FAO economists! The economics department UoS Faculty of Social Sciences (just along the corridor from Politics at Southampton) is hiring up to 10 positions across all ranks: Lecturer: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Associate. Prof: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Prof: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Join me in calling on Nigeria High Commission London to support the immediate release of Babatunde Oluajo and two others who have been abducted by the Nigerian Security Services. Babs was my Politics at Southampton Masters classmate socialistworld.net/2024/08/05/nig…

My statement on the current threat of violence in Southampton.

Our new paper about authenticity and political trust is out in Political Studies today! 🥳 In it, Will Jennings (I'm not here, see you at 🦋🧵 ), Gerry Stoker, Lawrence McKay, Dan Devine, Nick Clarke and I use conjoint experiments from 7 countries to explore the determinants of trust🧵 See: doi.org/10.1177/003232…

Very happy that the German, Belgian and Polish Science Foundations will fund our project Integrating Citizen Deliberation for Impact (i4i): i4i-project.com It will examine the variety of ways citizens assemblies connect to pol. systems and how this shapes their impacts

I'm over on BlueSky as well: bsky.app/profile/danjde… Please follow so I can finally move!

This week I say goodbye to Scotland. Excited to be (re)joining Politics at Southampton as Assistant Professor next week. Thank you to colleagues, family and friends who have supported my 400 mile commute and looking forward to joining so many brilliant new colleagues at Southampton.

"Our findings suggest a distrust in those with the power to enact change as well as stigma around accessing support". A new journal article, co-authored by Policy Institute researchers, explores the reality of the cost of living crisis for the public ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

💭 Do people show a particular preference for policies that pay off within, rather than beyond, their own lifetime? 📊 Using a conjoint experiment in 🇬🇧, Matthew Barnfield investigates policy discounting across & beyond the lifespan 🔓 #OA bit.ly/4e4y0oo

A nice research post here at Oxford offering up to £4.3m per year salary. For avoidance of doubt, this salary is unlikely at other institutions.

A surprisingly short journey to #epop2024 (and, perhaps *even more* excitingly, a weekend in Morecambe). If you're about, do say hi. I look like an AI-generated 32 year old university lecturer.

Fantastic start to #EPOP2024, first panel on ECR day on "trust, turnout and democratic dilemmas" with papers by Helen Bramah Edmund Kelly and Giacomo Melli 👏

Imagine putting on a service from Manchester to Southampton that's so overcrowded people are standing, no catering, no toilet paper... @crosscountryuk

We had eight PAIR staff presenting at this year's EPOP #EPOP2024, with work from 11 featured on the program 👏 Thanks to the organizers at The University of Manchester for all the work and we look forward to next year's University of Exeter !

Congrats to former student and Languages, Cultures & Linguistics, Uni Southampton lecturer Darren Paffey MP who's settling into his new role as an MP in Westminster. ITV Meridian has reported on his background, early life and how university helped him. 👇 brnw.ch/21wMHRP

200+ attendees, 40 panels, 2 roundtables, 1 Celine Dion masterpiece and 2 very happy organisers. Recovering from #epop2024, see you next year in Exeter #epop2025! Marta Cantijoch