We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 4th European PolMeth meeting, co-organised by the London School of Economics and University of Essex. The meeting will be held 7-8 April 2025 at the LSE. Please submit at polmeth.eu see you in London! @nosnibor_mot

We had a full house at yesterday’s event “Prospects for Peace and Security in the Middle East.” Thanks to our fantastic group of participants, Faten Ghosn, Prabin Bahadur Khadka, Reed Wood, and Roi Litvak-Zur, and to everyone who attended!

But can he do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke? [Probably, yes.]

Starting our weekly Africa Special Interest Group morning coffee University of Essex. Lots of good conversations and good coffee. Nothing like meeting in person (sorry, zoomers). Thanks to my co-conspirator @itsthegibson for co-hosting.

Dustin, Nikhar and I have a conditionally accepted paper at International Organization we'd love you to know about! Some notes and results from the paper, which is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Paper is abt where the public stands -and where it could stand- on climate finance transfers.🧵

Congratulations to Professor Federica Genovese, St Antony’s Governing Body Fellow, who has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. Read more about the research she will conduct as the recipient of this prestigious prize: sant.ox.ac.uk/news/professor… Federica Genovese The Leverhulme Trust

Uni of Reading Politics and IR Department Federica Genovese Queen Mary Politics and IR @Pavithra_Suri Department of Politics and International Relations

Congratulations to our colleagues, Han Dorussen and Prabin Bahadur Khadka, who held a workshop on local perceptions of peacekeeping missions at the International Peace Support Training Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. Read about their experience here 👉bit.ly/4eKpoE4

Delighted - and humbled! - to receive the Philip Leverhulme Prize! It takes a village, a lot of effort, many rejections, and a nontrivial pinch of luck to be here! Thanks to mentors, colleagues, friends, and floriangkern who always pushes me to be my best me at work and in life

🚨 NEWS We are thrilled to announce the recipients of this year's Diverse Voices PhD Student Programme. Six outstanding scholars will benefit from this initiative aimed at supporting historically marginalised PhD students. Find out more: psa.ac.uk/psa/news/diver…

Proud of my PhD student Eden Government @ Essex who was selected as one of the Political Studies Association Diverse Voices Scholars. Eden works on British African political behaviour in the UK. Congrats also to the other scholars!

Over 130 Sudanese women committed mass suicide yesterday to avoid being raped by UAE backed RSF militia…

📚 The BIEA's invites you to join our Annual Lecture on Authoritarian Sanctuaries: Refugee Politics in East Africa and learn how authoritarian regimes impact refugee rights today. 🔗 Register:biea.ac.uk/events/biea-an… #RefugeePolitics #EastAfrica #BIEAaLecture #BIEAaEvents

British academia?

Very good paper discussing the challenges of open data sharing for qualitative researchers and considering  the question of whether secondary analysis of qualitative data is acceptable.

📢🚨 Join us tomorrow (12 November) at 1:30pm for this discussion on the implications of the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election. We have a great lineup: Dr. Ryan Bakker (Ryan Bakker), Professors Faten Ghosn and Reed Wood, and Professor Emeritus Paul Whiteley.

Today, Professor @TashLindstaedt of Government @ Essex joined the BBC Breakfast team to discuss what Donald Trump's second term might look like. You can read the latest The Conversation article about Trump’s appointments by Professor Lindstaedt here: brnw.ch/21wOFIb

📢 Join floriangkern and Chris Arnold as they present "Exploring the re-analysis and recycling of qualitative data with multimodal machine learning" at our next Seminar Series. 📅 Friday 13 December at 2pm Register now 👉eventbrite.co.uk/e/department-o…

I spoke with Al Jazeera English about how Syrian group HTS (which just defeated Assad) ended up on a lot of "terrorist" lists, and how it could be removed. University of Essex Government @ Essex