Beyond political acts, the Privilege & Participation Survey data also covers Organisational Involvement: privilegeandparticipation.org/2021/01/19/s... Specifically: donating, volunteering, membership and holding positions for parties, unions, campaigns and charities. #PrivilegeandParticipation

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And following a little break to potty train our daughter, here's today's Privilege & Participation Survey variable: Possible Political Acts. privilegeandparticipation.org/2021/01/14/s... These were asked to people who hadn't done each of the political acts in the past. #PrivilegeandParticipation

Why do people disengage from politics? I asked non-participants, as well as MPs and activists. Here's what I found: www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/researc... The first @johnsmithcentre.com blog based on my book, 'Capital, Privilege and Political Participation'. One on solutions to follow soon!

Thoroughly enjoyed using the @JohnSmithCentre #UKYouthPoll2025 data to look at whether happier young people and those who think politics is efficacious are more supportive of democracy: www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/researc... SPOILER: They're not! Need more research to figure out why though.

Chuffed to have an excellent panel for the @johnsmithcentre.com launch of my book: @stefaniereher.bsky.social, @tjscotto.bsky.social, Elli Loose, @cjcarman.bsky.social, chaired by Eddie Barnes! Join us on 8 October, 15:00, Bower Building room 248. Register: www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/capital...

🎙️Event announcement! Join us for Joe Greenwood-Hau's book launch: Captial, Privilege and Political Participation. 📅8 Oct 2025 📍UofG campus Register for free: www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/capital... @niceonecombo.bsky.social @stefaniereher.bsky.social @tjscotto.bsky.social @cjcarman.bsky.social

Following official positions, today, here's one of the most important variables in the Privilege & Participation Survey data: Political Acts. privilegeandparticipation.org/2020/11/03/s... Frequency of 11 acts asked about; they ended up being at the core of the book. #PrivilegeandParticipation

🎊On Tuesday, we celebrated all our supporters and alumni with our annual reception. If you were there (or couldn't make it!), do give our reflective blog post a read - and have a look at some impressions of the evening. 📸 🔗 www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/annual-... @ross-greer.bsky.social

Here's a powerful quote to illustrate how health conditions can restrict daily life in general and political participation specifically. This is from a qualitative interview with member of the public with low levels of political activity, who suffered from migraines:

Fittingly, now that hardback copies are available, today I move from demographics to the bread and butter of the Privilege & Participation Survey: political participation. Specifically, Official Positions: privilegeandparticipation.org/2020/10/16/s... #PrivilegeandParticipation

🎉🎉🎉As an additional bonus, the books were delivered to the @johnsmithcentre.com office yesterday, just in time for my birthday today. I think it's fair to say that celebration is in order! 🎉🎉🎉

🚨I hold in my hand...🚨 ...an actual, physical copy of my new @britishacademy.bsky.social and @livunipress.bsky.social book! Available to buy with a 35% discount using code Greenwood-Hau35 here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #PrivilegeandParticipation

The Privilege & Participation Survey data contains multiple variables on religious involvement, including relating to civic participation: privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/03/08/s... Coverage: religious identity, attendance, membership, civic skills, and volunteering. #PrivilegeandParticipation

📢 CIVICS FOR SCHOOLS: The case for better political education 📢 ❗️Political and civic education is vital in addressing the confusion felt by the UK's young people when it comes to politics. Read our Director @eddiebarnes.bsky.social 's article here: 🔗 www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/researc...

📊 Our new polling, released yesterday, has revealed a staggering gap in young people feeling like they know enough to participate effectively in political processes. Civic education is a must. 🔗 Find out more about our most recent polling here: www.johnsmithcentre.com/summer-polli...

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us last night at our Annual Reception 2025 in the Scottish Parliament! 🎉 An inspirational, energetic event - we couldn’t do what we do without our friends & supporters. 💙 @ross-greer.bsky.social @scotparl.bsky.social

After a year of a new govt people on low to middle incomes are still struggling to reach the Minimum Income Standard (MIS) 📢 @crsp-uk.bsky.social, supported by JRF, calculated the costs needed to achieve this standard of living in the UK in 2025 1/4

The Privilege & Participation Survey data distinguishes how many children are in a household from how many children people have; here's the latter: privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/25/s... Takeaway: two fifths have no kids; one sixth have one; a quarter have two. #PrivilegeandParticipation

🚨 NEW POLLING of 16- and 17-year-olds published today! 🚨 🗳️ Our latest poll reveals the UK's new cohort of voters feel unprepared to get the vote, and need more support and better education to encourage them to use it. 📊 Explore our findings: www.johnsmithcentre.com/summer-polli...

This @johnsmithcentre.com blog by @silviab.bsky.social does some really important things: www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/researc... - First, it distinguishes electoral from non-electoral participation. Both are important! - Second, it distinguishes political issues from social issues... 1/2

Similarly to disability, today's Privilege & Participation Survey variable, Health Conditions, can have profound implications for ability to participate in politics: privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/24/s... Key takeaway: almost 6/10 have none, almost 3/10 have one. #PrivilegeandParticipation

🎉 Huge congratulations to our colleague, Diane Bolet, on being awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant! 🌍 This is an incredible achievement and we can’t wait to see the impact of #GREENLOSS! #ERCStG #EssexGov #ResearchExcellence

Today's Privilege & Participation Survey variable is one with clear, practical implications for political activity: Disability Limitations. privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/18/s... Key takeaway: over a quarter of respondents report some limitation on daily life. #PrivilegeandParticipation

This variable took quite a lot of time to create. As with parental occupational class, the answers were written in open text boxes that I manually coded into categories. I also created a variable for whether people qualified their accents (e.g., 'sort of...', 'slightly...', mix). You're welcome!

Today's Privilege & Participation Survey variable is a gem! Self-Perceived Accent: privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/17/s... Respondents who said they have a regional accent then wrote in what it is. Most said they have an accent; their descriptions are very varied. #PrivilegeandParticipation

@lenmetson.com, really pleased to see you're doing a PhD; congratulations and I hope it's going really well!

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Here's an example of what good social media citizenship looks like. Thanks so much @robjohns75.bsky.social! FYI @psaepop.bsky.social.

The Privilege & Participation Survey data contains a good number of variables about respondents childhoods as well as their current circumstances. Today, Region of Residence now and when growing up: privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/16/s... #PrivilegeandParticipation

The Privilege & Participation Survey measured a key element of privilege, private education, in multiple ways. privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/14/s... Variables cover: type of secondary school attended, private primary education, and how fees (if any) were paid. #PrivilegeandParticipation

🚨 New research blog alert 🚨 UofG's @silviab.bsky.social shares her research on the differences in how young women and men enagage in politics via both electoral and non-electoral activities - read her fascinating insights now! 👇 www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/researc... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

The Government is doing its best at the moment to imply it has no problem with the ethnonationalism now rearing its ugly head. And I don't understand why. 1/5

Any thoughts, @ailsahenderson.bsky.social, @patricksturg.bsky.social, @stefaniereher.bsky.social, @anthonyjwells.bsky.social, @robjohns75.bsky.social, @anjaneundorf.bsky.social, @tjscotto.bsky.social, @cjcarman.bsky.social, @profsob.bsky.social, @robfordmancs.bsky.social...

🚨Looking for recommendations!🚨 Putting together a reading list for a new course and need good recent articles on: - Survey question design - Sampling - Surveys and polling more generally Got plenty, but don't want to miss things! Can anyone in @psaepop.bsky.social help?

To start the week, I move from parents' to respondents' education. Today's Privilege & Participation Survey variable is Age Left Education: privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/11/s... Takeaway: plurality left education after 20 (i.e., probably went to university). #PrivilegeandParticipation

This might be useful to @psaecn.bsky.social members; there are lots of super-supportive (senior) colleagues out there who can offer advice and support. Often it's just a matter of finding them; conferences (from small research student ones to big international ones) can be great for this.

Of course, since posting this, I've remembered some other people I wanted to say thanks to as well. During my PhD (and after), I was lucky to receive advice or, equally importantly, supportive words from some (senior) colleagues. I'm really grateful to the following people...

It's worth noting that this variable took much effort to create. Respondents were asked to think back to being 14 and recall the occupations of each of their parents. I manually coded their written answers to the NS-SEC (www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/...). It took quite a few hours.

Following Parental Occupational Class, the last Privilege & Participation Survey variable this week is Parental Education Level: privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/10/s... Key takeaway: big categories are O Levels (1/4 of the sample) and Other (1/5 of the sample). #PrivilegeandParticipation

🙌 Thank you all who joined us at GUU yesterday to discuss Henry McLeish and Prof James Mitchell's new book Unfinished Business! Thanks also to Annemarie Ward and Johann Lamont for joining the panel. A fascinating and provocative debate on the state of Scottish politics 💡 @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

As far as (unearned) privilege goes, Parental Occupational Class is pretty key. Today's Privilege & Participation Survey variable: privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/09/s... Takeaway: plurality for whom lower manag., admin. or prof. was highest parental occupation. #PrivilegeandParticipation

Really pleased, privileged and grateful that some lovely things have been written about 'Capital, Privilege and Political Participation' (liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....) by my excellent colleagues @tjscotto.bsky.social and @stefaniereher.bsky.social. Thanks so much!

Today's Privilege & Participation Survey variable shows people's willingness to share possibly sensitive personal information: Sexuality. privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/08/s... Key takeaway: the vast majority in the sample identify as heterosexual. #PrivilegeandParticipation

"Some newspapers, writers, influencers and those in the finance, luxury and property sectors may have good reason to perpetuate a sense of a wealth exodus."

The lack of representativeness means that I don't analyse the relationship between ethnicity and political participation in my book. This is a key problem with, or flaw in, the analysis, especially given my focus on how privilege relates to participation.

Today, I look at the Ethnicity variable in the Privilege & Participation Survey data: privilegeandparticipation.org/2022/02/07/s... Key takeaway: the survey is not representative of ethnicity; half as many non-White British people as in the population at the time. #PrivilegeandParticipation

📢 There's still time for @uofgsocsci.bsky.social students to sign up for our UK Youth Poll honours course! 🖥️ Course code SPS4013 More information here: 🔗 www.johnsmithcentre.com/youth-poll/u... @uofgsps.bsky.social @niceonecombo.bsky.social

The lengths I'd go to make you focus on the front page of the Sunday papers so you didn't notice the football pages.... (now with the link done right. Cos I'm a tech bro) observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

🚨Book publication week🚨 Excited that my @britishacademy.bsky.social Monograph, 'Capital, Privilege and Political Participation', is out in hardback, via @livunipress.bsky.social, this week: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... Interested in political participation? This is one for you!