PIR at Royal Holloway
rhulpir.bsky.social
PIR at Royal Holloway
@rhulpir.bsky.social
🎉 Many congratulations to former PIRP PhD student Matthew Polacko
@mattpolacko.bsky.social for winning the 2025 EPSR Early Careers Prize for his article Who benefits from the social democratic march to the middle?

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Matthew Polacko is awarded the 2025 EPSR Early Careers Prize
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
October 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
📣 New Publication Alert! In this article, Prof Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social and her co-authors propose a new framework for analysing "feminists vs conservative" battles over abortion reform.

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Adoption and Implementation as a Two-Stage Process: Feminist Strategies and Conservative Resistance in the Quest for Legislative Abortion Reform | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Adoption and Implementation as a Two-Stage Process: Feminist Strategies and Conservative Resistance in the Quest for Legislative Abortion Reform
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October 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Dr Michael Bacon @michaelbacon.bsky.social speaks to the Telegraph about his experience of spending three years in psychoanalysis as a child.

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September 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Today I presented work on the downfall of the European Commission led by Jacques Santer at @cont.europarl.europa.eu together with other experts. #Discharge #EUbudget cc: @rhulpir.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
📣 Congratulations to @andreucasas.bsky.social on winning a Future Leaders Fellowship from @ukri.org! As part of the project, Andreu launches the London Social Media Observatory @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social, a multidisciplinary research centre for cutting-edge research on social media and politics!
🚨Very honored to receive the Future Leaders Fellowship from @ukri.org I’ll use this 2.3 million £ investment to create the London Social Media Observatory, for cutting-edge research on social media and politics, and novel computational tools for social science research. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...
September 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Congratulations to Dr Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social, who has been elected as President of the European International Studies Association @europeanisa.bsky.social for 2025-2027!
September 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Dr Anthony Bruno has published a new book, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant, with Oxford University Press!

Available here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📣 One more day until the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Network Conference is taking place at Royal Holloway, organised by PIRP’s Lyn Johnstone and Nat Rutherford!
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Political Studies Association Teaching and Learning Network Conference | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
Theme: Teaching Well4th-5th September 2025 This year’s PSA TLN annual conference will take place on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham, Surrey.
www.psa.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A perfect occasion to read the Roadmap to Votes at 16 and the Pathways to Participation for Marginalised Young People report: hollodec.github.io/images/ssia_...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
July 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🚨 Launching: A Roadmap to Votes at 16 🚨

Kaat Smets and @jamessloam.bsky.social contributed to A Roadmap to Votes at 16 🗳️ - a report co-created with organisations, teachers, youth workers and young people to make Votes at 16 a success.

👉 Read the full report: docsend.com/view/9nnhamt...
July 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Kaat Smets, @jamessloam.bsky.social and @ainebennett.bsky.social are today launching their report "Pathways to Participation for Marginalised Young People" in collaboration with Partnership for Young London and the Pan-London CiCC
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July 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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I am delighted that this is now published in @wepsocial.bsky.social : our assessment of the 2020 negotiations on #RuleofLaw #conditionality and grants vs loans in the #RRF. #FunctionalSpillover #EUbudget
Online first: "Exploring the EU’s response to the COVID-19 and Rule of Law crises through functional spill-over" by David Moloney & @gbenedetto.bsky.social

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July 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Last month I was very pleased to host a Jean Monnet seminar in London on the democratic versus audit-based accountabilities within the EU's finances #EUbudget. Thanks to María-Luisa Sánchez-Barrueco, Andreea Hancu Budui, and Paul Stephenson for their papers. 1/2
July 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Five of our 2nd-year undergraduates have recently completed a week's work experience in the House of Commons🧑‍⚖️
Each worked with a different select committee, they met MPs and the speaker of the house, and attended PMQs and OPQs
Well done all!
July 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Sharing a blog post by @rhulpir.bsky.social final year student @tayapanter.bsky.social on the % of MPs who are [active] on BlueSky v. X:

hollodec.github.io/2025/06/26/b...

Three key takeaways (1/n)
Right-wing MPs are more active on X/Twitter and less present on Bluesky
(This is a lightly edited version of an essay written by Taya Panter, a final year undergraduate in PIRP. Taya wrote the essay for Nick Allen’s Parliamentary Studies module.)
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June 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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I am delighted to have been nominated for a @royalholloway.bsky.social Education Excellence Award. One of the comments from a nominating student said:

'From facilitating the greatest and most inspirational lectures and seminars...

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June 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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In the Linen Hall library finishing prep for this roundtable and panel I am very excited to be on tomorrow at #BISA2025
If you're also in Belfast, come and join us! 🌈🎓
June 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Students made thus website after a doing week-long workshop with @trillingual.bsky.social on social justice and journalism. Some powerful stories from our graduates, and incredible visuals as well well worth a read at - rtn.earth
Last week, students embarked on an intensive week-long workshop on Social Justice Journalism led by @trillingual.bsky.social convened by @yoavgalai.bsky.social from PIRP. Students researched and wrote the articles, made the visuals and designed the website at: rtn.earth
RTN: Reclaim the Narrative
A social justice journalism project at Royal Holloway, University of London
rtn.earth
June 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Our PhD student Samer Jaber's latest analysis of the Israel-Palestine conflict is out now in @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Israel’s strategic failure is now apparent
Israeli aggression and expansionism are not signs of ascendance; rather they point to inevitable failure.
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June 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Last week, students embarked on an intensive week-long workshop on Social Justice Journalism led by @trillingual.bsky.social convened by @yoavgalai.bsky.social from PIRP. Students researched and wrote the articles, made the visuals and designed the website at: rtn.earth
RTN: Reclaim the Narrative
A social justice journalism project at Royal Holloway, University of London
rtn.earth
June 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Are they worth it? Democratic and audit-based accountabilities in the EU's finances. Workshop at Bedford Square, London, 19 June 2025: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

#EUbudget

@uaces.bsky.social @rhulpir.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social @euinuk.bsky.social
Are they worth it? Democratic and audit-based accountabilities in the EU’s finances
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June 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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This is taking place tomorrow!
Dr Roberto Buonamano who is visiting us from the University of Technology Sydney will be presenting "From the Exception to Form-of-Life: What Agamben's political ontology can tell us about human rights" 4-5:30pm on Friday 6th June in Room 1-02 in Senate House - we hope to see you there! 🧑‍🏫📚
June 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Students of Law and Social Science are taking part in a week-long workshop on social justice journalism led by @trillingual.bsky.social and PIRP’s @yoavgalai.bsky.social
Watch this space for student work!
visualwriting.org/sj/
June 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM