My paper with Fergus Green and Marion Dumas on computationally detecting environmental policy paradigms is going to be on the (CL10) 'European Institutions and Green Agenda Setting' panel! Come say hi - and give us some much-needed feedback! 🌱
Delighted to be chairing the discussion with
@katelynnutley.bsky.social at @standrewsir.bsky.social
on Monday 13th April 1-3pm,with:
-Prof. Sir John Curtice (University of Strathclyde)
-Dr. Jan Eichhorn (University of Edinburgh)
-Allan Foulds (Ballot Box Scotland)
-Dr. Mark McGeoghegan (IPSOS)
I love it.
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We've been covered by the local paper! 🗞️
@kieranomeara.bsky.social @nstb.bsky.social and I are hosting an elections roundtable with some phenomenal people, but these conversations are better when more people are a part of them! Locals welcome, link in comments.
www.fifetoday.co.uk/your-world/e...
Sorry, but we won't be recording - mostly because I would have to find and learn to use AV equipment in less than a week.
Fingies crossed. If not, nice knowing you, bud.
We're hosting a roundtable on Scotland's electoral landscape on April 13th from 1-3 PM w/ Sir John Curtice @strathpolir.bsky.social, @eichhornjan.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, Allan Faulds @ballotbox.scot, and @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk!
3/ To me it signals something important: students aren't afraid of quant methods. They just need to be given the opportunity. It's a reminder of why filling gaps in pedagogy matters, and why those of us who can, should. Ever to excel. ✨
2/ This week we received 60 applications from IR undergraduates @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. This is a department with a historically qualitative tradition, so that number genuinely surprised us.
1/ With @kieranomeara.bsky.social and @nstb.bsky.social , I've put together a student-led election monitoring project as a vehicle for teaching quant methods. Students collect data, help build the models, and interpret results, with an authored publication @cglgsta.bsky.social as the output. 🗳️
To our delight, we've been invited back. This time to join the Edinburgh Climate Coalition's screening & Q&A of Purpose — a film examining shifts towards wellbeing economies & natural wealth management.
If you're an Edi academic working on climate, come along: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/purpose-a-...
Two weeks ago, @elisaadamico.bsky.social & I shared our research on legislative responses to climate protest w/
Edinburgh Climate Coalition. We were hoping to build bridges between academics and practitioners & to help refine their gov't petitioning strategy — to better address the climate crisis.
Big news! I've been awarded the Program on Negotiation (PON) Research Fellowship @harvard.edu. When and why do democratic states foreclose negotiation for certain partisan groups? Heading to Cambridge in 2026–27 to find out. Give me a shout if you're there. Go Crimson! 🔴
Back at the LSE Sustainable Policy Workshop for a 2nd year — this time bringing new work with @fergusgreen.bsky.social and Marion Dumas on detecting environmental policy paradigms in EU pre-legislative documents using computational methods.
Calling Electoral Politics People 🏴
Running a Holyrood '26 prediction model for undergrads to get them into quant methods. They're tracking constituency + list polling, which are then dynamically fed to this dashboard (knutley.github.io/STAEM_Project/). What modelling approach would you suggest?
Any insight into how this was structured, documented, or signed off by your university would be hugely helpful. Feel free to comment below or drop me a message directly. Thank you in advance! 🙏
I have a really big opportunity and need to demonstrate that full-time internships can form an integral part of a PhD programme. I'd especially love to hear from anyone whose internship wasn't originally a formal requirement of their degree but was still approved as part of it.
To my network — especially PhD students in the UK 🎓:
Have you completed a full-time internship as a PhD student on a Student (Tier 4) Visa in the UK?
Finally, a political issue I can actually discuss with my dad.
Amazing analysis of pub closures in the UK, by @laurenleek.eu, and the corporate interests behind them. Some important political and policy implications open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
Yesterday, @elisaadamico.bsky.social and I presented our R&R'ed paper, "The Conditional Influence of Environmental Protest on Climate Policy" @standrewsir.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @jkaarbo.bsky.social for being our discussant. And to Holly Marshall and Camilo Ardila for organising the session.
See you all in Belfast! 🤠
🚨Job alert 🚨
I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.
If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.
📤 Please share widely!
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Huge thank you @ucdpolitics.bsky.social for hosting us at their "From Promise to Practice: Decoding EU Climate Policy and Politics" workshop. @elisaadamico.bsky.social and I presented work on the linkage between environmental protest and policy outcomes and received some really valuable feedback.
Long shot, but: I'm applying for the PON Graduate Fellowship @hls.harvard.edu and looking for intros to affiliated faculty. I'm a PhD candidate at @standrewsir.bsky.social working on adversarial state negotiation, policing, and protest using computational methods. Leads welcome (and appreciated)!
