*PSA Book Prize Winner*
🎉Congratulations to Prof. Elizabeth Evans & Prof. Stefanie Reher for their book 'Disability and Political Representation' (OUP) which is this year’s W.J.M. MacKenzie #BookPrize Winner
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Lol, you're anything but 'mid' my friend

Two small kittens, one tabby and one black

Getting kittens is making it hard to concentrate on work #catsofbluesky

Would also be happy to lose the 'X' or 'hugs' at the end

Two women smiling holding a prize certificate

Lovely to win the Mackenzie prize when so many great books were nominated, but also really lovely to win it with my brilliant friend @stefaniereher.bsky.social

A hat trick of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social prizes last night! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for the Mackenzie Book Prize, @dbonansinga.bsky.social for Specialist Group of the Year @psa-italian.bsky.social & @williamlallen.bsky.social for the Joni Lovenduski early-career achievement award. #psa26

Two colleagues @elizabethjevans.bsky.social
@drjennings.bsky.social are also shortlisted for the
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Mackenzie Book Prize, with the announcement on Tuesday evening. Good luck to all the nominees! bsky.app/profile/soto...

My kind of service to the discipline. Looking forward to checking some of these places out! Attn @stefaniereher.bsky.social

Chuffed that @elsabmeuller.bsky.social and I have won The Ken Young Prize for best article in @policy-politics.bsky.social for our paper on policy responses to incels. @sotonpolitics.bsky.social
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*PSA Mackenzie #BookPrize Shortlist 2025-26*
Congratulations to Prof. Elizabeth Evans @elizabethjevans.bsky.social & Dr Stefanie Reher for ‘Disability and Political Representation', published by Oxford University Press @academic.oup.com
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#Books #Politics #Disability

Mackenzie Book Prize 2025-26 Shortlist Announced - Political Studies Association Thank you to all who nominated a book for this esteemed prize which celebrates the distinctive contribution these works have made to advancing Political Studies. From an impressive number of entries, ...

Two books by our colleagues are shortlisted for this year's @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Mackenzie Book Prize! @elizabethjevans.bsky.social for 'Disability and Political Representation', and @drjennings.bsky.social for 'The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales'. www.psa.ac.uk/news/mackenz...

Great to speak about mine and @stefaniereher.bsky.social research at the @centenaryaction.bsky.social event on disabled women and politics at the House of Lords, hosted by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson 🤩 🤩 🤩

So happy that mine and @stefaniereher.bsky.social ESRC grant application for a 4 year comparative project on disability and political parties was successful!! @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

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New article out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social in which I provide a comparative analysis of disability & political parties and develop a framework for assessing their accessibility.

Hope they manage to get the Access to Elected Office/EnAble Fund reintroduced as @stefaniereher.bsky.social and I recommended www.gov.uk/government/p... and in our book Disability and Political Representation! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

New steering group to champion disabled people in elected office A new steering group will support disabled candidates in elections, advising on a fund for disability-related expenses to level the playing field.

So pleased to see this new steering group set up to support disabled people gain access to elected office - some excellent people on the steering group! www.gov.uk/government/n...

And here 🙌

Had a great time in Ottawa presenting some of the findings from mine and @stefaniereher.bsky.social research on disability and politics at the Canadian Parliament. Now just soaking up the election fever 🤓🇨🇦🍁

I'm in Ottawa at the moment and my taxi driver was talking to me about this very topic last night!!

Please do come along to this if you're in Brum for @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🚨My small book with
@cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social
on timely #empathy #politics is online and I can't be happier! 🚨

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*The manuscript can be accessed freely for the next 2 weeks!* The book builds on my PhD thesis, defended
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Congratulations to my brilliant office mate 😘

Happy to share this - although it is truly horrendous listening to yourself...

Our new Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social is officially up and running! 🎉

So excited to be running this with my brilliant colleagues @elizabethjevans.bsky.social and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social

Keep an eye out for more to come! 👇

Answers my question about whether you're around for coffee later! Enjoy the meeting ❤️

I'm all for the promotion of running and classical music but I think we could also do with an APPG on disability

Disappointed to discover there is currently no All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Disability. There's the very important Special Educational Needs and Disabilities APPG but this group focuses on children and young people rather than disability per se.

In Memoriam

Mala Htun (1969-2025)

Mala Htun made a major impact on the study of women, gender, and politics as a scholar, teacher, mentor, and advocate. To honor her contributions, we have ungated access to her articles until the end of February 2025.

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

We are a new interdisciplinary research centre @sotonpolitics.bsky.social focusing on gender and inequalities. Watch this space as we get up and running, as we have exciting news to share!