Local government communication is seen as more honest and credible than that of the national government. This is according to our new report released today, ‘Public Perceptions of UK and Local Government Communication about COVID-19’. Read the report here. belongnetwork.co.uk/resources/publ…

I am incredibly grateful to have received this award, and delighted to be continuing my work at the Department of Sociology for my DPhil, supervised by @DrLARichards and Man-yee Kan @manyeekan.bsky.social!

We have a new working paper on gender backlash. Making use of a new shift-share instrument and Swiss panel data, we find that higher labour market participation of women leads to more gender conservative attitudes among men. They do not translate into far right support, however.

‘Gisèle Pelicot’s decision is astonishingly brave, not least because the culture she is condemning also produced the lawyers who have been questioning her and the journalists covering the case.’ Sophie Smith on patriarchy and the Pelicot trial: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

🚨 New paper out! 🚨 We use Eurobarometer data to explore how strongly people across the EU reject the “no means yes” rape myth. Gender gaps persist, but shrink with higher gender equality and “only yes means yes” laws. w/ Sara Möser (Universität Bern) 👉 doi.org/10.1177/237802…

Thanks Sociology at Oxford for the great summary of my new publication. Happy to share this work! For those interested, here’s the full open access article: link.springer.com/article/10.100…