We'll be at Scottish Labour conference next Friday the 21st at 1730 for our Fringe event on voting behaviour with Michael Marra MSP and Libby Brooks 🌹📰 Ailsa Henderson Christopher J Carman and Fraser McMillan 🌐 will discuss findings from our 2024 general election panel - tea and shorties included!

Scholarship Alert for 2025! PhD students in the Global South, don’t miss this chance! We are offering a fee waiver to attend one of our intermediate or advanced methods courses this year, either in-person or online. Find out more & apply: bit.ly/3EJxHms #ESS2025 #PhD

⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS Scottish politics conference co-organised by the SES, Centre on Constitutional Change and hosted at P&IR Edinburgh 12-13 May 2025 We look forward to welcoming researchers working on anything and everything related to Scottish politics a year out from the 2026 election 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗳️

💻 NEW DATA The Scottish political landscape has evolved greatly in recent months and a lot has been said about support for Reform UK Scotland without much grounding in analysis. Fraser McMillan 🌐 and Ailsa Henderson took a very close look at the party's supporters on our blog - link ⬇️

Deadline for abstracts today!

Accurate #DepecheMode

Not one of Enid Blyton’s best…

📄NEW PAPER📄 Ever wondered content people actually pay *attention* to online? Our new research reveals that you likely pay attention to far more varied political content than your likes and shares suggest

Is it?

Strongly advise anyone into Scottish politics to go along for unmatched insight into the 2026 election (and to see whether, as I pleaded, all panellists are wearing one of these).

If you’re in or even anywhere near Glasgow right now, get yourself down to this. A crack squad of Scottish election specialists from Scottish Election Study 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗳️ will mark your cards for Holyrood 2026.

My message is clear: attend this lecture. I know I will. You know I will. And I know you will.

Our postdoc Eoghan Kelly has co-developed DevolvedElections, a seat projection tool for devolved elections 🤓🧮 You can select from some preset scenarios or plug in your own vote share numbers to generate precise estimates. More info on our blog ⬇️ scottishelections.ac.uk/2025/05/22/ann…

Essay Prize 2025 📝 🧑🏻‍🎓 Undergraduate and school pupil competitions 📆 Deadline 6th July Fantastic judging panel of Simeon Kerr, YouGov's Abigail Axe-Browne and Alan Convery! scottishelections.ac.uk/2025/06/09/ess…

In which Allison Pearson describes someone else as “shameless” and “gobby”.

In which Allison Pearson describes someone else as “shameless” and “gobby”.

Just out at Publius with Bailey Oates: academic.oup.com/publius/advanc… We consider public opinion on whether states should be allowed to secede from the U.S. Most people reject the idea. Opposition is tied to commitments to democratic principles + strength of national identity.

🇺🇸 New blog! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Christopher J Carman takes a closer look at our data on Trump support in Scotland ahead of the US President's visit. How popular is DJT? Are Reform UK supporters MAGA? And does the support of young men travel across the pond? Find out below! scottishelections.ac.uk/2025/07/18/tru…

🍦Big Scoop tracker update 📊 We've fully updated our handy page of time series public opinion measures, added new visualisations and made it much easier to find. And we've renamed it the SES Opinion Dashboard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Summary 🧵 scottishelections.ac.uk/dashboard/

Much political science is pretty plodding and predictable. Then every so often there are novel and interesting ideas. More than one of the latter is in this book. Read it. 🎭🖋️🪧 (And it will be no surprise to anyone who knows him that Joe Greenwood-Hau 🇲🇲🇦🇫🇺🇦 was a pleasure to supervise.)