🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨
What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered?
In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25
#PSA26
The call for 2026 APCG Award Nominations is live! The deadline for nominations is May 1st.
Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book!
www.afpol.org/blog/2026-ap...
Fantastic turnout yesterday for our Comparative Politics seminar with our alumnus Boniface Dulani (tallmanfromzomba.bsky.social) from @afrobarometer.bsky.social, discussing whether African democracy is at risk. Packed room and a lively discussion! @uoypolitics.bsky.social
We‘re very excited for the next edition of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim! ✨
Join us and apply until 1 March!
More info in @melinscribe.bsky.social‘s thread below and here: summerschoolwpm.org
Application form: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/wpm/
Fellow giving a presentation.
CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027
The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives'
⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships
So exciting, congrats! Can't wait to read it!
If you are thinking about pursuing a political science PhD and are interested in authoritarian politics, broadly understood, consider applying for this funded opportunity:
📣 Junior scholars in public law & courts! The Junior Law & Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for our Spring 2026 virtual seminar series. Grad students, postdocs & junior faculty encouraged to apply! ⏰ Deadline: Jan 12, 2026 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/
Congratulations to @ailitripp.bsky.social for her new book, Why African Autocracies Promote Women as Leaders (OUP, 2025). Learn more about this important scholarship in our latest blog post: www.afpol.org/blog/new-boo...
It's Election Time! Please vote for your new APCG officers. Voting will remain open through Monday, December 15, 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time. www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-of...
Congratulations @tessadevereaux.bsky.social and @ricarthuguet.bsky.social !
🚨Call for Papers ⬇️ Join us in Kraków
Heading to ASA in Atlanta? Join APCG for our business meeting, social, and panels! 🎉 Full details here: www.afpol.org/blog/african...
BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of preelection irregularities and fraud on electoral credibility, using the 2019 Malawian presidential election as a case study.
NEW -
How to Distinguish Human Error From Election Fraud: Evidence From the 2019 Malawi Election - https://cup.org/47pxPnc
- Johan Ahlbäck & @ryanjablonski.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
This year’s call for applications for the Prize Post Doctoral Fellowships in Politics at Nuffield College is now live! It’s a fantastic opportunity for newly minted PhDs to spend three years in a wonderful academic environment:
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
🚨🚨 Final call! Propose a panel for the Law & Courts section at ECPR 2026 (Kraków 🇵🇱, 8–11 Sept).
Submit by 31 Oct:
👉 Short title
👉 ≤80-word abstract
👉 1–2 co-chairs + ECPR emails
📧 Send your proposal to: thalia.gerzso@york.ac.uk & j.k.schaffer@gu.se
@ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social
Grad students in political science and other social sciences! Consider applying to the great 2-week summer program in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at Syracuse. Info is here:
www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
TODAY: Join the APCG Online Colloquium!
We’re the party of the family. But we’ll deport your spouse for claiming child benefit.
We’re the party of traditional values. But we’ll deport you if you become a stay-at-home parent.
We’re the party for pensioners. But we’ll deport you if you retire on less than 150% of average pensioner income.
Paper alert 🚨 Researching national narratives and democratic processes? Check out this new article from @eunajo.bsky.social
Heading to APSA in Vancouver? Join APCG for our business meeting, social, and panels! 🎉 Full details here: www.afpol.org/blog/apcg-sc...
Deprived places like Hull are deliberately pushed into further economic decline for what? So that Labour can point to a graph showing reduced net migration? And they expect that this will weaken Farage?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Great opportunity to present working papers on any topic related to African politics!
This is a great opportunity for ECRs in the social sciences (and beyond):
www.writersandartists.co.uk/Bloomsbury-A...
New Book Alert 🚨 In a new blog post, Ato Kwamena Onoma presents his new book: The Undulating Capacity of the State. www.afpol.org/blog/new-boo...
📢 Today at 3:45 PM: Join our panel on democratic self-defense.
We’ll bring together perspectives from Africa, Brazil, the Post-Soviet states, Western Europe & the U.S. Don’t miss this conversation.
#ecprgc25
Submit to the Junior Law and Politics Research Community by today to be considered for our fall seminar series on zoom!
