Nearly time for #epss2026! Come and see what our friendly colleagues are up to over a drink 🍺, coffee ☕, pastry 🥐 ...or all three at once (who are we to judge?)

Check out what our @gain-centre.bsky.social has been up to in its first full year as it sets the agenda on understandings about gender and inequalities!

One week until @epssnet.bsky.social #epss2026! We have 12 colleagues attending and sharing new work in areas including democratic innovations, class, urban/rural divides, gender, political behaviour, redistribution and spending, and more. We're also a friendly and social bunch, so come and say hi!

Cities are central to how people experience politics. So what makes effective urban leaders? Teaching fellow Max Stafford explores this in his new @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social book Strong Mayors and Leadership Capital w/ fresh data & case studies www.bloomsbury.com/uk/strong-ma... #polisky #pasky

Hasta prontito! #lasa2026

We're at @lasabluesky.bsky.social #lasa2026 next week! Our colleagues are presenting new work on topics including clientelism (@marianaborges.bsky.social), irregular migration (@vchengm.bsky.social), regional governance @piariggirozzi.bsky.social) and participatory budgeting @pspada.bsky.social).

📢 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

We're excited to round out our termly seminar series with @bogatyrev.bsky.social from @lsegovernment.bsky.social who is presenting 'Shifting Ground: The Electoral Effects of the 2023 Earthquake in Turkey'!

📣 Do you work on migration and how it relates to security including economic, policy, political, and psychological aspects? We're hosting a 1-day workshop at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social on 23 June. Limited funding available. Abstracts due 11 May: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/VywDnKXg3c #polisky #migcitsky

Check out a new audit study among UK MPs in @bjpols.bsky.social co-authored by our brilliant colleague @vchengm.bsky.social! Thread below 👇

Are you interested in meta-ethnography? Professor John Boswell will discuss this approach using material from his upcoming book 'How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State'. Friday 5 June, online. Free registration: www.interpretivemethods.com/upcoming-eve... #polisky #pasky

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

A bumper day for colleagues at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social presenting on AI policy, political trust, populist communication, Brexit, reproductive rights policy, and emotions research. And, a report on the academic job market supported by @psaecn.bsky.social. Feel free to say hello anytime! #psa26

See you at #psa26 soon! We're also highlighting PAIR co-authors: @piariggirozzi.bsky.social w/@vchengm.bsky.social on Wed, @viktorv.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social w/@drjennings.bsky.social on Tue, @jydenham.bsky.social on 'The UK Accounting Officer system: time for change?' (15.30 on Mon)

The QS Subject rankings were released yesterday. Pleased to see @sotonpolitics.bsky.social continuing to rise - having been unlisted just a couple of years ago. We rank 12th globally for citations...

The #IranWar lacks strategy, goals, legitimacy and support, says our expert Prof Jason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social. Writing for @uk.theconversation.com, he asks under what conditions do people support military action. Read more👉 theconversation.com/iran-war-lac... @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

Excited for the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in one week! Colleagues are presenting work on topics including populist visuals, Labour and AI, irregular migration, and party politics. They're also on roundtables about Brexit, the UK academic job market, and a book launch. Say hi! #psa26

We're excited to welcome Vincent Jacquet from the University of Namur who is presenting on "Catching the Influence of the Citizens' Assemblies" in today's seminar: researchportal.unamur.be/en/persons/v...

Today we're excited to welcome @simonchauchard.bsky.social who is Associate Professor of Political Science at University Carlos III (Madrid), and presenting on 'How Do Anti-misinformation Laws Affect Campaigns? Evidence From Brazil' www.simonchauchard.com

Today the @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar welcomes Petra Schleiter who is Professor of Comparative Politics @politicsoxford.bsky.social and will present 'How to break populist parties’ appeal? An experimental evaluation of communication counter-strategies'! www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/petra...

Today we're excited to welcome @gizemarikan.bsky.social from @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social who is sharing work on 'Memorialization in civil conflicts and minority reactions'. gizemarikan.com

Do you work or teach on political trust, and need to get up to speed? Check out this new #openaccess collection edited by @danjdevine.bsky.social @mfair.bsky.social: 12 chapters covering causes and consequences of political trust www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o... #polisky #commsky #socsky #econsky

Our spring seminar series continues today with Dr Alex McLaughlin, a Lecturer in Global Political Theory at Exeter, who is presenting on the timely topic of 'Climate Change, State Capture, and Authoritarianism'. experts.exeter.ac.uk/42077-alex-m...

Our spring seminar series convened by @jasonreifler.bsky.social is live from today! Today we're excited to welcome @vickisquire.bsky.social who is Professor of International Politics at Warwick, and presenting on 'Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship'.

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...

If you work on any aspect of trust and politics, you'll definitely want to check out this agenda-setting collection co-edited by our brilliant colleague @danjdevine.bsky.social. Plus, it's open access and free for all! #polisky #commsky #socsky #econsky

Two new #polisky papers from our brilliant colleague @profannikawerner.bsky.social: first up in @bjpols.bsky.social, on how parties manage their core and peripherial policy areas to adapt while keeping on brand

Check out the new work on campaigns and gender by @emiliabelknap.bsky.social, one of our brilliant postdoctoral fellows! It's open access below.

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!