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Paolo Morini
@pmorini.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Policy Institute at King's College London. Public opinion and public participation/engagement with politics, especially global poverty and sustainable development.
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📢 New
@GSDRC
Working Paper!
How can donors maintain public support for aid in sensitive contexts?
German survey shows support rises when aid is channelled via NGOs.
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#ForeignAid #PublicOpinion #Afghanistan #DevelopmentPolicy
September 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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🚨🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨🚨

We have 3 lines open in CP, IR and IPE — all tenure-track.

We offer competitive salaries, a 2:1 teaching load, in a friendly (and fully in English) environment, at one of Europe’s most sought-after cities.
September 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Published today: our new evaluation with @johnnyrunge.bsky.social ‪ and @domenicaavilaluna.bsky.social. We studied the UK Democracy Fund's efforts to register 750,000 voters in the UK between 2019 and 2024 which saw nearly £2m being awarded to 33 grantees. www.jrrt.org.uk/powering-par...
Powering Participation: What we learned from the UK Democracy Fund - Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
Through the tireless efforts of our grantee community, the UK Democracy Fund estimates that together we helped register 750,000 voters ahead of the 2024 General Election. Grantees led campaigns in sch...
www.jrrt.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Do you work on immigrant integration or well-being? At this @compasoxford.bsky.social hybrid seminar on 19 Sep, Adam Komisarof (Keio, Japan) and I will each share work on migration attitudes, with commentary from the brilliant @sbvanoosten.bsky.social! www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/promot... #migcitsky
August 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
A little bit of today’s incredibly well attended Trans Pride in London
July 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I too want to jump on the London is *over* megatrain!!!
June 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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We're hiring a short-term postdoc (think "summer project"), or PhD-student RA, with advanced expertise in quantitative text analysis to support myself and Dr Marion Dumas (LSE) in a European Horizon-funded grant project. Details here adjust-project.eu/job-call/
JOB CALL: Research Fellow / Research Assistant with co-authorship—quantitative text analysis for social science (UCL) – AdJUSTFacebookLinkedInTwitter
Towards a just energy transition
adjust-project.eu
May 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What a pleasure to have @drorlysiow.bsky.social speak to researchers at the @policyatkings.bsky.social and share her work (with @drashleec.bsky.social and @cerifowler.bsky.social) on ministers' engagement with equalities organisations!
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham:
"The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."
March 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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This is the key paragraph of Dodds' resgination letter:
February 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Well done to Anneliese Dodds for sticking to her principles on this.

A terrible decision by Keir Starmer to fund increased defence spending by cutting support for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship – not half, as some reports would have you believe
theconversation.com/only-6-of-ge...
Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship – not half, as some reports would have you believe
Gen Z don’t hate democracy, they have a problem with the way it is being delivered.
theconversation.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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📢 Call for papers!

We are organizing the 5th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London!

Keynotes: Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) and Peter van der Windt (NYU-Abu Dhabi).

No fee, travel grants available!

Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpeearly
February 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Come work with us!

We're looking for a Lecturer and Reader + Deputy Director in Public Policy at the International School for Government, during a period of growth for the school as it expands its delivery of courses for the UK civil service

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February 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Enjoyed meeting the friendly @policyatkings.bsky.social crew this week to share thoughts on how qualitative insights can improve experimental designs and analysis - thanks @pmorini.bsky.social for kindly hosting!
December 13, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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We (@lisazanottiphd.bsky.social & Noam Titelman) are organising a workshop on polarisation and democratic decline in March/April at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social.

Please share and apply!

www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...

@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social
Workshop on Polarization, Democratic Backsliding, and the Expanding Gap Between Democratic Expectations and Outcomes: Latin America and Beyond
www.qmul.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Net migration could fall to zero, and visa rules could make life for migrants even more absolute hellish, but the UK media frame of “migration numbers remain (too) high” will never die.
November 28, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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🚨 Early-career researchers: One day left to apply for our fully funded workshop on „Citizens‘ Views on Representation“ 👇
You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇.
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November 26, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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❗DO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW WANT TO DO A PHD?

We have a PhD project on 'Democratic Resilience, Identities, and Geographical Imaginaries'.

Fully funded ✅
Generous research support grant ✅

Supervised by me and a colleague in Geography.

Details: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/irs/wp-conte...
generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk
November 26, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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🗣️ Call for papers: 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration, May 22–23 in Madrid

Keynotes by the brilliant Leah Boustan & @deanyang.bsky.social

Submissions due January 26th —> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#econconf #econsky
November 25, 2024 at 6:03 PM
New insights from the World Values Survey UK data while the Labour government thinks about extending the voting age to 16: younger respondents are significantly more concerned about unfair election coverage in the media, bribery and the influence of richer people on the electoral process.
November 25, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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I introduced our book, Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power (2016) with reflections on the 30th anniversary re-release of the single: www.routledge.com/Celebrity-Hu...
Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, place and power
Discussion over celebrity engagement is often limited to theoretical critique or normative name-calling, without much grounded research into what it is that celebrities are doing, the same or differen...
www.routledge.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:30 PM
New BlueSky is nice, but the classics are hard to beat...
Blue Skies
YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:09 PM