Pile of copies of book 'Climate Assemblies'. Text reads: Book Launch. Climate Assemblies. New Civic Institutions for a Climate-changed World. Oliver Escobar and Stephen Elstub. ‘Climate Assemblies’ brings together 25 authors to offer novel perspectives, critical insights and practical reflections based on original research about paradigmatic cases at local, national, transnational and global levels.
Book Launch
Friday 24th October
1pm-2.30pm
Online
Join us for the launch of
Climate Assemblies
New Civic Institutions for a Climate-changed World
Edited by Oliver Escobar and Stephen Elstub
Info and booking:
edin.ac/4nKszjT
30.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This is my latest piece in The Loop @ecpr.bsky.social based on recent fieldwork in Argentina 🇦🇷. Thank you to all the officials and informants who shared their insights with me.
@edinburghpir.bsky.social
21.08.2025 09:20 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
At @edinburghpir.bsky.social, I was lucky enough to share an office with @ugurozdemir.bsky.social and @jess-smith.bsky.social, and then with Nicola Nymalm. I can't imagine better office-mates; fun, friendly, and thoughtful.
11.08.2025 12:41 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Festival of Politics
The Scottish Parliament's Festival of Politics is open to everyone. It aims to engage, inspire and inform.
Excited to see our amazing @edinburghpir.bsky.social academics contributing to key debates at this year’s Festival of Politics! 🗣️📢
festivalofpolitics.scot
07.08.2025 12:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to all @uoe-sps.bsky.social summer grads! 🎓 Great to see @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff celebrating your achievements. Well done, students! 👏
06.08.2025 14:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful Politics & IR @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff presence at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social summer graduation. Congrats to our fab students! @uoe-sps.bsky.social
10.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢We first hear from:
- Prof Will Jessett CBE (SC Strategy)
- Prof Paul Rogers (Emeritus, @uniofbradford.bsky.social)
- Dr Claire Duncanson (@edinburghpir.bsky.social)
🍃Both Claire and Paul commented on the lack of acknowledgement of climate change in the new National Security Strategy.
17.07.2025 11:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Making sense of federalism – insights from an open-ended survey question
While there is much debate in research about nuances of federal governance, we actually know little about how citizens make sense of federalism. As several studies show, citizens often hold vague a...
🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲!
Making sense of 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 – insights from an 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
🔓 Read the new #openaccess article by Eva-Maria Trüdinger, Achim Hildebrandt, Simon Stocker, @ajazajilirjana.bsky.social & @pbundi.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359...
#federalism #democracy
04.08.2025 07:57 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
👏 A brilliant final contribution from @niceonecombo.bsky.social — this collection of blog posts from the political behaviour course is full of sharp, thoughtful insights. Well worth exploring!
Thank you for everything — you'll be greatly missed! 💛
09.07.2025 10:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In response to the new UK National Security Strategy and SDR, here's my analysis of changing threat topics in UK national security and defence documents since 1998.
@uoe-sps.bsky.social @scga.bsky.social @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org @rusi.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social
26.06.2025 09:25 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Thrilled to have received the "honourable mention" (runner up place) from the Journalism Studies division of #ICA2025, together with longstanding coauthors @martinscott2010.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social. Our hearty congratulations to the overall winner @ruthmoon.bsky.social!
16.06.2025 11:58 — 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
I’m thinking that my course next semester on authoritarianism (might need a week on authoritarianism in books and on film?! (Autocracy and Resistence in the 21st Century! @edinburghpir.bsky.social )
11.06.2025 21:29 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
@uoe-cahss.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edincollegeofart.bsky.social @edcdcs.bsky.social @stis-uoe.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoesocialwork.bsky.social #RefugeeWeek
16.06.2025 13:05 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@alyssamartin.bsky.social joins us from @edinburghpir.bsky.social to discuss her observations from the Scottish Carers Parliament
17.06.2025 14:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Really looking fw to these events - pop round if you're in Helsinki and interested in academic publishing, existentialism, or the intellectual and cultural underpinnings of the radical right @edinburghpir.bsky.social @risjnl.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @gnobisa.bsky.social
28.05.2025 08:22 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
A quick reminder that the last seminar in our series for this term will be happening online tomorrow 💫
Join us to hear about the QUALREP project from PIs @profrosiecamp.bsky.social and @profsarahchilds.bsky.social
We hope you can join us!
@edinburghpir.bsky.social
⬇️
27.05.2025 11:14 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“We didn’t really get to hear what [English nationalism] is in simple language, but we were left in no doubt about what it is not – European.” Important read 👇 (includes h/t to @ailsahenderson.bsky.social’s research, ping @edinburghpir.bsky.social)
27.05.2025 09:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, with Curtis Chin
Join author Curtis Chin for his story of what it was like growing up Asian in Detroit and coming out to his working class immigrant family.
A @uoe-sps.bsky.social, Staff Pride, BAME Network, & Queer.ED collab! Curtis Chin talks about growing up/ coming out as gay in a working-class immigrant community and first gen University student. ☕️🍵🍪
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everything...
@edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social
22.05.2025 08:50 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
How gender, labour and tech intersect in Bangalore’s startup culture - LSE Review of Books
Hemangini Gupta's Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…
NEW ✨ How gender, labour and tech intersect in Bangalore’s startup culture 👩🏾💻🇮🇳
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India by @hgupta.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
#BookReview by @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social
19.05.2025 11:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
QUALREP
💫QUALREP Gender and Politics Seminar💫
We're putting our own PIs in the hot seat for the final seminar this term - @profrosiecamp.bsky.social & @profsarahchilds.bsky.social!
Event details:
📆 Wed 28 May
⏰3-4pm GMT
📍Online - register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bfd7b0...
www.qualrep.org
19.05.2025 14:30 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Huge congratulations to our PIR Superheroes! 👏🎉
16.05.2025 08:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you Nicholas Hopton for visiting @uoe-sps.bsky.social - both events were packed and the audience highly engaged! Thanks to Dr Nida Alahmad and Dr Lucy Abbott for expertly chairing the discussions. Grateful to the Departments of African Studies and Sociology for co-sponsoring the events.
16.05.2025 08:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
My review of Judith Butler's latest book is out in Contemporary Sociology!
"Who's Afraid of Gender" is a must read for all, especially those on the fence about the attacks on trans folks/allies.
@edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
15.05.2025 08:46 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
An important read from our own @davidevampa.bsky.social 👇
10.05.2025 09:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
@uofgnews.bsky.social
@uofgvc.bsky.social
@uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
@edinburghpir.bsky.social
@uoe-sps.bsky.social
@standrewsir.bsky.social
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social
08.05.2025 11:20 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The CMRS brings together staff and students from across the University of Edinburgh studying the medieval and Renaissance periods.
Find out more at https://hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medieval-renaissance/seminars-and-events/seminars
Senior Lecturer in IR, University of Edinburgh.
First all-Scotland international relations institute.
Hub for collaborative policy-relevant research & home for informed, non-partisan debate on foreign policy.
scga.scot
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Compte du Département de science politique de l'Université libre de Bruxelles / Account of the Department of Political Science of the Université libre de Bruxelles
We are creating an environment where data-driven research can grow and thrive. Join us! #EdCDCS #DataLedResearch
www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk
Showcasing excellence in gender and sexuality studies teaching, research and KEI at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Hosted by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, powered by @uoe-sps.bsky.social #UoE_genderED
The Bayes Centre is the University of Edinburgh's Innovation Hub for Data Science and AI.
Associate Professor of Communication & Sociology at Northwestern University. Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. Author of Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere (Oxford UP, 2024).
Hello Bluesky! We are a network for research and teaching in Environmental Humanities at University of Edinburgh 🌱✨🌞🐛❄️
Official feed of Edinburgh Law School, based at the University of Edinburgh. Follow us for news and updates on study and research at the School.
Visit the website: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/
Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
Senior Lecturer in Counselling & Psychotherapy, University of Edinburgh; #psychoanalysis and social justice; critical #reflexivity; #decolonial; 🐶 mum
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/ninifangdr
SL in Politics. University of Edinburgh, PIR
#PoliticsOfMigration. #MS #Leither 🏴
Own account/(re)posts=interesting
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/pontus-odmalm
Senior Lecturer in Territorial Politics, University of Edinburgh
Co-director of @ccc-research.bsky.social
Lead editor of @regfedst.bsky.social
Chair of @ecprfederalism.bsky.social
Views are my own.
Analyst at Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Sociology PhD Univ. Stirling (2019-2024). Interested in ethnic penalties, labour market impacts, refugee integration, social stratification, and lgbtqia+ research.
Review of International Studies serves the needs of scholars in international relations and related fields such as politics, history, law, and sociology.
Research Fellow (Politics), University of Edinburgh @edinburghpir.bsky.social
📍 Northern Ireland / Edinburgh
UK Politics | Northern Ireland | Brexit | Identity | Conflict | Gender | Territorial Politics | Institutions
