Politics at Southampton

The spring term seminar list for the department of politics and international relations at the University of Southampton. The weekly speakers every Wednesday (aside from holidays) from 13.00-14.30 between 4 March and 6 May are: March 4, Petra Schleiter (Oxford); March 11, Simon Chauchard (University Carlos III); March 18, Vincent Jcquet (Namur); March 25, departmental postgrads; April 22, Eloise Harding (Southampton); April 29, Vittorio Merola (Durham); May 6, Konstantin Bogatyrev (London School of Economics).

Today the @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar welcomes Petra Schleiter who is Professor of Comparative Politics @politicsoxford.bsky.social and will present 'How to break populist parties’ appeal? An experimental evaluation of communication counter-strategies'! www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/petra...

The spring term seminar list for the department of politics and international relations at the University of Southampton. The weekly speakers every Wednesday (aside from holidays) from 13.00-14.30 between 25 February and 6 May are: Feb 25, Gizem Arikan (Trinity College Dublin); March 4, Petra Schleiter (Oxford); March 11, Simon Chauchard (University Carlos III); March 18, Vincent Jcquet (Namur); March 25, departmental postgrads; April 22, Eloise Harding (Southampton); April 29, Vittorio Merola (Durham); May 6, Konstantin Bogatyrev (London School of Economics).

Today we're excited to welcome @gizemarikan.bsky.social from @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social who is sharing work on 'Memorialization in civil conflicts and minority reactions'. gizemarikan.com

Do you work or teach on political trust, and need to get up to speed? Check out this new #openaccess collection edited by @danjdevine.bsky.social @mfair.bsky.social: 12 chapters covering causes and consequences of political trust www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o... #polisky #commsky #socsky #econsky

The spring term seminar list for the department of politics and international relations at the University of Southampton. The weekly speakers every Wednesday (aside from holidays) from 13.00-14.30 between 11 February and 6 May are: Feb 11, Alex McLaughlin (Exeter); Feb 18, departmental postgrads; Feb 25, Gizem Arikan (Trinity College Dublin); March 4, Petra Schleiter (Oxford); March 11, Simon Chauchard (University Carlos III); March 18, Vincent Jcquet (Namur); March 25, departmental postgrads; April 22, Eloise Harding (Southampton); April 29, Vittorio Merola (Durham); May 6, Konstantin Bogatyrev (London School of Economics).

Our spring seminar series continues today with Dr Alex McLaughlin, a Lecturer in Global Political Theory at Exeter, who is presenting on the timely topic of 'Climate Change, State Capture, and Authoritarianism'. experts.exeter.ac.uk/42077-alex-m...

The spring term seminar list for the department of politics and international relations at the University of Southampton. The weekly speakers every Wednesday (aside from holidays) from 13.00-14.30 between 4 February and 6 May are: Feb 4, Vicki Squire (Warwick); Feb 11, Alex McLaughlin (Exeter); Feb 18, departmental postgrads; Feb 25, Gizem Arikan (Trinity College Dublin); March 4, Petra Schleiter (Oxford); March 11, Simon Chauchard (University Carlos III); March 18, Vincent Jcquet (Namur); March 25, departmental postgrads; April 22, Eloise Harding (Southampton); April 29, Vittorio Merola (Durham); May 6, Konstantin Bogatyrev (London School of Economics).

Our spring seminar series convened by @jasonreifler.bsky.social is live from today! Today we're excited to welcome @vickisquire.bsky.social who is Professor of International Politics at Warwick, and presenting on 'Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship'.

Mackenzie Book Prize 2025-26 Shortlist Announced - Political Studies Association Thank you to all who nominated a book for this esteemed prize which celebrates the distinctive contribution these works have made to advancing Political Studies. From an impressive number of entries, ...

Two books by our colleagues are shortlisted for this year's @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Mackenzie Book Prize! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for 'Disability and Political Representation', and @drjennings.bsky.social for 'The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales'. www.psa.ac.uk/news/mackenz...

If you work on any aspect of trust and politics, you'll definitely want to check out this agenda-setting collection co-edited by our brilliant colleague @danjdevine.bsky.social. Plus, it's open access and free for all! #polisky #commsky #socsky #econsky

And a second piece with her team in @ejprjournal.bsky.social on gender and party youth wings. bsky.app/profile/prof.... Check them out!

Two new #polisky papers from our brilliant colleague @profannikawerner.bsky.social: first up in @bjpols.bsky.social, on how parties manage their core and peripherial policy areas to adapt while keeping on brand

Check out the new work on campaigns and gender by @emiliabelknap.bsky.social, one of our brilliant postdoctoral fellows! It's open access below.

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Today’s @sotonpolitics.bsky.social seminar will include these vegan birthday biscuit bars: dark chocolate, pecan, sea salt. #poliskybakes

A game of tariffs: is there demand for tariffs in Europe? In April 2025, the United States introduced sweeping tariffs on imports from the European Union and the United Kingdom, raising transatlantic tensions and prompting debate over Europe’s response. T...

Tariffs might be the word of 2025.

Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?

@grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no
@jeppjournal.bsky.social

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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...