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I have never wished for Graham Norton to replace sports commentators more #ClosingCeremony #Eurovision

Join our webinar on Thursday 5 September as the IfG launches its brand new Ministers Database for public use, holding information about all government ministers since 1979. With Dr Catherine Haddon, Philip Nye (same on BSky), Jessica C. Smith and Tim Durrant Register here: instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-mini…

This week I say goodbye to Scotland. Excited to be (re)joining Politics at Southampton as Assistant Professor next week. Thank you to colleagues, family and friends who have supported my 400 mile commute and looking forward to joining so many brilliant new colleagues at Southampton.

New on the blog! Modernization Without a Gender and Diversity Sensitivity Focus is not Modernization: An Agenda for the New Modernization Committee, by Sarah Childs, Marc Geddes, @merylkenny and Jessica C. Smith Read more: buff.ly/4d1a9EZ

Heading to #EPOP24? Make sure to come to our panel on Gender Gaps on Friday at 3:15pm. Hear all about gender gaps in women's survey responses, independence support, vote choices and perceptions of parties. See you there!

Standard 'travelling to EPOP' tweet. £120 train and no WiFi and no refreshments as "the shop door locked and we can't open it" BUT having fun selecting the great panels I want to go to! #epop24

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨 Political Studies Association Annual Conference 14-16 April 2025 We’re inviting submissions for our co-organised panel with Politics on the theme ‘Gender and the Elections of 2024’ ⏰Deadline: 1st October 2024 For further details: shorturl.at/IhHWo

A piece of advice we got in this small survey that I really liked was "it takes a community to build an academic". With that in mind I recommend joining PSA Women & Politics or GenElect Network (although I am biased as I convene both of these groups...)

Kicking off our panel Dr Emilia Y Belknap on gender gaps in support for independence

If only we'd had this data for the women in the discipline breakfast yesterday...

Beatriz Lasheras Mas Universität Wien @LouiseLuxton @UoMPolitics Dr Ceri Fowler Oxford Politics and IR To continue our papers on survey responses Dr Lotte Hargrave from @UoMPolitics presenting a paper on gender gaps in Don't Know responses to survey questions (with Dr. Hannah Bunting, Dr Ceri Fowler, Jessica C. Smith, Anna Sanders)

Beatriz Lasheras Mas Universität Wien @LouiseLuxton @UoMPolitics Dr Ceri Fowler Oxford Politics and IR Dr Lotte Hargrave Dr. Hannah Bunting Jessica C. Smith Anna Sanders Wrapping up our panel, Dr Ceri Fowler on gender and measuring liberal/authoritarian views with Maria Sobolewska 🇺🇦

New blog! Prof Sarah Childs @merylkenny Marc Geddes Jessica C. Smith 'make the procedural case that the new Modernisation Committee should formally commit to subject each & all of its future proposals to a gender and diversity sensitive test.' Read:bit.ly/3BcrLkc

Calling all gender and politics scholars.. 📢 Submit to PSA Women & Politics panels at PSA! Including our panel on Gender & the Elections of 2024 (co-sponsored by@JournalPolitics) 👇Details below👇 EPOP GenElect Network Politics & Gender

One that may be of interest to our members... Call for papers for panel on Gender and the 2024 Elections at the Political Studies Association Annual Conference

📢 Job alert: Postdoc 'Political Masculinities in the European Parliament.' Apply by 31 October if you have expertise and interest in masculinities, political representation, qualitative methods and the European Parliament. RT =💯🙏 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdo…

Excited to see my article 'Balancing Politics and Parenthood' in EJPR journal is out. In a UK study, I find that the public do not punish MPs for taking parental leave. In fact, for women there is some electoral advantage. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Very interesting study showing that actually making politics more family friendly is not - as some suggest a liability - but in fact an electoral advantage. The public want a parliament that is modernised. Its now upto parliament to respond.

⚖️ Balancing politics & parenthood Using conjoint experiments in the UK 🇬🇧, Jessica C. Smith finds that voters do not punish MPs that take parental leave. In fact, voters prefer women MPs who take leave after having children #OpenAccess 🔓 bit.ly/4ePMqcW