MPs’ pay and expenses are still touchy subjects for citizens. This paper by @helenbramah.bsky.social finds that mentioning the topic of politicians’ remuneration has a significant negative effect on political trust which is difficult to overcome.
13.10.2025 11:56 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Does independent regulation of MPs’ pay and expenses improve political trust? This paper tests how framing of information about politicians’ remuneration affects citizens’ trust judgements, drawing on original data from two pre-registered survey experiments.
03.10.2025 14:51 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A big thank you to @peterallen.bsky.social @iuliacioroianu.bsky.social and @swdtp.bsky.social for your support
30.09.2025 13:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Super excited to see the second paper from my PhD now published!
I find that making MPs' pay and expenses more salient significantly reduces political trust. Raising awareness of the regulator mitigates this effect when mentioning pay, but does not improve trust when expenses are mentioned.
30.09.2025 13:26 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Photo of conference participants enjoying the evening sun on Exeter Quayside
Loving being back in beautiful Exeter for #EPOP2025 @psaepop.bsky.social - rediscovering old haunts, meeting great people and enjoying some super interesting panels. Massive kudos to @hannahbunting.bsky.social for making it happen!
05.09.2025 16:57 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
New avenues in political trust research
European Consortium for Political Research
Looking forward to presenting my work as part of the section on #PoliticalTrust at #ecprgc25 in Thessaloniki next week ecpr.eu/Events/Event.... First time at an international conference!
20.08.2025 15:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to be in Manchester to meet other researchers & talk about politics in the UK and Europe after the 'year of elections'. Thank you @ukandeu.bsky.social for the opportunity!
22.04.2025 19:16 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Parents and Carers Network Wellbeing Retreat | SWDTP
What could universities and doctoral training partnerships do to better support PhD students who are parents or carers? Thanks to funding from @swdtp.bsky.social I organised a 2-day writing & wellbeing retreat for a group of 14 such students: the benefits were immediate and enduring bit.ly/43aN01V
25.02.2025 12:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Senior researcher/ Learning and development manager at Institute for Government.
All things parliament and government.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan.
Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Account Director, Chelgate | ‘Becoming Thatcher’ Routledge (2026) | PhD on Thatcher as Leader of the Opposition
Politics & IR Research Fellow @sotonpolitics.bsky.social ✨ sex, gender, voting behaviour and constitutions 📚 Iranian-American fuelled by cherry coke & fighting the patriarchy 🧿 views=my own
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Managing editor @LSE Press. We publish open access books and journals in the social sciences.
Researcher at @ikmz.bsky.social
PhD from @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Using computational and causal inference methods to research online media and political behavior
PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University of London | Researching affective polarisation in the UK & Europe | Pollster at Survation
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Politics, and Education @UVA.
I share social science.
Lecturer in British Politics & Programme Director BA Politics and Parliamentary Studies, @polisatleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social Wrote PhD on the Restoration & Renewal of Palace of Westminster. Reposts ≠ endorsements
Democracy Programme Lead / Senior Researcher - mySociety/TheyWorkForYou. Also for some reason Postman Pat reviews.
Research Fellow at IPPR North/IPPR - work on democracy, devolution, regional identity | PhD on the politics of Northernness
PhD student at University of Essex | Researching public opinion, political behaviour and ideology
Political scientist @official-uom.bsky.social studying elections and immigration, education and parties
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg. Studying gender, political violence and (Dutch) party politics
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Political scientist, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Doctor in Political Science who specializes in the relationship between social media news consumption and political sectarianism. I have written papers on conspiracy theories and far right populism.
Usually known as Bennie. PhD student @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Previously @lincoln.ox.ac.uk @uclspp.bsky.social. Researching attitude formation and political behaviour. She/Her.
PhD candidate at the LSE @lse-ei.bsky.social and affiliate
@lsedatascience.bsky.social | Political identities, methodology, note-taking and running
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