Joe Greenwood-Hau

We’re finishing the week with an away day, reflecting and planning for the next year - watch this space 😃

Happy weekend from us at the Centre to all of you! ☀️

@niceonecombo.bsky.social

18.07.2025 14:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Worth checking out the whole special edition of Parliamentary Affairs on the #votesat16 debate in the UK, co-edited by @jontonge.bsky.social, Thomas Loughran and Andy Mycock:

academic.oup.com/pa/issue/74/3

18.07.2025 11:04 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Public Support for Votes at 16 in the UK: The Effects of Framing on Rights and Policy Change Abstract. With votes at 16 implemented for local and devolved assembly elections in Scotland and Wales, the debate on the issue continues amongst politicia

Yesterday's news about #votesat16 seems as good a reason as any to shamelessly plug an old article by Raynee Gutting and myself.

We tested the effect on public support of framing votes at 16 as a right or a change, with interesting results:

academic.oup.com/pa/article/7...

18.07.2025 10:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

FINDING YOURSELF IN THE WORLD OF WORK - John Smith Centre This piece was written by Annie Ferguson, the John Smith Centre’s first Mayoral Internship Programme intern. When I stepped through the cloisters of the University of Glasgow for the first time as a w...

"Don’t rule yourself out. It’s daunting to put yourself out there, but that’s exactly why taking risks is essential for young students trying to find their feet in this world." 💡

Read Mayoral Intern Annie Ferguson's blog on her placement with @mayorofgm.bsky.social last summer 👇

10.07.2025 12:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The blogs cover polarisation(s), comedy and politics, post-truth, Gen Z and the far-right, the urban-rural divide in France, incels as political behaviour, promoting political participation, and online and offline mobilisation. That's a pretty good selection!

09.07.2025 10:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The last thing I did at @edinburghpir.bsky.social ‬and @uoe-sps.bsky.social, was create this site for the best blog posts from the political behaviour course that I ran:

blogs.ed.ac.uk/political_be...

There's some excellent stuff on a range of topics (see below). Well worth a read, in my opinion!

09.07.2025 10:23 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

I'm finally here on Bluesky, but am still on 'the other place' too: x.com/niceonecombo

Get in touch if you want to talk #UKYouthPoll, young people's politics, polling, political participation, or survey research.

09.07.2025 07:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can't wait to teach students the practicalities of polling, and work with them to highlight young people's views of UK politics!

09.07.2025 07:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

JOE GREENWOOD-HAU JOINS JOHN SMITH CENTRE - John Smith Centre We are delighted to welcome Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau to the John Smith Centre. Joe takes on a new post here at the University of Glasgow as the Centre’s first ever lecturer. In the coming academic year, h...

🚨 Delighted to join @JohnSmithCentre as a lecturer working on the annual #UKYouthPoll with Eddie Barnes, Elli Loose, and @uofgsocsci.bsky.social students. 🚨

www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/joe-gre...

09.07.2025 07:20 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

WELFARE BILL, INEQUALITIES AND VOTING - John Smith Centre Areas in ill health are switching to Reform – the disability benefits U-turn must be the start of a wider reckoning. This Tuesday, Keir Starmer faced an embarrassing climbdown over its welfare reform ...

✍️ NEW BLOG: Welfare bill, inequalities and voting ✍️

In our latest research blog, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social shares new analysis into the links between urban-rural and centre-periphery health inequalities and voting behaviour.

👇 Read here!

04.07.2025 10:02 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

A designed graphic with text reading: "LIVE. Unfinished Business: 25 years of devolution. Join the John Smith centre to mark the launch of a new book on Scotland's devolution journey. 27 August 2025, 6.30pm, Glasgow University Union, University Avenue, Glasgow." Next to the text are headshot-style photos of Henry McLeish, former First Minister of Scotland and co-author; Professor James Mitchell, Chair in Public Policy, University of Edinburgh, and co-author; Johann Lamont, former leader of the Scottish Labour Party; and Annemarie Ward, CEO Faces and Voices of Recovery UK. The graphic also shows the logos of the John Smith Centre and the University of Glasgow.

🚨 EVENT - Unfinished Business: 25 years of devolution 🚨

📖 Join us for the launch of Henry McLeish and Prof James Mitchell's new book on Scotland's devolution journey, Unfinished Business!

📅 27 August 2025
📍 Glasgow University Union
🎟️ Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unfinished...

08.07.2025 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A selfie-style photograph of a group of four people standing outside a concrete building on a sunny day. L-R: Eddie Barnes, Dr Elisabeth Loose, Lauren White, Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau.

🎉 We're delighted to have Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau joining the John Smith Centre as our first ever lecturer!

📊 Joe will be leading on our #UKYouthPoll undergraduate course, giving honours students the chance to design the poll themselves.

Welcome to the team!

🔗 www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/joe-gre...

08.07.2025 10:00 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0