Billions of 🇪🇺 money flow into regional development.
But do citizens trust the EU more in return?

🔬 Find out in this Electoral Studies article with Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu and Anne-Marie Jeannet.

❗Spoiler: EU 💶 regional funds do build trust in the 🇪🇺 , especially among working-class citizens.

Should the government 🏛️ fight economic inequality?
You probably have a strong take. But why do you believe that? 📌 Spoilers from our new Social Science Research paper with Giacomo Melli: it depends jointly on where you think you stand in society🪜 and how unequal your surroundings actually are!

How is political interest developing in higher education?

This afternoon our Yuxin Zhang presented new findings on 🇩🇪 (w/ @leoazzollini.bsky.social , M.Quaranta & @mtriventi.bsky.social ).

Our @leoazzollini.bsky.social just presented his contribution on unemployment scars across Europe (w/ @stefanischerer.bsky.social & P.Barbieri).

A joint effect of social origin and age might be out there!

The 2025 edition of RC28 has officially started! 🎉

Keep up with us for daily updates from our delegation!

#RC28
#Milan2025

Proud co-supervisor moment! If you care about how social stratification affects turnout in elections, check out this fresh solo article by the brilliant Giacomo Melli in RSSM! #SocSky

Out now in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility! Drawing on 19 waves of ISSP data (2002–2021), I explore how social class and subjective status influence electoral participation across 25 European democracies.

🚨I'm advertising for a PhD position (4 yrs) in quant. Sociology/Social Demography (life course, social ineq.) @tcdsociology.bsky.social!
📅 Deadline: April 21, 2025
📄 More info: www.tcd.ie/sociology/va...
🔄 Please share! #Sociology #Demography #AcademicChatter #PhDOpportunity #TrinityCollegeDublin

Our junior members are growing! ✨

Check out @beatricecaniglia.bsky.social (w/ @zamberlanna.bsky.social & P. Barbieri) paper on the gendered role of occupational characteristics for lifelong singlehood in 🇮🇹 !

Just did the proofs for this short methods paper that I really like!

Not everyday you get to 'solve' a problem identified 30 years ago in some of the most widely used statistical models in #sociology 👀 - and with two super awesome collaborators, what a blast 🥳

Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to share my new paper with Leo Azzollini @leoazzollini.bsky.social (@csisunitn.bsky.social) and Franco Bonomi Bezzo on healthcare provision and attitudes toward redistribution in the Journal of European Public Policy @jeppjournal.bsky.social

Great time at @sisec.bsky.social 2025 presenting new research made in @csisunitn.bsky.social on the differential effect of social origins on unemployment across the life course!

📢Calling all social science scholars from and/or researching Italy: applications for the 2025-26 Jemolo Fellowships are now open.
🗓️Deadline: 21 Feb 2025
ℹ️More info & applications: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...

Our School is hiring two Assistant Professors (Ad Astra Fellows): five-year tenure-track positions with an annual research budget of €5k, teaching reductions, and a fully-funded PhD researcher.

Environmental Politics: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
Global Governance: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

At @politicsoxford.bsky.social we are launching the Centre for Democratic Resilience. Building on our expertise, we do not only want to produce cutting-edge research but we also want to connect research to important stakeholders. Democracy is under threat. We want to work together to protect it.

📈Poverty today in many OECD countries is higher than in the 1980s - but what would it be without demographic 🏘️changes? Find out in this paper with Richard Breen and Brian Nolan, just out in the Journal of European Social Policy. Spoiler: possibly even higher!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Changing household structures, household employment, and poverty trends in rich countries
doi.org/10.1177/0958...
Paper in Journal of European Social Policy by @leoazzollini.bsky.social, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Emeritus Fellow Richard Breen and Senior Research Fellow Brian Nolan #NuffSky

Does the neighbourbood where parents grow up matter for their children's outcomes? I find it does. Very happy that the second chapter of my PhD thesis is now officially out at @bjsociology.bsky.social, exploring and discussing the enduring legacy of neighbourhood disadvantage.

Sociologists working on inequality:

Still time to apply for this 3yr+ postdoc position in beautiful Munich (no German required)

EN: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/5...
DE: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f...

Applications are 01/15, but let me know if you need another 1-2 days to put in your materials

La SISEC è su Bluesky! Benvenute e benvenuti: da ora, potrete trovare tutte le notizie inerenti alle attività SISEC anche su questo canale social! E intanto, ci vediamo a Pavia per il nostro convegno annuale👇🏻
sisec.it/convegni/

🚨Job Alert🚨

We are seeking to recruit not only 1, but 2⃣ tenure-track Assistant Professors in political science (Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union)

Description and application guidelines: sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

#AcademicJobs #PolSci

Reminder: From 1st Jan. 2025, the deposit of replication packages will be condition for publication in ESR!

Find out more at:

academic.oup.com/esr/pages/General_Instructions

Great spring school in a great city, free of charge!