Tim Legrand

New article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social w/ @michaellister.bsky.social & @apowelllaw.bsky.social on the naming of laws after exemplary victims of injustice. While opening space for addressing harm, such laws also, we argue, pose political & legal risks: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We could have written an entirely separate piece about Kneecap, frankly. It’s a really unusual to see a ‘showing support’ charge brought against someone who is quite clearly not a member of the proscribed group

Proscribing Palestine Action: Questions and Issues for the UK The freedom of association is a fundamental tenet of liberalism, and interfering with it can evoke authoritarianism.

New piece with @timlegrand.bsky.social on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/27/p...

Proscribing Palestine Action: Questions and Issues for the UK The freedom of association is a fundamental tenet of liberalism, and interfering with it can evoke authoritarianism.

www.e-ir.info/2025/06/27/p...

Fellow Australian political scientists and IR scholars - please share 👇👇👇👇

A new way of presenting your research at @auspsa.bsky.social for anyone who wants their paper to speak for itself!

PhD Scholarship: Violent and Misogynistic Ideologies in Online Spaces - Flinders University

🚨🚨 New funded PhD, looking at Violent and Misogynistic Ideologies in Online Spaces. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...
@timlegrand.bsky.social
@tasayouth.bsky.social @flindersuniversity.bsky.social @auspsa.bsky.social @bts-adams.bsky.social

It was nice to chat yesterday with ABC WA Statewide Drive about our @aunz.theconversation.com piece on Gen-Z turnout in Australia.

If you want to have a listen, here is the link!

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... (from 01:09:45)

The PhD project: This PhD project explores the international politics of exclusion and investigates the mechanisms by which authoritarian regimes pursue and persecute citizens they have blacklisted for their political beliefs. Its findings will be vital to revealing the cross border patterns and processes of exclusion by authoritarian states, and contribute to our knowledge of how such systems can be resisted by institutes and agents of global democracy. Funding: This is a fully-funded PhD scholarship, which includes an annual stipend of AU$32,500 and a full waiver of tuition fees. The funding period runs for 3.5 years, and comes with additional research funds to support travel and other costs. Location: This is a full-time PhD project based at the University of Adelaide, Australia. The successful candidate must be based in Adelaide for the duration of the PhD project. Unfortunately this position cannot be converted into a part-time role. Eligibility: Eligible applicants must have completed a Bachelor’s degree in Politics, Sociology, International Relations or a related social sciences discipline. You must also hold a Master’s degree that has a significant thesis component of 6,000 words or more. There are no nationality constraints. Desirable (but not essential) qualities: Fluency in one of the following languages: Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Hungarian, or Arabic Experience in qualitative research methods How to apply: Please email, with the subject line “ARC Blacklisting PhD Project”, the following materials to tim.legrand@adelaide.edu.au by the 20th April 2025 Your CV, indicating your qualifications and research experience; A sample of your academic writing and/or a copy of your most recent thesis-length work; and A statement (no more than 500 words) outlining your suitability for the project.

📣 Fully-funded #PhD alert 📣

Join my excellent team at the Uni of Adelaide investigating authoritarian repression & blacklisting.

📍Adelaide, Australia
🎓 3.5 year project
💰AU$32,500 annual scholarship
⏰ Deadline 20th April 2025
✉️ Tim.legrand@adelaide.edu.au

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Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

Postdoc position alert! 🚨Based at Uni of Adelaide with the ever-brilliant Dr Nathan Manning and me, our focus is on digital extremism and young Australians.

🔥 Deadline is 3rd April 🔥

careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Research Star ⬇️

2025-26 will hopefully see many many publications on youth wings.

A book on populist radical right youth wings in 10 European countries from this team:

🚨Landing soon: the final edition of the year. It is a Special Edition on "Minilateralism and the new Indo-Pacific: theoretical ambitions and empirical realities," guest edited by Professors Jagannath Panda and Daewon Ohn. Working on the final proofs now. 👀
#AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing

Delighted to see this now out & open access in EJIS. The article explores what happens when seemingly critical ideas around counterterrorism achieve wider currency. Coauthored with @michaellister.bsky.social, huge thanks to the reviewers & editors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/eis....

Yolande Bouka #QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation

Come work with me!
I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations.
www.queensu.ca/research/res...

I’m so sorry, Roland. Emma was such a wonderful person and academic. My deepest condolences to you and Emma’s family.

The victory march of democracy has ended

What can we as researchers do?

In the Scandinavian countries, a particular tool is available: Democracy & Power Studies.

The Danish government appointed me as director of such a study. We started our work this year.

A 🧵 on what we do & how we do it

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Hey Jack! 👋

A starter pack of the Australian foreign policy, security and international relations community. As more accounts join, let me know if there's anyone that has been missed or if you'd like to be added 👇

go.bsky.app/VqMquA

This feature hasn’t been built in yet, but a user designed a feed that you can pin to home that is essentially bookmarking. Comment 📌 on any post and it’ll get saved for you in the feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Why is there no bookmark feature here? It would be really useful to save insightful posts, for our own learning and to refer to when challenging misleading claims and narratives especially those peddled by the ruling class. It’s an essential tool for accountability.

👋🏼 Hi all. I’m a Berlin-based journalist reporting on the rise of global authoritarianism and the defense of democracies. I’ve reported from Beijing, Moscow, Havana — even Pyongyang! Give me a RT and follow if you’re interested in these topics! 🌎🌍🌏

Haha, that’s exactly what I felt too! Flashbacks…

Massaman Beef Curry This is another recipe inspired by my Thai travels — see Thai Noodles with Cinnamon and Prawns — and I have cooked it many, many times since. It is essentially a beef and potato stew, with all the com...

I’ve just added this cosy and aromatic Massaman Beef Curry to nigella.com, so of course it’s #RecipeOfTheDay! I cook this without the potatoes, then give it a day or two in the fridge before adding the potatoes and continuing, but you can cook it all the way through www.nigella.com/recipes/mass...

Flow of the vote, 2019-24, revised using @britishelectionstudy.com data.

Only a few minor alterations, but the shifts are still striking - without even getting onto non voters and demographic churn, over 10m voters voted for a different party in 2024 than in 2019.

Now that’s niche!

Thanks, Adela!

Fixed - you're in!
go.bsky.app/UtgJPaZ

Wahey!! Thanks, Ben! I feel all warm inside now 😅

Orbán’s oil funded thinktank is murky on transparency As a network of Hungarian organisations continues to try to mainstream Orbán's far right policies in Europe, his think tank MCC Brussels – financed by Russian oil earnings – has so far managed to avoi...

Orbán's far-right propaganda "university" Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), bloated with money directly from public coffers, also appears to be propped up with Russian oil money through the institutions shares in MOL.