Politics at Southampton

Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at gain@soton.ac.uk so that we can get an idea of numbers!

I am so excited that this excellent line-up of speakers are presenting in the LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social Political Behaviour seminar series this term! 👇

Submit your abstracts to our ECPG Section for Newcastle 2026 👇

This article took a really long time to be published! We started the project in 2021, then life happened. Some reviewers also didn't like the application of OSP to demoinno lit

with my wonderful co-authors Matt Ryan, Rafa Mestre, Masood Gheasi and George Bolton from @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

a new article, friends!

on #democraticinnovations and #opensciencepractices!

a thread will follow at some point!

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Absolute delight to attend this last week 👇

Several of my great new colleagues at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social and their collaborators have to put together this blockbuster paper on what happened when the UK Labour Party adopted radical right rhetoric on immigration. A must read for centre left parties across Europe.

I spoke to @newstatesman.com on the results, where my main point from the paper was that there is *no* modelling strategy that shows a positive effect for Labour.

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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So happy that mine and @stefaniereher.bsky.social ESRC grant application for a 4 year comparative project on disability and political parties was successful!! @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

The secrets of being a government minister | Institute for Government To mark the 10th anniversary of Ministers Reflect, this special Inside Briefing takes a look at what former ministers have told us in the last decade.

I forgot about this in the chaos of summer, but a month or so ago I was on this @instituteforgovernment.org.uk podcast on government ministers alongside @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com @timdurrant.bsky.social and others:

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/insi...

Great to see this timely work out by one of our @sotonpolitics.bsky.social PhD students (whom I’m proud to be co-supervising) #migcitsky

New avenues in political trust research European Consortium for Political Research

I'm looking forward to my first @ecpr.bsky.social conference! I'm going because there's a trust bonanza organized by the indefatigable Ben Seyd and @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Causes, consequences, trends, voting, policy, measurement and conceptualization; they've got it all 👇

Interested in working with us?

Leverhulme early-career fellowships might be for you. Get in touch with us if you have an idea!

www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

📝On our blog, we reflect on the @psawomenpol.bsky.social y.social annual conference we hosted here at @unisouthampton.bsky.social ! We were delighted to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who study gender and inequalities. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/2025/07...

New article out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social in which I provide a comparative analysis of disability & political parties and develop a framework for assessing their accessibility.

Politics journal article: A new Elizabethan age: The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and the nostalgic politics of Anglofuturism

My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ‪✍️

✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias

💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain

@sotonpolitics.bsky.social

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Numerous inaccuracies here, but faith has shaped ideas of national identity in England. What role does faith play today? The Centre for English Identity and Politics is publishing blogs and articles from different faith perspectives

www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...

🎉 What an incredible year for CPE!
We hosted some of the best scholars in political ethnography, launched new series, and ended with our first-ever CPE workshop. Here’s a look back at 2024—and what’s coming next! 🧵

Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations at University of Southampton Apply now for the Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

At @sotonpolitics.bsky.social we have two positions for Teaching Fellows:

1. EU politics, policy, human rights, gender: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX849/t...

2. (American) political theory: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX882/t...

Not your specific area? Apply anyway!

📢 Check out the new Spring issue of QMMR!
It features a Classroom Notes piece by our co-director @marianaborges.bsky.social, reflecting on how the digital world has become central to everyday life and how we can prepare researchers to engage with it as a vital window into the lives of those we study

Methods Summer School - Knowledge and tools for research with vulnerable populations Margaret Ifeoma Abazie-Humphrey, discusses valuable takeaways and highlights from the course.

BISA, with @sotonpolitics.bsky.social held their first Methods Summer School 🌟

Margaret Ifeoma Abazie-Humphrey from @bristoluni.bsky.social, a scholarship receiver, discusses her valuable takeaways and highlights from the course 🎉

Found out more about Margaret's takeways 👉

A new 'public opinion analytics lab' has been launched: publicopinionanalyticslab.github.io/people/

Led by @miriamsorace.bsky.social, @sarahobolt.bsky.social , @drjennings.bsky.social and a thematic leadership team, POAL advances research & teaching of public opinion measurement and analysis.

Why are working class people under-represented in legislatures?

We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against.

We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:

Methods Summer School - Knowledge, inspiration, and practical tools for development Michael Mo discusses attending the BISA-sponsored PAIR methods summer school at Southampton.

BISA partnered with @sotonpolitics.bsky.social launched their first Methods Summer School 🌟

Michael Mo who was provided with BISA bursaries to attend told us his valuable takeaways and highlights from the course 🎉

read more here 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/met...

At #epsa2025? Come and meet us!

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At #epsa2025? Come and meet us!

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And yesterday we wrapped it up! A group photo (without @andreavik.bsky.social 😭).

Thanks to all the attendees for a valuable and rewarding few days.

Hopefully see you next year?

That's the back of my head! 🤩

Joking aside, a wonderful couple of days. Thanks for having us all!

The CPE is delighted to welcome prof Rosana @pinheiromachado.bsky.social to @unisouthampton.bsky.social for our workshop next week for a keynote lecture entitled: Rage, Dreams and Insubordination: How the Far Right and Social Media Mobilize the Working Class. If you are around, please pop by!