.social at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social is well underway with a panel on Feminist Participation in State Building

We are delighted our Professor Gerry Stoker has been recognised for his research and impact with an OBE 👇

Tomorrow @gain-centre.bsky.social & @psawomenpol.bsky.social host the annual PSA Women &Politics conference! We are so excited to celebrate the careers of Profs Yvonne Galligan & Fiona Mackay. If you have any Qs for them or anecdotes of their careers, use this form: forms.gle/8H8MnSyDzz7F...

Congratulations to my friend, coauthor and colleague @profstoker.bsky.social‬ who has been awarded an OBE in the King's Birthday Honours for services to local governance and to the study of democracy!

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...