Happy weekend! This Saturday brings you the rare joy of a 🙌job🙌 in: surveys! democratic attitudes! experiments! three years!! research only (if you want)!!!! with @rikkidean.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social !!!!!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTB393/r...

Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project at University of Southampton

Apply now for the Research Fellow - Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) project role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Annual Trans Pride celebration post and reminder that trans rights are human rights!

*Academics of Bluesky:* Do you know a great UG/PG student with excellent quants skills? @nspmartin.bsky.social and I are advertising a great fully-funded PhD on MRP and minority voting with our friends at Ipsos, so send them our way! ✌️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Beyond Forecasting: Using MRP (multi-level regression with post-stratification) to investigate minority political behaviour at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Beyond Forecasting: Using MRP (multi-level regression with post-stratification) to investigate minority political behaviour at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...

Come work with us! We are looking for a Research Assistant to support a number of projects in our Evidence Development and Incubation Team. Apply by 22 January ➡️ www.directtemping.com/jobs/...

New event at @policyatkings.bsky.social with the evaluation team researchers and @taso.org.uk - Parental Engagement and Reducing Inequalities in Higher Education - 11-12:30GMT online, sign up for free at: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/86247b...

📢 New @GSDRC Working Paper! How can donors maintain public support for aid in sensitive contexts? German survey shows support rises when aid is channelled via NGOs. 🔗 shorturl.at/qGUyz #ForeignAid #PublicOpinion #Afghanistan #DevelopmentPolicy

🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨 We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track. We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.

Published today: our new evaluation with @johnnyrunge.bsky.social ‪ and @domenicaavilaluna.bsky.social. We studied the UK Democracy Fund's efforts to register 750,000 voters in the UK between 2019 and 2024 which saw nearly £2m being awarded to 33 grantees. www.jrrt.org.uk/powering-par...

Powering Participation: What we learned from the UK Democracy Fund - Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust

Through the tireless efforts of our grantee community, the UK Democracy Fund estimates that together we helped register 750,000 voters ahead of the 2024 General Election. Grantees led campaigns in sch...

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Do you work on immigrant integration or well-being? At this @compasoxford.bsky.social hybrid seminar on 19 Sep, Adam Komisarof (Keio, Japan) and I will each share work on migration attitudes, with commentary from the brilliant @sbvanoosten.bsky.social! www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/promot... #migcitsky

A little bit of today’s incredibly well attended Trans Pride in London

I too want to jump on the London is *over* megatrain!!!

We're hiring a short-term postdoc (think "summer project"), or PhD-student RA, with advanced expertise in quantitative text analysis to support myself and Dr Marion Dumas (LSE) in a European Horizon-funded grant project. Details here adjust-project.eu/job-call/

(1/3)New article with @drorlysiow.bsky.social & @cerifowler.bsky.social "Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #gendersky #polisky

Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?

To what extent do the most powerful political office-holders engage with extra-parliamentary representatives from the most marginalised groups? To what extent and how are these relationships inters...

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What a pleasure to have @drorlysiow.bsky.social speak to researchers at the @policyatkings.bsky.social and share her work (with @drashleec.bsky.social and @cerifowler.bsky.social) on ministers' engagement with equalities organisations!

No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham: "The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."

This is the key paragraph of Dodds' resgination letter:

Well done to Anneliese Dodds for sticking to her principles on this. A terrible decision by Keir Starmer to fund increased defence spending by cutting support for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget

Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine

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Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship – not half, as some reports would have you believe theconversation.com/only-6-of-ge...

Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship – not half, as some reports would have you believe

Gen Z don’t hate democracy, they have a problem with the way it is being delivered.

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📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 5th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London! Keynotes: Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) and Peter van der Windt (NYU-Abu Dhabi). No fee, travel grants available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpeearly

Come work with us! We're looking for a Lecturer and Reader + Deputy Director in Public Policy at the International School for Government, during a period of growth for the school as it expands its delivery of courses for the UK civil service ➡️ t.co/V7zsmQpGR9

Enjoyed meeting the friendly @policyatkings.bsky.social crew this week to share thoughts on how qualitative insights can improve experimental designs and analysis - thanks @pmorini.bsky.social for kindly hosting!

We (@lisazanottiphd.bsky.social & Noam Titelman) are organising a workshop on polarisation and democratic decline in March/April at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social. Please share and apply! www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res... @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social

Net migration could fall to zero, and visa rules could make life for migrants even more absolute hellish, but the UK media frame of “migration numbers remain (too) high” will never die.

🚨 Early-career researchers: One day left to apply for our fully funded workshop on „Citizens‘ Views on Representation“ 👇

Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine@chriswratil.bsky.social · 2y ago

You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge

❗DO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW WANT TO DO A PHD? We have a PhD project on 'Democratic Resilience, Identities, and Geographical Imaginaries'. Fully funded ✅ Generous research support grant ✅ Supervised by me and a colleague in Geography. Details: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/irs/wp-conte...

🗣️ Call for papers: 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration, May 22–23 in Madrid Keynotes by the brilliant Leah Boustan & @deanyang.bsky.social Submissions due January 26th —> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #econconf #econsky

New insights from the World Values Survey UK data while the Labour government thinks about extending the voting age to 16: younger respondents are significantly more concerned about unfair election coverage in the media, bribery and the influence of richer people on the electoral process.

I introduced our book, Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power (2016) with reflections on the 30th anniversary re-release of the single: www.routledge.com/Celebrity-Hu...

Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, place and power

Discussion over celebrity engagement is often limited to theoretical critique or normative name-calling, without much grounded research into what it is that celebrities are doing, the same or differen...

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