Great turnout last night at Edinburgh Uni for “Still a Model? What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from German Federalism” — a joint BGA & @ccc-research.bsky.social event. Thanks to @angusrobertson.bsky.social, Elke Heins, David Smith, and everyone who joined us! 🙌📸 #GermanFederalism #Edinburgh
Research-led teaching at @edinburghpir.bsky.social live in podcast form. Thanks @snellarthur.bsky.social for the chance to talk about several of my favourite topics!
Good to speak to #BBC_Radio Scotland this morning about #COP30 prospects and what the absence of a formal US delegation might mean. @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
It's not too late to register for our upcoming event with Angus Robertson on what we can and can't learn from German federalism.
More info here: edin.ac/46JYj2v
Pile of copies of book 'Climate Assemblies'. Text reads: Book Launch. Climate Assemblies. New Civic Institutions for a Climate-changed World. Oliver Escobar and Stephen Elstub. ‘Climate Assemblies’ brings together 25 authors to offer novel perspectives, critical insights and practical reflections based on original research about paradigmatic cases at local, national, transnational and global levels.
Book Launch
Friday 24th October
1pm-2.30pm
Online
Join us for the launch of
Climate Assemblies
New Civic Institutions for a Climate-changed World
Edited by Oliver Escobar and Stephen Elstub
Info and booking:
edin.ac/4nKszjT
🚨 Job Opportunity! 🚨 Applications are now open for a new 2.5-year postdoc at @edinburghpir.bsky.social to examine how parliaments gather, analyse and use different types of knowledge - see the full job listing here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
This is my latest piece in The Loop @ecpr.bsky.social based on recent fieldwork in Argentina 🇦🇷. Thank you to all the officials and informants who shared their insights with me.
@edinburghpir.bsky.social
Delighted to see this excellent and very timely piece by my PhD student Sarah Cheung now published. @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to see our amazing @edinburghpir.bsky.social academics contributing to key debates at this year’s Festival of Politics! 🗣️📢
festivalofpolitics.scot
Congrats to all @uoe-sps.bsky.social summer grads! 🎓 Great to see @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff celebrating your achievements. Well done, students! 👏
Wonderful Politics & IR @edinburghpir.bsky.social staff presence at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social summer graduation. Congrats to our fab students! @uoe-sps.bsky.social
📢We first hear from:
- Prof Will Jessett CBE (SC Strategy)
- Prof Paul Rogers (Emeritus, @uniofbradford.bsky.social)
- Dr Claire Duncanson (@edinburghpir.bsky.social)
🍃Both Claire and Paul commented on the lack of acknowledgement of climate change in the new National Security Strategy.
🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲!
Making sense of 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 – insights from an 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
🔓 Read the new #openaccess article by Eva-Maria Trüdinger, Achim Hildebrandt, Simon Stocker, @ajazajilirjana.bsky.social & @pbundi.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1359...
#federalism #democracy
👏 A brilliant final contribution from @niceonecombo.bsky.social — this collection of blog posts from the political behaviour course is full of sharp, thoughtful insights. Well worth exploring!
Thank you for everything — you'll be greatly missed! 💛
In response to the new UK National Security Strategy and SDR, here's my analysis of changing threat topics in UK national security and defence documents since 1998.
@uoe-sps.bsky.social @scga.bsky.social @rethinkingsecurity.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org @rusi.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social
Thrilled to have received the "honourable mention" (runner up place) from the Journalism Studies division of #ICA2025, together with longstanding coauthors @martinscott2010.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social. Our hearty congratulations to the overall winner @ruthmoon.bsky.social!
I’m thinking that my course next semester on authoritarianism (might need a week on authoritarianism in books and on film?! (Autocracy and Resistence in the 21st Century! @edinburghpir.bsky.social )
@uoe-cahss.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edincollegeofart.bsky.social @edcdcs.bsky.social @stis-uoe.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoesocialwork.bsky.social #RefugeeWeek
@alyssamartin.bsky.social joins us from @edinburghpir.bsky.social to discuss her observations from the Scottish Carers Parliament
Essay Prize 2025 📝
🧑🏻🎓 Undergraduate and school pupil competitions
📆 Deadline 6th July
Fantastic judging panel of @simeonkerr.bsky.social, @yougov.co.uk's Abigail Axe-Browne and @edinburghpir.bsky.social's own Alan Convery!
scottishelections.ac.uk/2025/06/09/e...
Really looking fw to these events - pop round if you're in Helsinki and interested in academic publishing, existentialism, or the intellectual and cultural underpinnings of the radical right @edinburghpir.bsky.social @risjnl.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @gnobisa.bsky.social
A quick reminder that the last seminar in our series for this term will be happening online tomorrow 💫
Join us to hear about the QUALREP project from PIs @profrosiecamp.bsky.social and @profsarahchilds.bsky.social
We hope you can join us!
@edinburghpir.bsky.social
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“We didn’t really get to hear what [English nationalism] is in simple language, but we were left in no doubt about what it is not – European.” Important read 👇 (includes h/t to @ailsahenderson.bsky.social’s research, ping @edinburghpir.bsky.social)
A @uoe-sps.bsky.social, Staff Pride, BAME Network, & Queer.ED collab! Curtis Chin talks about growing up/ coming out as gay in a working-class immigrant community and first gen University student. ☕️🍵🍪
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everything...
@edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social
NEW ✨ How gender, labour and tech intersect in Bangalore’s startup culture 👩🏾💻🇮🇳
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India by @hgupta.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
#BookReview by @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social
💫QUALREP Gender and Politics Seminar💫
We're putting our own PIs in the hot seat for the final seminar this term - @profrosiecamp.bsky.social & @profsarahchilds.bsky.social!
Event details:
📆 Wed 28 May
⏰3-4pm GMT
📍Online - register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bfd7b0...
www.qualrep.org
Huge congratulations to our PIR Superheroes! 👏🎉
Thank you Nicholas Hopton for visiting @uoe-sps.bsky.social - both events were packed and the audience highly engaged! Thanks to Dr Nida Alahmad and Dr Lucy Abbott for expertly chairing the discussions. Grateful to the Departments of African Studies and Sociology for co-sponsoring the events.
My review of Judith Butler's latest book is out in Contemporary Sociology!
"Who's Afraid of Gender" is a must read for all, especially those on the fence about the attacks on trans folks/allies.
@edinburghpir.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
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