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🗣️Department of Sociology, Politics, and International Relations
📚Department of History
🌍Department of Geography and Environmental Science
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🗣️Department of Sociology, Politics, and International Relations
📚Department of History
🌍Department of Geography and Environmental Science
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/society-and-environment/
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Fully funded PhD scholarships @qmulsse.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social Doctoral research studentships for 2026 start www.qmul.ac.uk/about/hss/re...
Doctoral Research Studentships - Queen Mary University of London
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November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Fully funded PhD scholarships @qmulsse.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social Doctoral research studentships for 2026 start www.qmul.ac.uk/about/hss/re...
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Lovely post from @wonkhe.bsky.social's Hugh Jones, recapping the 240-year history of Queen Mary and our commitment to improving lives through education and academic excellence.
NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to jellied eel territory buff.ly/UWryNN0
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Lovely post from @wonkhe.bsky.social's Hugh Jones, recapping the 240-year history of Queen Mary and our commitment to improving lives through education and academic excellence.
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BTW, any UK outlets that want a British based Chilean (party and electoral) politics expert, need look no further than our fab @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague @sajuria.com
“An iron fist! That’s what we need! Like a Bukele!”: the ultra-conservative politician José Antonio Kast closes in on the presidency in Chile with a Trumpian pitch on crime & immigration www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘We need an iron fist’: the Trump-inspired favourite to win Chile’s election
José Antonio Kast, 59, is appealing to voters with a hard-right pitch on crime and immigration
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
BTW, any UK outlets that want a British based Chilean (party and electoral) politics expert, need look no further than our fab @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague @sajuria.com
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Great to see the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social's own Tom Chidwick on this week's episode of 'Since Attlee and Churchill' with @qmulsse.bsky.social's Richard Johnson and @leedavidevansuk.bsky.social!
How did Dick Taverne overcome the full force of the Labour Party? Find out in this week's episode...
How did Dick Taverne overcome the full force of the Labour Party? Find out in this week's episode...
🚨 NEW PODCAST: Who achieved 'the most significant by-election success ever’?
In this week's podcast, Richard and I are joined by Tom Chidwick of the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social to discuss Dick Taverne.
When Taverne was deselected by his local party, he forced a dramatic by-election...
In this week's podcast, Richard and I are joined by Tom Chidwick of the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social to discuss Dick Taverne.
When Taverne was deselected by his local party, he forced a dramatic by-election...
November 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Great to see the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social's own Tom Chidwick on this week's episode of 'Since Attlee and Churchill' with @qmulsse.bsky.social's Richard Johnson and @leedavidevansuk.bsky.social!
How did Dick Taverne overcome the full force of the Labour Party? Find out in this week's episode...
How did Dick Taverne overcome the full force of the Labour Party? Find out in this week's episode...
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Fully funded PhD scholarships from the AHRC. Deadline 1 Dec 2025. Come and work with us at @qmulsse.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
www.qmul.ac.uk/about/hss/re...
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AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards in the Arts and Humanities - Queen Mary University of London
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November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Fully funded PhD scholarships from the AHRC. Deadline 1 Dec 2025. Come and work with us at @qmulsse.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social
www.qmul.ac.uk/about/hss/re...
www.qmul.ac.uk/about/hss/re...
Dr Andy Russell, Reader in Environmental Science and Policy, is part of the team of researchers attending #COP30 next year 👏
Excited to hear the insights post-conference!
Excited to hear the insights post-conference!
From London to the Amazon!
Queen Mary is sending five researchers to #COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to collaborate with international partners and showcase how the University is taking action to combat climate change through research www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...
Queen Mary is sending five researchers to #COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to collaborate with international partners and showcase how the University is taking action to combat climate change through research www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...
Queen Mary experts head to COP30 in Brazil
Queen Mary University of London is sending a delegation of five researchers to Belém, Brazil, to participate in COP30, the 30th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. Set in the Amazon from ...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Dr Andy Russell, Reader in Environmental Science and Policy, is part of the team of researchers attending #COP30 next year 👏
Excited to hear the insights post-conference!
Excited to hear the insights post-conference!
Protest & repression in #Belarus 🗣️
Dr Natalya Chernyshova, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, recently appeared on a US podcast, The Rhyming Chaos, to discuss the protest and repression in Belarus, and the lessons they might hold for #USPolitics.
www.rhymingchaos.com/p/protest-an...
Dr Natalya Chernyshova, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, recently appeared on a US podcast, The Rhyming Chaos, to discuss the protest and repression in Belarus, and the lessons they might hold for #USPolitics.
www.rhymingchaos.com/p/protest-an...
Protest and repression in Belarus
COVID taught Belarusians to self-organize. Then they started demonstrating. Author Natalya Chernyshova discusses the protests, crackdown, and dodgy democracy under Trumpian Lukashenko.
www.rhymingchaos.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Protest & repression in #Belarus 🗣️
Dr Natalya Chernyshova, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, recently appeared on a US podcast, The Rhyming Chaos, to discuss the protest and repression in Belarus, and the lessons they might hold for #USPolitics.
www.rhymingchaos.com/p/protest-an...
Dr Natalya Chernyshova, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, recently appeared on a US podcast, The Rhyming Chaos, to discuss the protest and repression in Belarus, and the lessons they might hold for #USPolitics.
www.rhymingchaos.com/p/protest-an...
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@robertsaunders.bsky.social was joined by @qmulsse.bsky.social's own @philipjcowley.bsky.social, Baroness Finn, the Conservative peer and deputy chief-of-staff to the prime minister from 2021 to 2022, and Baroness Shephard, a minister in the Thatcher government who is a Fellow of @qmul.bsky.social.
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
@robertsaunders.bsky.social was joined by @qmulsse.bsky.social's own @philipjcowley.bsky.social, Baroness Finn, the Conservative peer and deputy chief-of-staff to the prime minister from 2021 to 2022, and Baroness Shephard, a minister in the Thatcher government who is a Fellow of @qmul.bsky.social.
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Andrej Zaslove and I wrote down our thoughts on the recent Dutch election results, noting the continuing relevance of the far right and the hollowing of the (liberal) centre. 👇 @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social
The Dutch election results came as a relief to many centrist voters, but this was not quite the triumphant "return to the centre" it has been portrayed as.
✍ @stijntvankessel.bsky.social & Andrej Zaslove blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍ @stijntvankessel.bsky.social & Andrej Zaslove blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
The Dutch parliamentary election – not quite a “return to the centre”
Rob Jetten’s victory at the 2025 Dutch election was a blow for Geert Wilders, but far-right policies remain firmly in the mainstream of Dutch politics.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Andrej Zaslove and I wrote down our thoughts on the recent Dutch election results, noting the continuing relevance of the far right and the hollowing of the (liberal) centre. 👇 @qmul-sse-cgd.bsky.social @qmulsse.bsky.social
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What are the origins of devolution? What can we learn from the '70s? How long should we wait between referendums?
In @dodspolintel.bsky.social's latest collaboration with @qmulsse.bsky.social, @drjoshwells.bsky.social talks to Tom Chidwick about his forthcoming book, Now or Never!
shorturl.at/93ISv
In @dodspolintel.bsky.social's latest collaboration with @qmulsse.bsky.social, @drjoshwells.bsky.social talks to Tom Chidwick about his forthcoming book, Now or Never!
shorturl.at/93ISv
“A Motorway Without an Exit”: In conversation with Tom Chidwick on devolution, division and the future of British politics | Dods Political Intelligence
In this wide-ranging conversation, Tom Chidwick, the political historian and Manager of the Mile End Institute, speaks with Josh Wells about the unfinished story of British devolution and the constitu...
www.dodspoliticalintelligence.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
What are the origins of devolution? What can we learn from the '70s? How long should we wait between referendums?
In @dodspolintel.bsky.social's latest collaboration with @qmulsse.bsky.social, @drjoshwells.bsky.social talks to Tom Chidwick about his forthcoming book, Now or Never!
shorturl.at/93ISv
In @dodspolintel.bsky.social's latest collaboration with @qmulsse.bsky.social, @drjoshwells.bsky.social talks to Tom Chidwick about his forthcoming book, Now or Never!
shorturl.at/93ISv
📢 Join us for the 2025 Kato Memorial Lecture with Prof. Nikhil Pal Singh (NYU) - “Revisionist Powers: Migration and Citizenship in America’s Homeland Security State.”
🗓 12 Nov, 17:30 | 📍 QMUL, Arts Two LT
🔗 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kato-memor...
#KatoMemorialLecture #Politics
🗓 12 Nov, 17:30 | 📍 QMUL, Arts Two LT
🔗 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kato-memor...
#KatoMemorialLecture #Politics
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📢 Join us for the 2025 Kato Memorial Lecture with Prof. Nikhil Pal Singh (NYU) - “Revisionist Powers: Migration and Citizenship in America’s Homeland Security State.”
🗓 12 Nov, 17:30 | 📍 QMUL, Arts Two LT
🔗 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kato-memor...
#KatoMemorialLecture #Politics
🗓 12 Nov, 17:30 | 📍 QMUL, Arts Two LT
🔗 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kato-memor...
#KatoMemorialLecture #Politics
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ft. our @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague Sofia Collignon.
Why did Nigel Farage's Ten Minute Rule Bill fail?
YouTube video by Hansard Society
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October 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
ft. our @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague Sofia Collignon.
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From our @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague @karlpike.bsky.social
Lucy Powell becomes Labour’s deputy leader – what that means for the party and Keir Starmer
Powell beat Keir Starmer’s preferred candidate, Bridget Phillipson, in a ballot of members.
theconversation.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
From our @qmulsse.bsky.social colleague @karlpike.bsky.social
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Welcome to the brand-new Bluesky account of the Centre for Governance and Democracy (CGD, www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...), which is part of the Department of Sociology, Politics and International Relations (SPIR) in @qmulsse.bsky.social. Please, follow us here for research news, updates and events!
Centre for Governance and Democracy - School of Society and Environment – Department of Politics and International Relations
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October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Welcome to the brand-new Bluesky account of the Centre for Governance and Democracy (CGD, www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...), which is part of the Department of Sociology, Politics and International Relations (SPIR) in @qmulsse.bsky.social. Please, follow us here for research news, updates and events!
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I'm very chuffed to say that tomorrow is the official book launch at @qmulsse.bsky.social for my monograph 'The Politics of Antagonism: Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity.' /1
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
The Politics of Antagonism
Book talk followed by discussion and Q&A with the author, Dr Georg Löfflmann'.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I'm very chuffed to say that tomorrow is the official book launch at @qmulsse.bsky.social for my monograph 'The Politics of Antagonism: Populist Security Narratives and the Remaking of Political Identity.' /1
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
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One observation re. the Dutch election is the enduring strength of the far right (I am not fully subscribing to the 'shift back to the centre' narrative). I should be on ABC Australia News channel at around 11 CET to talk about this and to show my plants (again). www.youtube.com/live/vOTiJkg...
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
One observation re. the Dutch election is the enduring strength of the far right (I am not fully subscribing to the 'shift back to the centre' narrative). I should be on ABC Australia News channel at around 11 CET to talk about this and to show my plants (again). www.youtube.com/live/vOTiJkg...
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I've been invited to give a public lecture in Paris about my upcoming @manchesterup.bsky.social book on 4 December. If you're around then please do come and join (or you can also register to attend virtually)!
@qmulsse.bsky.social
www.london.ac.uk/institute-pa...
@qmulsse.bsky.social
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Make Cheese Not War: Transnational Resistance and the Larzac
Join Dr Andrew WM Smith to discover how rural resistance on France’s Larzac plateau became a global movement of solidarity and success.
www.london.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I've been invited to give a public lecture in Paris about my upcoming @manchesterup.bsky.social book on 4 December. If you're around then please do come and join (or you can also register to attend virtually)!
@qmulsse.bsky.social
www.london.ac.uk/institute-pa...
@qmulsse.bsky.social
www.london.ac.uk/institute-pa...
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I wrote a pre-election briefing / commentary ahead of the Dutch parliamentary election next week (October 29th). The main focus is on the enduring relevance of the far right, the salience of the immigration issue, and how mainstream parties contribute to its politicisation.
Op-ed: The enduring relevance of the Far Right ahead of the Dutch National Election on 29th October - The Foreign Policy Centre
Alongside issues such as housing and health care, the key far-right theme of immigration continues to feature high on the political agenda ahead of the Dutch national election on 29th October. In a fr...
fpc.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I wrote a pre-election briefing / commentary ahead of the Dutch parliamentary election next week (October 29th). The main focus is on the enduring relevance of the far right, the salience of the immigration issue, and how mainstream parties contribute to its politicisation.
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Announcing our #BISA2026 conference keynote as leading scholar Professor Kimberly Hutchings @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social 🎉
The title will be 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ and we are very excited! 🌟
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/c46i8zp
@simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
The title will be 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ and we are very excited! 🌟
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/c46i8zp
@simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Announcing our #BISA2026 conference keynote as leading scholar Professor Kimberly Hutchings @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social 🎉
The title will be 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ and we are very excited! 🌟
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/c46i8zp
@simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
The title will be 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ and we are very excited! 🌟
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/c46i8zp
@simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
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Great to speak to @theguardian.com's Rhiannon Cosslett about men, children, and fertility
tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let’s stop asking why women aren’t having children and ask, for once: why aren’t men? | Rhiannon Lucy Coslett
On the whole, men I’ve spoken to – like women – want children. But a host of issues, from housing to mental health, is getting in the way, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Great to speak to @theguardian.com's Rhiannon Cosslett about men, children, and fertility
tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@qmul.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@qmul.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
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For 240 years, Queen Mary has been tackling inequalities, changing lives and making new discoveries.
The latest KEF results reflect this enduring mission and reflect the University's excellence in knowledge exchange.
Read more: tinyurl.com/y3juybef
The latest KEF results reflect this enduring mission and reflect the University's excellence in knowledge exchange.
Read more: tinyurl.com/y3juybef
Excellent KEF results 2025
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September 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
For 240 years, Queen Mary has been tackling inequalities, changing lives and making new discoveries.
The latest KEF results reflect this enduring mission and reflect the University's excellence in knowledge exchange.
Read more: tinyurl.com/y3juybef
The latest KEF results reflect this enduring mission and reflect the University's excellence in knowledge exchange.
Read more: tinyurl.com/y3juybef
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👍👏 @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's @stijntvankessel.bsky.social quoted - in pidgin!
"Trying to compete for di turf of di far right, trying to sound like say dem dey tough on immigration, go only keep di issue of immigration high for di political agenda, and dat go ultimately benefit di radical right."
"Trying to compete for di turf of di far right, trying to sound like say dem dey tough on immigration, go only keep di issue of immigration high for di political agenda, and dat go ultimately benefit di radical right."
UK anti immigration protests: Wetin dey behind di rise of nationalism for UK? - BBC News Pidgin
Last week, more dan 100,000 pipo bin take part for anti-migration protest for London. Shey di UK na di next big democracy to take radical shift to di right?
www.bbc.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
👍👏 @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's @stijntvankessel.bsky.social quoted - in pidgin!
"Trying to compete for di turf of di far right, trying to sound like say dem dey tough on immigration, go only keep di issue of immigration high for di political agenda, and dat go ultimately benefit di radical right."
"Trying to compete for di turf of di far right, trying to sound like say dem dey tough on immigration, go only keep di issue of immigration high for di political agenda, and dat go ultimately benefit di radical right."
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"The whole volume is suffused with wit, forensic detail and shrewd political judgement." Natch - it's by @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's @philipjcowley.bsky.social
'Not just for nerds': Lord Newby reviews 'The Smallest Room in the House'
Suffused with wit, forensic detail and shrewd political judgement, Philip Cowley has produced a valuable book
www.politicshome.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"The whole volume is suffused with wit, forensic detail and shrewd political judgement." Natch - it's by @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's @philipjcowley.bsky.social