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Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · Aug 28

Mary Daly from @dspi-oxford.bsky.social presenting key insights from the @reusilience.bsky.social book “Families, Welfare States and Resilience” at #ESPAnet

www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...

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Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · Jul 18

We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social
Details:
✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST
✳️Informal enquiries: [email protected]
✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j...
@lexnetwork.bsky.social

Gender and Justice – Call for Book Editor – LEX Research Network

www.lexnetwork.org

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · May 17

The thought occurred reading this by @jdportes.bsky.social that no country where ‘high-skilled’ and ‘high-earning’ are automatically lumped together in political jargon will ever know how to build a happy society by caring adequately for the young or elderly.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s one slight issue with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes

The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes

www.theguardian.com

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · May 14

The UK has dropped massively in both ILGA and TGEU's rankings, which have been published today. This means a material decrease in rights.

This isn't just shameful on the international stage - it means needless misery for so many LGBTQ+ people in this country.

goodlawproject.org/uk-plummets-...

UK plummets down rankings for LGBTQ+ rights

Last month’s Supreme Court ruling has seen the UK fall six places to 22nd. It’s time to fight back

goodlawproject.org

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · May 12

For a country with a population as old as the UK’s, this is the national equivalent of taking a hammer and swinging it right at your own knee

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · May 11

UK to end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown

https://www.ft.com/content/f844df48-09a3-47bf-b467-a2cb5bc9a307

UK to end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown

Employers’ ability to recruit staff from overseas for lower-skilled jobs will be restricted

www.ft.com

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social · May 13

I’ll take the cutting migration idea seriously the day a politician actually outlines a serious budgeted plan for training British-born workers for the skills we’re short of, and housing them in the places where they’re needed. Until then it’s just the worst kind of blame-shifting propaganda

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · May 12

A party that does not recognize this has given up on the basic principles of social democracy

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · May 12

a society where "bad immigrants" are demonised is a society where no immigrant can truly feel welcome, because aren't we all just one wrong turn or accident away from being unemployed? on disability benefits? unable to care for our children without state help? just no such thing as a safe immigrant

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · May 2

Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries.
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration

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Mona Lena Krook @mlkrook.bsky.social · Apr 7

I am excited to share the latest issue of Politics & Gender, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the journal!

Articles reflect on contributions of P&G to political science and our research community.

All articles are free to read until the next issue.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Apr 8

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢

@drashleec.bsky.social & @drorlysiow.bsky.social‬ examine how intersectionality has been used within P&G and outline ways that future contributions can embrace the original Black feminist intentions of the concept.

🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟

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Research article "From Inclusion to Transformation: Politics & Gender as a Critical Actor for Intersectional Political Science" by Ashlee Christoffersen & Orly Siow.
Abstract begins: The popularization of intersectionality within political science, feminist scholarship, and activism has constituted nothing less than a paradigm shift (Hancock 2007a). Politics & Gender has been a critical actor in enabling change within our discipline. However, this development has been hard won and there remains much to be done to operationalize intersectionality in line with Black feminist theory, and to center women of color and other intersectionally marginalized groups within scholarship. This article both traces the evolution of intersectional approaches within Politics & Gender over two decades and articulates pathways for future gender and politics research which aims to employ intersectionality.

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Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · Apr 17

I am incredibly honored that my paper "Shaping institutional change in skill formation", which is my first-ever PhD project, has received the @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy& Welfare Best Paper Prize and has been published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shaping institutional change in skill formation: the role of background ideas in growth strategies

States are taking on an increasingly prominent role in shaping policy across advanced capitalist democracies. This paper conducts a comparative study of state intervention in skill formation betwee...

www.tandfonline.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Mar 12

Incredibly weak argument by the FT.

Asking an austerity-traumatized, increasingly aging society to contribute to the expenses of geopolitical security with social spending cuts makes it the opposite of safer.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Mar 12

Highly paid FT editors advise UK govt to cut welfare spending; hurt the disabled, sick. poor, old.

Silence on redistribution of wealth; higher wages, reducing corporate welfare, ending tax perks of the rich,

It is class war and working class is losing it.
archive.ph/eJcv3

How to cut Britain’s rising welfare bill

Reforms rather than quick fixes will save more money in the long term

www.ft.com

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The Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) @sofi.su.se · Mar 11

This Thursday, SOFI researcher @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social will participate in a parallel event to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, in New York (CSW). At this NGO-led conference, he will present his research on the challenges faced by single mothers worldwide. #CSW69

SINGLE SUPERMOMS
LEAVE NO SINGLE MOTHER BEHIND

Single mothers did not receive particular attention in the Beijing Declaration. Over the last 30 years their situation has not fundamentally changed, and many of them struggle to afford food and housing to this day, in part because they are single mothers.

Help us ensure that single mothers are not forgotten by international policy once again, and improve their situation over the next 30 years.

SPEAKERS
ISRA LEE: FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF SINGLE SUPERMOM
RENSE NIEUWENHUIS: RESEARCHER AND POLICY-EXPERT
MARIA STERN: EX-POLITICIAN AND FOUNDER OF THANKS DAY

MODERATED BY
JACQUELINE LEDUC: UN REPRESENTATIVE OF MAKE MOTHERS MATTER

TOGETHER WE STAND FOR GENDER JUSTICE FOR #100MILLION SINGLE MOMS AND THEIR CHILDREN!

(Logos at the bottom include: Stockholm University, Single SuperMom, rEUsilience, Make Mothers Matter, and Thanks Day - Whole Day for Single Parent Families & Friends.)

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South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · Mar 10

🥁 New Article Collection! 📚
#Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe

1⃣2⃣ #FreeAccess Articles

🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, Nicolò Conti & @bonniefield.bsky.social

Read and download here ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...

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Gender & Politics | Genere & Politica @genere-politica.bsky.social · Mar 11

📣Call for panel alert 📣

Our section on "gender, sexuality and intersectionality in politics" is seeking panels!! Join us in Naples for the @sisp annual conference, 04-06 September 2025 🤩

info 👉 www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...

@alavizzari.bsky.social @francescafeo.bsky.social #gendersky

Conference 2025 – SISP

www.sisp.it

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Liza Mügge @lizamugge.bsky.social · Mar 4

📢 PhD vacancy: Political Masculinities and Sexuality in European Parliaments. The position is part of my NWO-VICI 'Political Masculinities in Europe.' Please, share with potentially interested candidates in masculinities, sexuality and representative politics. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position Political Masculinities and Sexuality in European Parliaments

The Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam is hiring a PhD-student in a research project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO-VICI), titled ‘Political Masculinities in Eur...

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Simone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social · Mar 3

Join us for a guest lecture by Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social on Authoritarian Feminism, the Broligarchy & Left Feminist Alternatives! This Thursday, hosted by the Gender & Sexuality Research Cluster @camsociology.bsky.social

📆 6 March, 5-6pm
📍Seminar Room, Department of Sociology, Cambridge

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Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social · Feb 25

Exciting opportunity to join the @changingrealities.bsky.social team at a time when the work we do together has never mattered more. Please do share widely

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Jobs - The University of York

jobs.york.ac.uk

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · Feb 23

Disability benefits have become a more important source of income for low-to-middle income households.

Read Money, money, money today to learn more about the shifting mix of income sources for poorer households over the last 30 years ⤵️ https://buff.ly/4gE0beF

Chart showing Total disability benefits as a proportion of benefit income and gross household income for non-pensioner low-to-middle income households: GB/UK

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Feb 22

"When it came to personal harassment, there was a clear gender dimension."

The fact that sexism remains widespread in academia is itself very disturbing but that this fact is not seen and treated as a big problem within academia (leadership) is infuriating.

Two in five scientists in our survey reported harassment and intimidation. Often, the perpetrators are inside the institution

Science doesn’t occur in a vacuum – politics, harassment and intimidation can hamstring progress.

theconversation.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jan 30

Be part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Climate Vulnerability team 🚀

I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p...

⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰

Job Details

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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · Jan 29

"When and why do anti-gender movements fail?" 🏳️‍🌈✊

Bringing together evidence from four countries, this paper compares cases of failed & successful referenda on same-sex marriage and related rights to explain why they fail.

CHECK IT OUT:

When and why do anti-gender movements fail?

Few areas of gender politics have received as much scholarly attention in recent years as its antithesis, the so-called ‘anti-gender politics’. A common denominator of existing studies of anti-gender…

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · Jan 27

We at @worldpolitics.bsky.social mourn the loss of brilliant scholar and editorial board member, Mala Htun. Read about her career and commitment to her students and university here www.abqjournal.com/news/article...

'A smart, talented, creative thinker:' UNM political science professor dies

Mala Htun, an author who taught at the University of New Mexico for over a decade, died Friday after living with cancer the last few years.

www.abqjournal.com

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · Jan 26

📢 We’re putting together the very first standalone @ecpr.bsky.social conference for the thriving @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Extremism & Democracy Standing Group! The call for panels & papers is now open. Join us! 🤩

European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Jan 24

📯 Introducing a ✨ NEW conference ✨ for researchers specialising in extremism, democracy, and populism

🥇 Inaugural Conference of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social
🕰️ New and Old Challenges of #Populism and #Radicalism
💂‍♂️ Hosted by @qmul.ac.uk
📅 9–10 June 2025
✍️ Submit your Panel or Paper by 3 March

Inaugural Conference of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, Queen Mary University of London, 9 – 10 June 2025

New and Old Challenges of Populism and Radicalism

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Jan 26

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf

drive.google.com

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