Nominations open for this fab @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social dissertation prize! A submission deadline you won't want to miss 🌟

Political Studies Association@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

*PSA Prizes* We invite nominations for Elizabeth Wiskemann Dissertation Prize, covering the study of (in)equality and social justice. Deadline: 29 April ⬇️ Link below

With the #PSA26 chapter now closed, we wanted to send a massive thank you out to all of our brilliant presenters, chairs and audience members who made our panels such a fab space! We can't wait to see you all again at events in the future 🤩 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group@psawomenpol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 #PSA26 is just around the corner and we couldn't be more excited! We are thrilled to share that our group is sponsoring eight panels across all three conference days. We will also be hosting our AGM on Tuesday 👀 We can't wait to see you all in Oxford next week! ✨ @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

#PSA26 is finally here! 🥳 Come join us at 9:30am for our first Women and Politics panel of the conference! See you soon 🤩 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group@psawomenpol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 #PSA26 is just around the corner and we couldn't be more excited! We are thrilled to share that our group is sponsoring eight panels across all three conference days. We will also be hosting our AGM on Tuesday 👀 We can't wait to see you all in Oxford next week! ✨ @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🚨 #PSA26 is just around the corner and we couldn't be more excited! We are thrilled to share that our group is sponsoring eight panels across all three conference days. We will also be hosting our AGM on Tuesday 👀 We can't wait to see you all in Oxford next week! ✨ @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

My new article with Anna Elomäki and Claudia Weisner analyses how, despite international policy conversations about building caring economies, even countries well-poised to invest in care after COVID-19 did not do so: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... @rhulpir.bsky.social

Towards Caring Economies? Feminist Economic Visions and COVID-19 Recovery in Germany, Canada, and Finland

Feminist economic and feminist political economy approaches have long critiqued the gendered division of labor that relies, in part, on women’s underpaid or unpaid care work in public and in privat...

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🌟PSA PRIZES🌟 Nominations for Academic Prizes are now open! 📢 We invite prize nominations outstanding Research, Professional Contributions and Teaching & Learning. 📆 Deadline for nominations 1 December 2025 ➡️ Full details, eligibility, guidelines and forms online

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🚨New article🚨 What do people want from political leaders in times of crisis, and are those preferences gendered? Interested? Then check out our new Electoral Studies paper @jess-smith.bsky.social @viktorv.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social @hannahbunting.bsky.social @carolineleicht.bsky.social

Working on American politics research? 📚 Good news: We've extended our CFP deadline to Dec 10! APG 52nd Annual Conference 📅 Jan 7-9, 2026 📍 UEA, Norwich 🎤 Keynote: Prof Angelia Wilson 🏆 De Gruyter is sponsoring a prize for the best PGR/ECR paper! Info: ukpsaapg.co.uk/annual-conference/

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52nd annual conference of the American Politics Group: 7th – 9th January 2026, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Photo by Idean Azad on Pexels.com Dates of Event: 7th – 9th January 2026 Booki…

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📣 Call for Papers: GenElect Annual Workshop on the Study of Gender and Elections University of Manchester, Jan 12th-13th 26 Deadline: 5th Dec 25 Send us your papers on gender and elections, public opinion, parties, representation! @psaepop.bsky.social Abstract submission here: lnkd.in/d2AQFYxN

Look what I got in the mail! 📪 The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in Southeast Asia, edited by Netina Tan and Yuko Kasuya. Check out my chapter on gender equality! edin.ac/4gv13nG @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @psawomenpol.bsky.social

Is partner partisanship associated with vote choice? @cerifowler.bsky.social finds that it was for the 2016 Brexit Referendum & subsequent elections in the UK & argues that this can help us understand gender gaps in vote choice. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/eRDc16d @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky

IN NEW ISSUE: What’s driving the narrowing gender gap in party activism? Susan E. Scarrow, JeongKyu Suh & Jamie M. Wright find shifts in party participation aren’t all about women stepping up but also about men stepping back - buff.ly/xa7cPL9 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

News of more workshops incoming for our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded project on neurodivergent archive accessibility, 'Divergent Minds in the Archive'! Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to know: forms.office.com/e/MDNma65e53

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

The last panel of the day on 'Feminist Histories, Nationalisms and Global Crises' getting under way!

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Our last panel of the day is commenced by Dr Maki Kimura from UCL on religious, nationalism, militarism & gender inequality! Maki was part of a research network “Transforming Values: gender, religiosities & secularities across the globe” (2018-2022) & highlights moving from binaries. @ucl.ac.uk

Closing this panel, @fionamaybuckley.bsky.social from Uni College Cork presents research with Prof Yvonne Galligan (Tech Uni Dublin) on party candidate strategy in the context of legislative gender quotas by assessing women’s electoral performance at the 2024 Irish 🇮🇪 general election 🗳️

From @sotonpolitics.bsky.social we have PhD researcher 📚 Tom Guyton-Day presenting his work with @elizabethjevans.bsky.social on whether fewer tiers means fewer women? They explore this through the case of gender representation and local government reform in England.

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 The apparent rising gender gap in political preferences is fact becoming one of the hottest topics in politics today. In this new short paper, @profrosiecamp.bsky.social‬ & Minna Cowper-Coles take a look at the data across generations and countries 📊 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

Next, we welcome @ggomesdacosta.bsky.social from Fed. Uni of Pernambuco discusses queering political representation in Latin America with a specific focus on Brazil 🇧🇷 and Peru 🇵🇪!

Next we have ⭐️ Sanwal Hussain Kharl from @astonuniversity.bsky.social presenting research on the impact of technology of women’s political participation in the Global South 🔍

Early start 🌅 for Day 2 of our conference with @psawomenpol.bsky.social with @sotonpolitics.bsky.social Alum 🎓 @carolineleicht.bsky.social at Uni of Glasgow on her research on the glass ceiling and glass cliff of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris in US election coverage.

Kicking off day 2 of our conference with @gain-centre.bsky.social. First up our panel on Participation, Representation and Inclusion beginning with @carolineleicht.bsky.social

Honoured to host an in conversation with Profs Fiona Mackay and Yvonne Galligan to celebrate the amazing contribution they have made to academia and specifically the study of gender and politics

We're well into our second panel on anti feminist resistance, backsliding and democratic resistance where @jennpiscopo.bsky.social is trying to convince us to be more optimistic!

Today we are honoured to host @psawomenpol.bsky.social here at @unisouthampton.bsky.social for the PSA Women and Politics conference! Today we kick off Day 1 of 2 with three panels. (🧵🪡) !

Excited to see our conference getting under way! Even if we are in a basement when it is 25 degrees outside... ☀️

PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group@psawomenpol.bsky.social · last yr.

Our annual conference co-hosted with @gain-centre.bsky.social at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social is well underway with a panel on Feminist Participation in State Building

Our annual conference co-hosted with @gain-centre.bsky.social at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social is well underway with a panel on Feminist Participation in State Building

*PSA EVENT* 🚨 Tomorrow is our PSA Women & Politics 2025 conference: Troubled Times: #Gender & #Politics in the 21st Century. Organised by @psawomenpol.bsky.social. 📆 17 - 18 June. At the Gender & Inequalities (GAIN) Centre, Southampton. ➡️

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Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st CenturyPSA Women and Politics Conference, June 17th/18th 2025Hosted by the Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre at the University of Southampton…

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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...

Celebrating the Careers of Yvonne Galligan & Fiona Mackay

The Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre and PSA's Women and Politics Standing Group are holding an Annual Conference titled ’Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century' at the Universit...

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🚨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