Now out in British Educational Research Journal with Edda Sant & Jonas Thiel: Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy? In short, "no". bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be… BERA @ShefUniPolitics Department for Education BBC Education

Heading home from #PSA24 feeling hugely honoured to be this year's recipient of the Political Studies Association Richard Rose Prize 👇 I'm a big believer that academia is a collective endeavour, so this award goes as much to everyone who's supported my career so far. Thank you!

Getting stuck into some inspirational reading on this morning's nursery commute ❤

🚨New working paper: Here we experimentally demonstrate across 33 countries that civic education can mitigate the negative effects of partisan polarization by increasing the likelihood of voting for non-partisan, pro-democratic candidates. 1/ osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Marking what was one of the most fabulous research projects I've been part of, our - whole team! - publication le dby Rens Vliegenthart and Jade Vrielink is out today, looking at citizens attitudes to different forms of data-driven campaigning in 25 countries: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

🏆 Spotlight on our Academic Prize winners! This year's Richard Rose Prize was awarded to Dr James Weinberg (@ShefUniPolitics) for outstanding contributions to advancing knowledge in political studies. Many congratulations!! 👏👏 More: psa.ac.uk/psa/news/psa-c…

📢PUBLICATION ALERT🧵 Our new research in Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media maps the global landscape of political microtargeting across 95 countries during 113 elections. Simon Kruschinski▲@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social, Mads Hove, Tom Dobber, NHelberger is @[email protected], Claes de Vreese, and I analyze 2.5M FB & IG ads that ran from 2020 to 2022.

The first qu in tonight's #BBCDebate asked Keir Starmer & Rishi Sunak about how to rebuild trust in politics. Research I carried out with MPs and the public indicates 8 strategies, including more authentic comms and interactive leadership. OA here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Votes at 16 and decent citizenship education could create a politically aware generation bit.ly/4cEecY2

We're hiring a new Lecturer (Assistant Prof)! 👇 If you're interested in elections, parties, public opinion and you're skilled in quant methods, then this is the post for you🙂 Very happy to chat to anyone who's considering it. jobs.ac.uk/job/DIP144/lec…

I’m very happy that my short paper on the effects of candidate disability on voter support, based on conjoint experiments in UK + US, will be published in the Journal of Politics @[email protected]. It’s part of my project on stereotypes and voter attitudes towards disabled candidates. Key findings: (1/5)

Delighted to have this piece published in The Conversation about Never Trumpers and the assassination attempt. theconversation.com/us-election-20…

MPs are experimenting with a range of security measures in response to abuse and violence. In this new publication, Neil Matthews and I problematise the representative and democratic implications of these measures and sketch out a new research agenda: academic.oup.com/pa/article/doi…

Returning from AL to positive grant news from the Trans-Atlantic Platform 🥳This funding will support us (Prof Kate Dommett Elizabeth (not Liz) Dubois karolina koc michals Damian Guzek & myself) to study the potential of digital contact to enhance political trust. Watch this space! transatlanticplatform.com/podtrust/

My Queen Mary Politics and IR colleague Matthew Barnfield's piece on voters' time horizons seems even more relevant today in the light of the briefing we've heard this morning around Keir Starmer's short-term pain/long-term gain schtick! theconversation.com/evidence-tells… via The Conversation

Interested in political trust, politicians, digital politics and experiments? Come work with us on our three-year Trans-Atlantic Partnership grant 👇 jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT576/res…

Citizens’ engagement on politicians’ own social media shapes not just what politicians talk about—but also what they act on. 🤳🏻💥 We show how interacting with politicians' posts increases the likelihood of real legislative action by those same politicians. doi.org/10.1177/106591…

I'm advertising a fully funded PhD to work with me and Prof Kate Dommett on our PODTrust project. Interested in trust, politicians, and the opportunity to study within an international team spread across 4 countries? Check out the ad 👇 Happy to answer any qus jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU746/phd…