We are the @PolStudiesAssoc Women & Politics Specialist Group, a resource for researchers working on gender & for women and non-binary people in the discipline.

United Kingdom
Joined January 2014
🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED🚨 We've extended the deadline to apply for our 2-day Mid-Career Researcher Mentoring Scheme sponsored by @PolStudiesAssoc by 1 week! We invite all women MCR members of @PolStudiesAssoc who are past their first promotion New deadline: Mon 2 Dec '24 Details👇
📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS📢 We're hosting a 2-day Mid-Career Researcher Mentoring Programme (23-24th Jan '25) for women in academia following a research track, sponsored by @PolStudiesAssoc Location: PSA Offices, London More details: shorturl.at/AqB0x Deadline: 25 Nov 2024
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It's finally here... Euro 2016 as recounted by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿's female fans Stories of tournament firsts, motherhood, female protagonism & the coming of Wales as a ⚽️ nation Huge thanks to all who supported & contributed to this oral history project😊 youtube.com/watch?v=XQBZ9G7N…
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🤝 At the core of PSA’s activities is a profound respect and value for every individual, regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, language, beliefs, or other characteristics 📝 Read our latest blog to see how we are championing human rights through #EDI💪 psa.ac.uk/psa/news/psa-champ…
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#FirstView from @PoliticsGenderJ - Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK - cup.org/3ZPsJNj - @NeemaBegum, Michael Bankole, @ShardiaBPalmer, @DanGodshaw & @RimaSaini3105
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@Politics_Oxford alumnae @cerifowler (BA PPE, 2011) and @RosieShorrocks (BA PPE, 2008) are set to co-host a conference later this month looking at the issue of gender and elections: ow.ly/1iOP50UkXtt
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📗 At the launch of Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies" edited by @JenniferACooke and @Line_Nyhagen! Honored to have my chapter "Conducting survey research while a feminist: Taking intersectional and decolonial approaches" as a part of it. ☺️ routledge.com/Intersectional…
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After high demand we’re now delivering our panel on addressing GBV in Scotland hybrid. Register here for your in-person or online tickets: edin.ac/40EfpMu Organised by @UoE_GENDER_ED and the Gender Politics Research Group @EdinburghPIR
We are delighted to announce that you can now join us virtually for '16 Days of Activism: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Scotland' on Monday 2 Dec, 2pm. Presented by the Gender Politics Research Group and @EdinburghPIR Register here: edin.ac/40EfpMu
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For our next event of #SotonParliamentWeek, we're pleased to have @ProfLizJEvans and @Jess_Smith1534 providing an active and participatory workshop on "Diversity in Parliament". Students will be devising reforms and sending them on to @PolStudiesAssoc @sotonpolitics #UKPW
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📣Announcement📣 Politics & Gender Conference 2025 - a conference celebrating 20 years of @PoliticsGenderJ for scholars working on all aspects of women, gender, & politics. Find out more here - cup.org/4eEG6nA 📅 Rutgers University, May 28-29, 2025
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🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🚨 Interested in understanding the macro & micro-level components of the gender gap? Maria Grasso (@QMUL) & Marco Giugni provide the insights in their new paper "Gendered opportunities across modes of political participation" 📖➡️ doi.org/10.1332/25151088Y202…
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The elections for four new Steering Committee Members @ECPR_Gender is now live, don't forget to cast your vote!!! With 13 stellar candidates to choose from, it will be a difficult choice..
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📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS📢 We're hosting a 2-day Mid-Career Researcher Mentoring Programme (23-24th Jan '25) for women in academia following a research track, sponsored by @PolStudiesAssoc Location: PSA Offices, London More details: shorturl.at/AqB0x Deadline: 25 Nov 2024
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To apply, please send 1 page stating: why you are considered MCR, why you would like to take part in the programme & a statement that you commit to attending all sessions to Jess Smith ([email protected]) and Sofia Collignon ([email protected]) Deadline: 25 Nov 2024
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10 participants will be selected to attend both general and specialised sessions. A bursary for travel and accommodation of £140 will be provided for each participant.
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Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British GE Rosie Campbell @cerifowler @AnnaKSanders @RosieShorrocks assess speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women swung the result for Labour onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #Gendergap #votingbehaviour #GE2024
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"Fighting COVID-19 like a war: the role of hegemonic masculinity in Taiwan’s responses to the pandemic" is out in @IFJPglobal! It started in 2020 when we were isolating. Writing it helped me stay grounded. Thrilled that I get to share it with y'all now. ☺️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Why is it important to examine gendered differences in constitutional attitudes & voting behaviour? 🗳️What were the gendered patterns in voting behaviour during Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum?🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿My recent blog for @UoE_GENDER_ED answers these questions below👇have a read!
📚Looking for weekend reading? May we recommend @EmiliaBelknap reflecting on a historic 10 years since Scotland voted against independence and asking "which women and men differ in their constitutional attitudes, to what extent, and why" - edin.ac/3UJVqYX @ECPR_Gender
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Two post-doc offers in a fascinating ERC project on men, MENSREP, led by @RainbowMurray (@QMUL) who will be answering how men are represented and by whom. Quantitative political science: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-… With Norwegian: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-…
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