In our #Election24 blog ✍️, @profcatdurose, @Sarah Ayres3, John Boswell, Professor Paul Cairney, @ian_c_elliott, Professor Matthew Flinders (The University of Sheffield), Professor Steve Martin (Wales Centre for Public Policy) & @lizmancuni discuss the concept of Positive Public Policy. Read ➡️ acss.org.uk/positive-publi…

Join us to share, hear and learn about doing participatory research and the university environments needed to do it well! Half-day workshop on 27 June, open to researchers and professional services. Travel funding available. Find out more and register: tinyurl.com/45t5sksw

Inspiring morning with visiting one of our Heseltine Institute Fellows, Mark Swift and his colleagues Wellbeing Enterprises CIC and learning more about their person-centred approach to wellbeing, commitment to reflective practice and leading with kindness. I took away important reminders on: 🧵

Enjoyed contributing alongside @lixindex Liz Richardson and Ramia Mazé to the Design for Society podcast talking about our recent report, 'Design and Policy' (link below). Hopefully a primer for anyone interested in design for policy. Have a listen here: tinyurl.com/4x7dmmha

Fully funded PhD - participatory research & behavioural insights for prevention of youth homelessness. Apply by 17th July 2024. Short application window please share! Policy Interventions & Routes Out Of Homelessness For Young People Aged 16-25 Years Old FindAPhD.com

NEW: The 2024 Parliament is likely to have a record-breaking number of women MPs Analysis of Survation's latest MRP by Dr Ceri Fowler and @chrishanretty indicates that the proportion of women in Parliament will increase by around 5% Read more: survation.com/the-2024-parli…

Hyper active ministers, centralism & short-termism key sins of Westminster's politics. Myself Patrick Diamond Jack Newman (On Bluesky: jacknewman.bsky.social) Anna Sanders @AndyWWestwood explain why in new BJPIR article from our The Productivity Institute @UoMPolitics project journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

@CIPFA @ian_c_elliott Karin Bottom Dr Russ Glennon 🇺🇦 Centre for Public Policy INLOGOV UniBirmingham News Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Ulster University "There's a lot of potential here for something really positive to happen if there is the political will and the leadership to make it happen" — @ian_c_elliott For a deeper dive into the research, check out this great piece by Tevye Markson for Civil Service World ⬇️ spr.ly/6019gelC7

Nifty Fox Creative have provided visual minutes for our #CoproFutures workshop to facilitate more and better co-produced research. Keep a 👀 for the call for evidence in Autumn

Led by Prof Beth Perry Liz Richardson Catherine Durose & funded via Research England Participatory Research pots University of Liverpool The University of Manchester & The University of Sheffield the sector-wide inquiry aims to identify barriers to co-produced research within HEIs - and propose actionable solutions. Watch this space!

🏙️ With Starmer meeting the English metro mayors, English devolution is in the spotlight. Catch up now on @profcatdurose and @vivienlowndes recent piece on why English devolution needs a reset rather than a top-down structural fix 👇 ukandeu.ac.uk/english-devolu…

Check out our timely @politicalquarterly.bsky.social piece arguing for a strategic, balanced and relational approach to reforming UK central government. Excellent to work with Matt Flinders, Steve Martin Sarah Ayres John Boswell @ian_c_elliott Liz Richardson Professor Paul Cairney onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

I have just spent two days in Birmingham with my esteemed colleagues exploring how to promote ‘positive public policy’. Superb intellectual brains, hard working and super collegiate. Could this be the perfect collaboration? Think so!

You’re coming to Manchester 💜 Congratulations to all those who will be joining us at the School of Social Sciences in September! Leave us a comment if you’re joining us and what you’re most looking forward to 🎉 We can’t wait to see you all on campus soon 💜

Can Labour overcome the problems with British policymaking? Drawing on a recent article, Catherine Durose, John Boswell, Professor Paul Cairney & colleagues suggest that while policy analysis tends to focus on dysfunction, a more positive perspective is possible. 🔗ukandeu.ac.uk/can-labour-ove…

Congratulations to Silviya Nitsova, winner of the 2024 Beth Holmgren Graduate Student Essay Prize for her essay, “Oligarchic Networks of Influence and Legislatures in Developing Democracies: Evidence from Ukraine” (UNC at Chapel Hill) 2024 prize winners: buff.ly/3BOPZ49

Global Success🏆 Manchester Sociology & Politics departments ranked top 50 in the ShanghaiRanking World Universities Subject Rankings for 2024 🌍 Sociology: 11th worldwide 🌐 Political Sciences: 48th worldwide Read all about the achievement here: [manchester.ac.uk/about/news/soc…]

Permanent lectureship in GPE at Uni of Manchester jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

I can finally tell people - I have a new job as a Lecturer in Environmental Politics at the University of Manchester, starting later this year. It's permanent and I'm still struggling to believe it's happening. Such good people in the department, and the dream job title. Unreal.