Silvia Behrens

The Statistical Advantages of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy for Estimating Intersectional Inequalities - George Leckie, Andrew Bell, Juan Merlo, SV Subram... Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) is a multilevel regression approach grounded in intersectionality theory. I...

Pleased to see this out in print - detailing MAIHDA's desirable statistical properties.

"MAIHDA is especially valuable when inequalities are subtle or data for marginalised intersections are sparse - conditions common in practice"

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Big shoutout to our own Emma Russel & @silviab.bsky.social who recently presented their analysis of linked administrative data & the 'Growing Up in Scotland' cohort study at conferences in Fribourg 🇨🇭 & Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

This work is led by @moragtreanor.bsky.social & is part of @scadrdata.bsky.social 💪

What an honour to see Diane Elson launch her book at the WiSE Centre for Economic Justice @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social tonight. Her seminal work highlights the need to recognise unpaid work as part of the economy, including care, household labour and volunteering.

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NEW BLOG: Navigating care experience and education

We share more about our new hub of practical tools, rights guidance and real stories – and how we built it.

Read here: enquire.org.uk/the-promise/...

#KeepThePromise #CareExperience #AdditionalSupportForLearning

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

Living in an unequal society, regardless of individual wealth, can lead to structural changes in the brains of children.

#ScienceatKings #PopulationHealth

Without action families with children will see their disposable income fall over this parliament. Couples with children £750 worse off, lone parents £780.That’s electorally perilous.

Scrapping the 2 child limit and creating a minimum floor in universal credit would offset the fall.

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CAPITAL, PRIVILEGE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION - John Smith Centre The John Smith Centre invites you to join us for the launch of Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau’s new book, Capital, Privilege and Political Participation. The British Academy Monograph investigates how people’s…

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Join us for Joe Greenwood-Hau's book launch: Captial, Privilege and Political Participation.

📅8 Oct 2025
📍UofG campus

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Education, Attendance & Exclusion explored in this afternoon’s sessions in Dora Stoutzker Hall at #ADRUKConf25. Presenters included Neil Rowland @adrcni.bsky.social, Silvia Behrens @scadrdata.bsky.social, & Foteini Tseliou
@adrwales.bsky.social @wiserd-research.bsky.social. #Admindata

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On my way back to Glasgow after attending the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies conference in Fribourg. I had a great time connecting with researchers on issues of (educational) inequalities and longitudinal data analysis. Looking forward to the next one in Brussels! #SLLS2025

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Scrap two-child benefit cap to help lift 4m people out of poverty, government urged Exclusive: Cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission says abolishing limit would be part of its ‘once in a generation’ plan

Out tomorrow: our expert, cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission report. We propose a new social contract & plan to lift 4.2 million people out of poverty, incl 2.2 million stranded in deep poverty. Thanks @patrickjbutler.bsky.social for the insightful write up www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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🚨 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! 👇

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✨ Participation opportunity: Young people, data and research project

In partnership ‪@scadrdata.bsky.social‬ we are now inviting young people aged 14–21 to join an impactful new project all about shaping the future of data and research.

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Not sure if it hits the definition of a classic (yet), but I can recommend Only Murders in the Building.

Thank you, Christine. It has been a long time coming!

Delighted to see this published - this article is based on my PhD @unistrathclyde.bsky.social and started as a humble draft in the @psayoungpol.bsky.social "Paper to Publication" workshop. Maybe also interesting to researchers in @rc34youth.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social & @johnsmithcentre.com.

There is also evidence that non-electoral participation is more strongly predicted by the importance of political issues related to social topics, such as gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, and climate change, which ties back to the gendered differences in reported interest levels.

While institutional participation is found to be exclusively driven by interest in politics, particularly among young men, non-electoral participation is affected by both interest in politics and interest in social issues, with young women being more likely to engage in this mode of participation.

Using an original survey, the article examines how gendered perceptions of interest affect young people's political participation. The standard measure of political interest fails to acknowledge young people's repertoires of political actions and overlooks the gendered dimension of ‘political’.

Gender differences in political interest and participation among politically active youth This article examines how gendered perceptions of interest affect young people's engagement in political participation, including ‘Do-It-Ourselves Politics’. Interest in politics has long been esta...

New #openaccess publication: I’m very excited to share that my article on “Gender differences in political interest and participation among politically active youth” has been published by @youthstudies.bsky.social.
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#youthstudies #youthparticipation #gender

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Warum immer mehr Erstklässler Defizite haben Immer mehr Kinder müssen die erste Klasse wiederholen. Eine ARD-Umfrage unter 7.000 Grundschullehrkräften zeigt: Erstklässler haben heute mehr Defizite als vor zehn Jahren. Von Maryam Bonakdar und Ann...

Interessante ARD Doku über Bildungsungleichheit in der Grundschule und Versäumnisse in der frühkindlichen Bildung.

Es wäre außerdem sehr interessant, die gesamten Ergebnisse der Befragung von Lehrkräften zu lesen.

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What are the barriers to children’s early learning?

Over the last 18 months, @laouthwaite.bsky.social has worked with Ofsted, as part of the URKI Policy Fellowship scheme, to explore this question. Here’s what she found, why it matters, and what we can do about it

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Parts of this work have also been presented at polstudiesassoc.bsky.social‬ and @britsoci.bsky.social conferences in 2023 and 2024. @psayoungpol.bsky.social

I'm particularly grateful to the young activists who participated in the focus groups back in 2021 and @uofgussp.bsky.social colleagues who provided feedback on an earlier draft - Dr Jane Cullingworth, Dr @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social, Dr Alice Earley and Dr Francesca Vaghi.

“It’s Like Getting Someone Who’s Been Hit by a Car to Run a Speed Awareness Course”: How Young Activists in the UK Make Sense of Personal, Collective and Institutional Agency - Silvia Behrens, 2025 Current research into youth activism places emphasis on agency, but few empirical studies have looked into how the perception of agency impacts young people’s e...

New #openaccess publication in Youth & Society: Based on focus group research, this paper explores how young people politically active for #ClimateChange, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and #queerfeminism think about personal, collective and institutional agency.
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Starmer calls immigration policy over the past years a 'squalid' period. What a choice of language.

You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said.

A "queue-jumper", they said.

Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say.

A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say.

I am "pulling the country apart", they say.

Story: Versetzungsgefährdet: Deutschland in der Bildungskrise - hier anschauen Deutschland hat kaum Bodenschätze, kaum natürliche Ressourcen. Unser Kapital heißt Bildung. Damit hat es unser kleines Land zu einer der größten und wichtigsten Volkswirtschaften der Welt gebracht. Dr...

Armut ist und bleibt Faktor Nr. 1 für Bildungsungerechtigkeit in Deutschland.

Schade, dass die neue ARD Doku #Versetzungsgefährdet relativ wenig differenziert zwischen Bildung, Wissen und Intelligenz.

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