Centre for Democratic Futures

Fantastic day yesterday first in series of #inyourbones workshops coproducing policy info & educational resources 4 skeletal health with local communities. Part science 🔬🧑‍🔬 part art 🎭 🎨 @artcareuk.bsky.social
Gr8 timing with call 4 evidence in mens health now open 👇 👇🎉
www.gov.uk/government/c...

Can, and should, the principles of deliberative democracy be applied to how global citizens’ assemblies are organised?

This week, @rikkidean.bsky.social, @melross.bsky.social and Flynn Devine tackle questions of values and practice in Research x Practice Exchange #2

➡️ glocan.org/wp-content/u...

Helpful new GlobCit report on the global state of citizenship: globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...

Women and Politics | The Political Studies Association (PSA) 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…

*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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We're excited that it is now less than a month until our symposium 'Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary'.

With a keynote from Ariana Markowitz, ‘Now you see it: Using art to practise democracy amid violence’.

You can still register for free at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cdf-sympos...

“Prioritizing inclusivity in research will broaden our understanding of AD/ADRD, leading to greater awareness, earlier and more accurate diagnosis, and ultimately to equitable treatments and interventions that benefit all communities” I say BRAVO to this, refreshing to see this clarity&commitment

Join us at @cdfuos.bsky.social for a two-day conference on Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary, 3-4 July.

Free to register. Just sign up here: www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve...

Musculoskeletal Health Theme Webinar: Dr Lucy Gates and Ms Awa Touray | DSxHE Integrating traditional healing with modern health care for more equitable fracture care pathways in The Gambia

Next #DSxHE MSK seminar #FortisNet 7th July 4pm GMT
Dr Lucy Gates and Awa Touray @unisouthampton.bsky.social - Equitable Fracture Care Pathways in The Gambia #healthequity #fracture 🦴 🇬🇲
Register now! 👇

www.datascienceforhealthequity.com/event-detail...

Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK Health inequity at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK Health inequity at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD opportunity 👇Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK health inequity @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social & Prof Kai Yang @winchesterschoolofart @unisouthampton.bsky.social Apply now ✍️ rolling deadline start Oct 25
cidns-cdt.ac.uk

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

You can join us for:

🧠 Mixed methods training
📝 Qualitative training
📊 Quantitative training

See how 👇

Check out this qualitative methods workshop from our colleagues @polethnography.bsky.social. Get your proposals in by 30 May.

#polisky @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

Radical reforms to reduce migration Britain's failed immigration system will be radically reformed so the system is controlled, managed and fair under a landmark White Paper.

Tomorrow there's a big White Paper on immigration (www.gov.uk/government/n...). Whatever else it does, it's bound to refuel Labour’s internal debate about net migration -- a debate full of assumptions about public opinion. Strap in for a long thread about a survey testing some of those assumptions.

Scottish Election Study annual lecture 2025 We welcome Professor Jane Green to give the annual lecture for the Scottish Election Study

This year's Scottish Election Study Annual Lecture, delivered by our outstanding colleague and @britishelectionstudy.com Co-Director @profjanegreen.bsky.social, will take place a week on Monday in Edinburgh! 👩🏼‍🏫

Details and sign up below 🔽

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-e...

Dying Matters 2025 | μ-VIS X-ray Imaging Centre (muvis) We’re proud to be part of #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek 2025 at University Hospital Southampton NHS FT. On 6 May, our 3D X-ray Histology team, and the Biomedical Imaging Unit will be joining forces wit...

First post on an initiative that means a lot to our team!

We’re proud to be part of #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek 2025 at @uhsft.bsky.social

www.linkedin.com/posts/muvisx...

@uosmedia.bsky.social @biu-em.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Come and join us for a free summer school 🌞🌞🌞

very much looking forward to this (virtual!) event with @hertieschool.bsky.social and Columbia World Projects, where i'll be talking how to design & govern digital platforms to promote democratic practice, incl. new thoughts on things like decentralized platforms/protocols & crowdsourced moderation!

Just a few days left to apply for this postdoc position and come and join me at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social & @cdfuos.bsky.social.

*The deadline is the 28th*
(not the 30th as I wrongly stated in the original post).

With thanks to @melross.bsky.social for becoming unofficial project photographer.

Rebooting Democracy welcomed international guests and collaborators to a project workshop last week in Southampton. Sessions focused on climate democracy, using AI in deliberation, political behaviour, co-production, and democratic oversight of emerging technologies.
www.rebootingdemocracy.ac.uk

On the left is the book cover for Empathy and Political Reasoning. On the right is headshots of Lala Muradova and the three discussants and date and time of the event.

Join us for the launch of Lala Muradova's (@lalamur.bsky.social) new book in the Cambridge Elements series, Empathy and Political Reasoning.

With star discussants Florian Foos, Tereza Capellos and Konstantinos Katsikopoulous.

7 May, 12pm UK.

Register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Now that you are finishing up your teaching it is time to start dreaming about the exciting summer conferences.

We have extended the deadline for abstracts for Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary until 18th April.

Time for #Fortisnet 2025!🥳 Advancing Inclusive MSK Research First Social Factors in MSK from osteoporosis with Sarah Jarvis MBE🦴, then to lower limb conditions in Nepal and Adventures in prosthetics and orthotic design 🦿 #healthequity #inclusiveresearch @cdfuos.bsky.social

Hope, Optimism, and Expectations for the Political Future - Political Behavior Expectations of what the future holds are a significant driver of political behavior. It is therefore important to understand the sources of those expectations. In this paper, we explore the psycholog...

My article with @robjohns75.bsky.social, "Hope, Optimism, and Expectations for the Political Future", is now out open access at @polbehavior.bsky.social.

It's about the psychology of expecting good things to happen in politics.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) at University of Southampton Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) on jobs.ac.uk!

There's a golden job to join us as a research fellow with @rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic process preferences in Europe, funded by the ERC

✅ 3 years
📊 Mixed methods
💰 Resources for data & conferences
👥 Good group of people working on similar things

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI418/r...

🌾💡 #Bluesky Starter Pack of the Weizenbaum Institute 🚀

We've gathered the Bluesky accounts of Weizenbaum researchers for networking and connecting on #digitalization research: go.bsky.app/NH1NhmS

@wzb.bsky.social @fokuspublic.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social

🚨We are so excited to announce that we are hosting the PSA Women & Politics @psawomenpol.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference here in 📍Southampton! The conference, Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st Century, will be held from 📅 17 to 18 June! More details are in the CFP linked below.

A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and Democracy | TechPolicy.Press Dr. Nelson was key to the Biden administration’s AI strategy. Justin Hendrix spoke with her about today’s developments and her vision for the future.

🎙️New podcast! A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and Democracy

I spoke to @alondra.bsky.social about AI, democracy, DOGE, and how to plan for a different future: techpolicy.press/a-conversati...

A few spaces still remaining for #FortisNet 2025
Advancing Inclusive MSK health 🦶🦵🦴🏃
Registration details below 👇 Packed programme of brilliant speakers and pilot funding available on the day to kickstart new partnerships and ideas 2🤩 Join us! #healthequity

CfP: Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary.

Join us 3-5 July for a symposium to discuss:
- Fugitivity & the politics of refusal
- Anticolonial imaginaries
- Artistic practice & performance
- Democratic innovations

Deadline for abstracts: 4 April
www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve...

Join us for 2 sunny* summer days at CDF (@cdfuos.bsky.social) for Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary.

Deadline for submitting your paper ideas is 4th April. More info on themes at: www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve...

*sunny weather not guaranteed.