@uclssees.bsky.social Congrats to my amazing colleagues Serena Merrino and Idil Uz Akdogan for completing their mandate as Deputy Heads of Programme with such brilliance! 🥳 To mark the end of this chapter, we stitched on the UCL200 cloth together — a lasting memory of our teamwork🧵✨ #Gratitude

I attended the Education Awards ceremony at UCL yesterday - such an inspiring event. The room was full of positive energy, celebrating the incredible work colleagues do every day to inspire and support students. @uclssees.bsky.social

For all those we research place and space in CEE

@uclssees.bsky.social Had an amazing few days in Krakow for the 3rd Annual Conference of the Taube Centre. Huge thanks to the organisers esp. Paulina Lenik who masterminded our panel. Excellent academic and social programme.

@uclssees.bsky.social Our Special symposium with @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social is out in the Journal of Institutional Economics It includes 4 papers exploring: ‘Crisis and persistence: dynamics of institutional changes at the interface between formal and informal institutions’ [A thread]

What do hurricane Katrina, a sovereign debt crisis in Greece & military coups have in common? Find out in our post on the UCL SSEES blog about a new special symposium of the Journal of Institutional Economics that I co-edited with @elodiedouarin.bsky.social blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/2025/0...

Collaborators are looking for participants for a new multi-analyst study using SOEP data. For more information on registration, eligibility criteria, requirements, procedure, and timeline, please visit www.manydaughters.com. Deadline for registration is April 27

A great joy after winning the Scientific Economics Book of the Year award by the Polish daily Puls Biznesu Big thanks to my dear co-authors Jakub Sawulski and Michał Brzeziński @uclssees.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social

🔊 Job vacancy: Alexander Nash Fellowship in Albanian Studies The Alexander Nash Fellow will be appointed for two years to undertake an independent programme of research in Albanian Studies. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 March 2025 ➡️ Apply here: buff.ly/4h1M2s7

🌍💶 How did the eurozone survive turbulent times? Join us for Professor Yuemei Ji’s Inaugural Lecture 'Trust and Central Banking in Europe' to find out more. 🗓️06 March 2025 at 6pm 📍 UCL ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

www.conflictandchange.org/news1111/202... Really enjoyed attending the Conflict and Change PhD workshop today, and discussing some of the work presented. Amazing to see how ambitious, intriguing and varied the research presented was. 🎊 Congratulations to the organisers and all the presenters.

Please submit your best papers to this workshop on 25 – 26 June 2025 (part of @cesifo.org Venice 🇮🇹 Summer Institute). Keynotes: Paola Giuliano and @albertobisin.bsky.social My co-organizers: Uwe Sunde & @jvoth.bsky.social Deadline 9 Feb 2025 (midnight CET) www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

CFP: Economics, Nationalism and Politics in Central, East and South-East Europe https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152177 Ljubljana, 19.06.2025-20.06.2025, Nataša Henig Miščič, Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana Stefan Nikolić, Loughborough University and WEast, Bewerbungsschluss: …

Published online (not yet OA) New work with Luca Andriani and Gaygysyz Ashyrov We show that people who jointly value personal achievements and are not strongly embedded in narrow social group express more support for public good provision onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🏆 Cedric Smith Prize 2025: Submit your best peace & conflict research (max 14k words) for a chance to win the Conflict Research Society's prestigious award. Open to PhD students/early grads (after 1 Sep 2024). Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. conflictresearchsociety.org/cedric-smith... Conflictsky

As a first post (months after joining - sorry), I thought I could share my OA paper on the long term legacies of war on political participation. We show that war violence increases PP in Kosovo, but very differently for men compared to women. This was a first step, more related work coming soon.

📣Announcement📣 Politics & Gender Conference 2025 A conference celebrating 20 years of P&G for scholars working on all aspects of women, gender, & politics. 📅 May 28-29, 2025 📍 Rutgers University CFP: mlkrook.org/PAGC_CFP_202... Website: www.pagconference.org Submit: forms.gle/nc6ZpaEX7qnz...

Reminder that we’re hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology at UCL Social Research. Position is open to any applied field, deadline 20 December. (Reposting as the link was broken) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We're new here. In case you don't know who we are, here's an intro: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD0G...