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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

1/ 🚨 Our intro to the Special Section on #FeministForeignPolicy is out! Co-authored w/ @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social ky.social in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social: "The Where, What & Who of Feminist Foreign Policy"
📖 #OpenAccess
🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Sheffield looking exceptionally lovely today. I was speaking at the Off the Shelf Festival of Words. Incredibly well organised and well attended. I can heartily recommend this Octoberfest to writers and readers alike.

Guidelines for Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School Guidelines for Writing Personal Statements for Graduate School For PhDs in Social Sciences, and specifically sociology* Each question is about 1 paragraph response 3-4 sentences. This should be abo...

Friends, I couldn't retrieve my guidelines for writing a personal statement for applicants to PhDs, specifically in sociology (though I've been told this is also applicable to other social sciences) so I made a new doc. Hope it's helpful for folks applying!

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📚 The ongoing #war in #Sudan and its consequences for the civilian population are a recurring topic of discussion within the ABI team and a subject of numerous publications.

We therefore recommend:

Beyond the Spectrum is a three-year UK-wide creative writing programme for Autistic people, led by professional Autistic writers. The programme takes the form of in-person and online creative writing groups, where participants write together, learn and support each other. The programme is open to both Autistic adults and young people, who take part in writing workshops, events, festivals and masterclasses. By taking part, participants gain confidence in their experience of autism and writing skills, build a community and have fun! Our Beyond the Spectrum groups are completely free to join.

Okay, fantastic opportunity here!

#BeyondTheSpectrum is a free creative writing project run by and for autistic people, but open to any neurodivergent person who thinks it's right for them.

They currently have three FREE workshops and groups running for adults in #Lincolnshire

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Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu.
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Do you have a lot of annoying admin tasks or household chores you need to accomplish, but never seem to find the time for? Then may I suggest: setting aside a day to do nothing but write, you will be amazed at how many such tasks you can accomplish.

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Opportunity beckons: the anti-gender movement at the European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is commonly viewed as the most progressive institution of the European Union (EU), given its historic promotion of gender equality and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans...

✨📣 Very happy that our article with @martijnmos.bsky.social "Opportunity beckons: the anti-gender movement at the European Parliament" is out @ifjpglobal.bsky.social. You can find it open access here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NNB93...

📢 CfP alert! Our section “Bridging Boundaries: The State of the Art in Empirical Gender and Politics Research” at #ECPG26 is now open for submissions!

@dariusribbe.bsky.social and I are super excited to chair this section! More info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
@ecprgender.bsky.social

Something academics and researchers can do to politically contribute, if not already, is create more political ed in the form of lectures, like in a class. Cuz a lot of the educational videos available to the public have bad politics or misinformation. And the good political stuff is often a panel.

You can't buy hope, but you can buy a new notebook and that's basically the same thing

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

We need a return to analog culture: handwritten letters, seeing films in the cinema, reading books, in-person visits, time in the outdoors. We weren't meant to spend our whole lives online. The joys of tangible living are something no one can take from you.

If you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you are a marvel. If you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and solace of a book, that is a rare gift and I’m very glad to know you.

Swedish Defence University advertises two postdoc positions focused on narrative geopolitics, or how emotional and widely circulated narratives shape international security, great power relations & geostrategic rivalry.

fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline: 31 Aug

Research article "Claiming Historical Responsibility? The Persistence of Coloniality in German Feminist Foreign Policy" by Karoline Färber & Madita Standke-Erdmann. Abstract begins: Recently, former colonial powers in the Global North have begun addressing their colonial pasts through their foreign policies. Some of these states pursue a feminist foreign policy (FFP). However, to date, only one FFP makes explicit mention of colonial legacies: that of Germany, adopted in 2021. How does German FFP discourse address this and what political work does this do? Contributing to critiques of coloniality in FFP, we analyze the discursive representation of Germany’s colonial past in foreign policy texts since 2021. Drawing on the socio-critical concepts theater of reconciliation by Max Czollek and remembrance superiority by Mohamed Amjahid, we find that the discourse powerfully establishes gendered notions of caring, responsible, and reflexive German statehood.

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

For our upcoming issue on #feministforeignpolicy, @karolinefaerber.bsky.social & @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social analyze how Germany 🇩🇪 represents, negotiates and reproduces its colonial past in their FFP.

polisky gendersky

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#BISA2025 keynote: Professor Roland Bleiker - Seeing and sensing world politics YouTube video by MyBISA

Here a video of my keynote at the recent 50th Anniversary #BISA2025 conference in Belfast. I am more writer than speaker, so this was a challenge. But I am grateful for the invitation and glad I did it for - and with - Emma Hutchison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWg...

Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights? The long read: Given his career as a human rights barrister, it was hoped Keir Starmer would be the PM to restore the UK’s commitment to international law. The reality tells a different story

Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Do they not...use a VPN for doing their job, working between their constituency and Westminster? Because if not I have concerns

Negotiating Masculinities and Marginality: Gender, Power, and Agency in Kashmir and Assam This paper is a review essay discussing two seminal works – Contesting Masculinities and Women's Agency in Kashmir by Amya Agarwal and Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculini...

Just popped in here to say thanks for a close reading of my book and this kind review essay written by three independent researchers based in Kashmir.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Feminist foreign policies talk equality, but local feminist peacebuilders still face donor scepticism, unstable funding & political pushback.

Without structural change, FFPs risk perpetuating the problems they claim to solve.

📝 Our new piece in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Hierarchies of Violence, Victimhood, and Remedy in the Pursuit of Women’s Rights After War Abstract. Recent postwar recovery efforts have paved the way for reforms that advance women's participation in politics, inclusion in the economy, and acce

🚨New Article🚨

“Hierarchies of Violence, Victimhood, and Remedy in the Pursuit of Women’s Rights After War” by Marie Berry, Milli Lake, Sinduja Raja, & Soraya Zarook

Read OPEN ACCESS here:

academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

So in other fun news, my employer recently instituted a new “international working” policy, which imposes draconian restrictions on the ability of staff to travel abroad for personal reasons.
Highlights include: any plans to work from out of the UK, even out of term time, are generally disallowed

What can a feminist perspective on visuals depicting grieving mothers tell us about their transformative potential?

In her article, @agarwalamya.bsky.social reflects on the significance of art in reinforcing gendered scripts of motherhood as well as creative forms of resistance.

📄 👉 rdcu.be/eraGf

A Zoom screenshot showing participants in discussion at the BISA Virtual Conference 2025

Our next panels are covering everything from Constructing World Politics, Perspectives on Foreign Policy & Diplomacy, to IR pedagogy, and Violence, Conflict, & Culture

@agarwalamya.bsky.social @nickcaddick.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @misradevika03.bsky.social

#VirtualBISA2025

Photograph of twelve International Relations students taking part in the BISA Virtual Conference 2025 at the University of Sheffield

After an insightful day, Prof. H. Farrand Carrapico (@NorthumbriaUni) is discussing Brexit Negotiations as part of our panel 'The Global Politics of Britain'

Huge thank you to the IR students of @sheffielduni.bsky.social!

#VirtualBISA2025

@monikameislova.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social

A Zoom screenshot showing participants of the BISA Virtual Conference 2025

Our #VirtualBISA2025 Day 2 afternoon panels have been great so far!

Giorgio Shani and @misradevika03.bsky.social have been presenting on both Global IR and Latin America as part of our 'Dialogues in Non-Western IR' panel

@agarwalamya.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social