People from ethnic minority backgrounds in Scotland: I’m recruiting for focus groups exploring identity, belonging & constitutional change in Scotland. Optional focus group participation includes a £30 voucher. ✨ No political expertise needed to share your experiences & perspectives lnkd.in/e_s99zYW

Trans, non-binary & gender-diverse people in Scotland ✨: I’m recruiting for focus groups exploring identity, belonging & constitutional change in Scotland. Optional focus group participation includes a £30 voucher. Share your experiences & perspectives in a supportive discussion lnkd.in/e_s99zYW

*REPORT LAUNCH* ➡️ Announcing the launch of the Scottish Election Analysis 2026 report. Featuring 55 contributions on the #ScottishParliament election from leading scholars in #Scottish #politics, #elections, media & #policy. @psampg.bsky.social

We welcomed @johannarickne.bsky.social alongside @sotonecon.bsky.social last week to discuss how people differentiate and understand stories of sexual harassment. In a large scale study in Norway, Rickne and coauthors find that the story matters in how people “accept” and “reject” information.

People from ethnic minority backgrounds in Scotland: I’m recruiting for focus groups exploring identity, belonging & constitutional change in Scotland. Optional focus group participation includes a £30 voucher. ✨ No political expertise needed to share your experiences & perspectives lnkd.in/e_s99zYW

Trans, non-binary & gender-diverse people in Scotland ✨: I’m recruiting for focus groups exploring identity, belonging & constitutional change in Scotland. Optional focus group participation includes a £30 voucher. Share your experiences & perspectives in a supportive discussion lnkd.in/e_s99zYW

5 hours left to vote in the Scottish Parliament election! Are you on your way back from work? Nip to the polling station before you get too comfy at home! Also, if you have a postal vote and you haven't returned it, never fear: you can hand it in at your local polling place!

📢 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

Lastly, we had @emiliabelknap.bsky.social present on how to conduct feminist focus groups with a particular focus on how to encourage collective meaning making. She outlined how to use an intersectional lens to consider consider power hierarchies in focus groups. Then, a Q&A session with our panel!

Updated Scotland poll tracker. SNP 5 short of a majority. Pro-independence majority of 15. Seats (+/- 2021) SNP: 60 (-4) Ref: 21 (+21) Lab: 18 (-4) Grn: 12 (+4) Con: 10 (-21) LD: 8 (+4) Alba: 0 (-) 1/2

Join us for our Spring Into Methods event! How does intersectionality frame methods in Gender Research? PGRs and PhDs are encouraged to attend. Thursday, March 5, 2026 from 14:30-16:00 (building details below!) Speakers include @emiliabelknap.bsky.social @silkeroth.bsky.social and Dr Matthew Hunt

Delighted to share my first single-authored article, now published in Parliamentary Affairs: “Targeting the cereal woman: Campaigns, gender & Scottish independence” 🆓 Open access: tinyurl.com/85cxsefm @hansardsociety.bsky.social @academic.oup.com #GenderPolitics #BritishPolitics (🧵👇)

📢 CFP for: GAIN Gender and Inequalities Workshop — Tue 9 Dec, 10–12, Bldg 100/7013. A supportive space for PhD & Postdoc in the School of Economic, Social and Political Science to share work-in-progress & get feedback. Submit title + 250-word abstract to [email protected] by 14 Nov 2025.

"The most common response among men aged 18-25, as with their female peers, is to state that they would never consider voting for Reform." Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Emilia Belknap argue that most British young men reject the right https://ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british-young-men-reject-the-far-right/

"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them." ✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

Today is the day! Join us at 10:00 a.m. to discuss applying for funding in Gender and Inequalities at the University of Southampton. Building 100 in Room 8013 on Highfield Campus. We have ☕ coffee, tea 🍵, and pastries 🥐🍩! www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...

An inconvenient truth. @turnbulldugarte.com and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social puncture a pervasive myth. ‬ "Among young respondents aged 18-25, a very comfortable majority of women reject Reform UK (75%), and a similarly large majority of men in the same age group share the same view (71%)."

"The most common response among men aged 18-25, as with their female peers, is to state that they would never consider voting for Reform." Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte & Emilia Belknap argue that most British young men reject the right https://ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british-young-men-reject-the-far-right/

🚨 🆕 analysis w/ @turnbulldugarte.com: most British young men reject the far right @ukandeu.bsky.social Despite media claims, 71% of young men & 75% of young women say they’d never vote Reform UK. The gender gap exists, but it’s steady across ages—not youth-driven. 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british...

"The data shows no evidence to suggest that younger men are more inclined than other demographic groups to support the British far right" ✍️ @turnbulldugarte.com & @emiliabelknap.bsky.social analyse the demographics of Reform voters and argue the gender gap is marginal ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british...

Happy, alongside @emiliabelknap.bsky.social, to make my debut contribution with the fantastic folks at @ukandeu.bsky.social Emilia & I use data from @britishelectionstudy.com to correct the atomistic fallacy in people's understanding the Reform UK gender gap ukandeu.ac.uk/most-british...

Join us in one ☝️ week for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collab event! 🏫 We are looking at fostering collaboration across the university for those interested in researching gender and inequalities! 📚 ✏️ www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...

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’m presenting today at #ECPRGC25 on the Territorial Politics, National Identity, and Electoral Dynamics: Shaping Party Systems and Political Behaviour panel! Law School, Floor 3, Room 5 ✍️ I’m presenting a paper on how campaigns target 🎯 gender gaps in the event of a constitutional referendum!

Day 1 of #ECPRGC25 was a huge success! Chaired a lovely panel and got to see some new and familiar faces; especially all of my European colleagues whom I’ve missed! Enjoyed a 🥭 smoothie on a tiki boat at the end of the day. Onwards to Day 2

Do you research elections, public opinion, voting behaviour, and political behaviour broadly? Come join us for our business meeting this Thursday! Add it to your itineraries in your app 📆 so you don’t forget! 🐘 28 August, from 17:45 to 18:45 in room 212, Law Building, Aristotle Uni. #ecprgc25

Have made it to #ECPRGC25 in Thessaloniki! So excited to be here presenting, chairing and as a standing group committee member for @ecprpovb.bsky.social 🇬🇷🏛️🏺🌀 on my way to the conference this morning I passed ruins from a Byzantine Market - as one does! If you see me pls say hi! 💕

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

📝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...

Thanks to @psawomenpol.bsky.social & @gain-centre.bsky.social for hosting a fab conference this week in @unisouthampton.bsky.social with excellent research, examining women, gender & politics. @jess-smith.bsky.social @elizabethjevans.bsky.social @emiliabelknap.bsky.social #LeahMcCabe #Southampton

I was up early this morning to talk to BBC 5 Live about the assisted dying bill, while I decide whether to go back to sleep in this heat here's what to expect from today's session The bill will have its third reading today, after MPs vote on some outstanding amendments from last Friday (1/10)

I was accepted to attend the Intro to Multilevel Modelling for Intersectionality Research: The MAIDHA Approach course today at @bristoluni.bsky.social hosted by @sheffielduni.bsky.social Sheffield Methods Institute. So excited to expand my mixed-method toolbelt and happy to be here.

Thank you so much @jess-smith.bsky.social @emiliabelknap.bsky.social @elizabethjevans.bsky.social and Leah McCabe for organising this wonderful event. Lovely to meet a lot of great people working on Gender Politics. @gain-centre.bsky.social @psawomenpol.bsky.social

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...

Tomorrow, we host PSA's Annual Women & Politics Conference with @psawomenpol.bsky.social! We are thrilled to welcome you to campus, and we have 1.5 days of presentations from scholars on gender, inequalities, and the challenges faced by gender and politics in the 21st century. Get in touch with Qs!

🚨Today is the LAST day to register for our conference 📝with @psawomenpol.bsky.social next week! 📅It's £20 to attend the 2-day conference, which includes a lunch🥪, coffee, and an evening reception 🎤celebrating Professors Fiona Mackay and Yvonne Galligan! Registration link here: tinyurl.com/3xnjn5at

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698

NEW - Gender Vote Gaps Among Ethnic Minority Voters in Britain - cup.org/435HpIg "results suggest that further work is needed to explain gender gaps in vote choice among ethnic minority voters in Britain" - Nicole S. Martin & Rosalind Shorrocks #OpenAccess

Research by @ailsahenderson.bsky.social & @richardwynjones.bsky.social published today. The Future of England Study 2024-25 is published with colleagues from @walesgovernance.bsky.social and @ccc-research.bsky.social. Report & data on our website: www.theunionsurvey.com

Just a few days left to apply for this postdoc position and come and join me at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social & @cdfuos.bsky.social. *The deadline is the 28th* (not the 30th as I wrongly stated in the original post).

❗ 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/...

There are two more days to submit your abstracts! (We have previously extended the due date to 25 April 2025!) The conference will take place at @unisouthampton.bsky.social, and we are so looking forward to hosting everyone alongside the award-winning @psawomenpol.bsky.social group!

🎓 Are you a PhD student researching gender & inequalities at @unisouthampton.bsky.social ? 💡 Apply for up to £150 to fund fieldwork or conferences! ✍️ Deadline: 2 May On how to apply, please see: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/researc... Email us 📩 [email protected]

🔟 👐 Ten days left to submit an abstract to our conference here in Southampton! More details below. We are especially keen to receive abstracts PhDs and ECRs! 📚 👇 @psawomenpol.bsky.social @gain-centre.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

I don't see enough people or reporters talking about the mass terminations of nih lgbtq+ grants that happened yesterday. How can we get the word out so communities understand the huge loss to science, safety, and economy this is?? #academicsky

As hundreds of my university colleagues across Wales lose their jobs, I wrote this for @nation.cymru - do please share nation.cymru/opinion/yes-...

Remember - you still have time to apply for the GENDER.ED Communications and Events Undergraduate Summer Internship! You have until 11.59pm (GMT) TODAY to apply. Find the job description and information about how to apply here: edin.ac/4hQcTsi