Rossella Ciccia
@rossellaciccia.bsky.social
Associate professor of Social Policy @University of Oxford @DSPI Oxford | Fellow @greentempleton College, |Researching social policy, care, gender, intersectionality| Emma Goldman Award 2020
We are hiring! We are looking for a departmental lecturer to teach and supervise master students in comparative social policy. We offer a supportive and engaging environment in which to develop your own research agenda. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions Apply here 👇
Job alert!
We're looking for a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy to deliver teaching, supervision and service on MSc and MPhil courses in Comparative Social Policy.
Apply by 14 Nov
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We're looking for a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy to deliver teaching, supervision and service on MSc and MPhil courses in Comparative Social Policy.
Apply by 14 Nov
More info: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We are hiring! We are looking for a departmental lecturer to teach and supervise master students in comparative social policy. We offer a supportive and engaging environment in which to develop your own research agenda. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions Apply here 👇
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Mary Daly from @dspi-oxford.bsky.social presenting key insights from the @reusilience.bsky.social book “Families, Welfare States and Resilience” at #ESPAnet
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www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...
August 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Mary Daly from @dspi-oxford.bsky.social presenting key insights from the @reusilience.bsky.social book “Families, Welfare States and Resilience” at #ESPAnet
www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...
www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...
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We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social
Details:
✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST
✳️Informal enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org
✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j...
@lexnetwork.bsky.social
Details:
✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST
✳️Informal enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org
✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j...
@lexnetwork.bsky.social
Gender and Justice – Call for Book Editor – LEX Research Network
www.lexnetwork.org
July 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social
Details:
✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST
✳️Informal enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org
✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j...
@lexnetwork.bsky.social
Details:
✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST
✳️Informal enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org
✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j...
@lexnetwork.bsky.social
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The thought occurred reading this by @jdportes.bsky.social that no country where ‘high-skilled’ and ‘high-earning’ are automatically lumped together in political jargon will ever know how to build a happy society by caring adequately for the young or elderly.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s one slight issue with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes
The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The thought occurred reading this by @jdportes.bsky.social that no country where ‘high-skilled’ and ‘high-earning’ are automatically lumped together in political jargon will ever know how to build a happy society by caring adequately for the young or elderly.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK has dropped massively in both ILGA and TGEU's rankings, which have been published today. This means a material decrease in rights.
This isn't just shameful on the international stage - it means needless misery for so many LGBTQ+ people in this country.
goodlawproject.org/uk-plummets-...
This isn't just shameful on the international stage - it means needless misery for so many LGBTQ+ people in this country.
goodlawproject.org/uk-plummets-...
UK plummets down rankings for LGBTQ+ rights
Last month’s Supreme Court ruling has seen the UK fall six places to 22nd. It’s time to fight back
goodlawproject.org
May 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The UK has dropped massively in both ILGA and TGEU's rankings, which have been published today. This means a material decrease in rights.
This isn't just shameful on the international stage - it means needless misery for so many LGBTQ+ people in this country.
goodlawproject.org/uk-plummets-...
This isn't just shameful on the international stage - it means needless misery for so many LGBTQ+ people in this country.
goodlawproject.org/uk-plummets-...
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For a country with a population as old as the UK’s, this is the national equivalent of taking a hammer and swinging it right at your own knee
UK to end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown
https://www.ft.com/content/f844df48-09a3-47bf-b467-a2cb5bc9a307
https://www.ft.com/content/f844df48-09a3-47bf-b467-a2cb5bc9a307
UK to end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown
Employers’ ability to recruit staff from overseas for lower-skilled jobs will be restricted
www.ft.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
For a country with a population as old as the UK’s, this is the national equivalent of taking a hammer and swinging it right at your own knee
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I’ll take the cutting migration idea seriously the day a politician actually outlines a serious budgeted plan for training British-born workers for the skills we’re short of, and housing them in the places where they’re needed. Until then it’s just the worst kind of blame-shifting propaganda
May 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I’ll take the cutting migration idea seriously the day a politician actually outlines a serious budgeted plan for training British-born workers for the skills we’re short of, and housing them in the places where they’re needed. Until then it’s just the worst kind of blame-shifting propaganda
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A party that does not recognize this has given up on the basic principles of social democracy
a society where "bad immigrants" are demonised is a society where no immigrant can truly feel welcome, because aren't we all just one wrong turn or accident away from being unemployed? on disability benefits? unable to care for our children without state help? just no such thing as a safe immigrant
May 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A party that does not recognize this has given up on the basic principles of social democracy
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Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries.
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration
May 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries.
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration
1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration
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I am excited to share the latest issue of Politics & Gender, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the journal!
Articles reflect on contributions of P&G to political science and our research community.
All articles are free to read until the next issue.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
gendersky
Articles reflect on contributions of P&G to political science and our research community.
All articles are free to read until the next issue.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
gendersky
April 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I am excited to share the latest issue of Politics & Gender, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the journal!
Articles reflect on contributions of P&G to political science and our research community.
All articles are free to read until the next issue.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
gendersky
Articles reflect on contributions of P&G to political science and our research community.
All articles are free to read until the next issue.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
gendersky
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📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
@drashleec.bsky.social & @drorlysiow.bsky.social examine how intersectionality has been used within P&G and outline ways that future contributions can embrace the original Black feminist intentions of the concept.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
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@drashleec.bsky.social & @drorlysiow.bsky.social examine how intersectionality has been used within P&G and outline ways that future contributions can embrace the original Black feminist intentions of the concept.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/fiEoCno
April 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
@drashleec.bsky.social & @drorlysiow.bsky.social examine how intersectionality has been used within P&G and outline ways that future contributions can embrace the original Black feminist intentions of the concept.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/fiEoCno
@drashleec.bsky.social & @drorlysiow.bsky.social examine how intersectionality has been used within P&G and outline ways that future contributions can embrace the original Black feminist intentions of the concept.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/fiEoCno
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I am incredibly honored that my paper "Shaping institutional change in skill formation", which is my first-ever PhD project, has received the @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy& Welfare Best Paper Prize and has been published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Shaping institutional change in skill formation: the role of background ideas in growth strategies
States are taking on an increasingly prominent role in shaping policy across advanced capitalist democracies. This paper conducts a comparative study of state intervention in skill formation betwee...
www.tandfonline.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I am incredibly honored that my paper "Shaping institutional change in skill formation", which is my first-ever PhD project, has received the @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy& Welfare Best Paper Prize and has been published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Incredibly weak argument by the FT.
Asking an austerity-traumatized, increasingly aging society to contribute to the expenses of geopolitical security with social spending cuts makes it the opposite of safer.
Asking an austerity-traumatized, increasingly aging society to contribute to the expenses of geopolitical security with social spending cuts makes it the opposite of safer.
Highly paid FT editors advise UK govt to cut welfare spending; hurt the disabled, sick. poor, old.
Silence on redistribution of wealth; higher wages, reducing corporate welfare, ending tax perks of the rich,
It is class war and working class is losing it.
archive.ph/eJcv3
Silence on redistribution of wealth; higher wages, reducing corporate welfare, ending tax perks of the rich,
It is class war and working class is losing it.
archive.ph/eJcv3
How to cut Britain’s rising welfare bill
Reforms rather than quick fixes will save more money in the long term
www.ft.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Incredibly weak argument by the FT.
Asking an austerity-traumatized, increasingly aging society to contribute to the expenses of geopolitical security with social spending cuts makes it the opposite of safer.
Asking an austerity-traumatized, increasingly aging society to contribute to the expenses of geopolitical security with social spending cuts makes it the opposite of safer.
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This Thursday, SOFI researcher @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social will participate in a parallel event to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, in New York (CSW). At this NGO-led conference, he will present his research on the challenges faced by single mothers worldwide. #CSW69
March 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This Thursday, SOFI researcher @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social will participate in a parallel event to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, in New York (CSW). At this NGO-led conference, he will present his research on the challenges faced by single mothers worldwide. #CSW69
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🥁 New Article Collection! 📚
#Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe
1⃣2⃣ #FreeAccess Articles
🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, Nicolò Conti & @bonniefield.bsky.social
Read and download here ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...
#Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe
1⃣2⃣ #FreeAccess Articles
🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, Nicolò Conti & @bonniefield.bsky.social
Read and download here ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...
March 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🥁 New Article Collection! 📚
#Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe
1⃣2⃣ #FreeAccess Articles
🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, Nicolò Conti & @bonniefield.bsky.social
Read and download here ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...
#Gender and #Sexuality in Southern Europe
1⃣2⃣ #FreeAccess Articles
🎯Introduction by @elombardo.bsky.social, Nicolò Conti & @bonniefield.bsky.social
Read and download here ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/journals/fse...
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📣Call for panel alert 📣
Our section on "gender, sexuality and intersectionality in politics" is seeking panels!! Join us in Naples for the @sisp annual conference, 04-06 September 2025 🤩
info 👉 www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...
@alavizzari.bsky.social @francescafeo.bsky.social #gendersky
Our section on "gender, sexuality and intersectionality in politics" is seeking panels!! Join us in Naples for the @sisp annual conference, 04-06 September 2025 🤩
info 👉 www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...
@alavizzari.bsky.social @francescafeo.bsky.social #gendersky
Conference 2025 – SISP
www.sisp.it
March 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📣Call for panel alert 📣
Our section on "gender, sexuality and intersectionality in politics" is seeking panels!! Join us in Naples for the @sisp annual conference, 04-06 September 2025 🤩
info 👉 www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...
@alavizzari.bsky.social @francescafeo.bsky.social #gendersky
Our section on "gender, sexuality and intersectionality in politics" is seeking panels!! Join us in Naples for the @sisp annual conference, 04-06 September 2025 🤩
info 👉 www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...
@alavizzari.bsky.social @francescafeo.bsky.social #gendersky
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📢 PhD vacancy: Political Masculinities and Sexuality in European Parliaments. The position is part of my NWO-VICI 'Political Masculinities in Europe.' Please, share with potentially interested candidates in masculinities, sexuality and representative politics. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD Position Political Masculinities and Sexuality in European Parliaments
The Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam is hiring a PhD-student in a research project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO-VICI), titled ‘Political Masculinities in Eur...
werkenbij.uva.nl
March 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
📢 PhD vacancy: Political Masculinities and Sexuality in European Parliaments. The position is part of my NWO-VICI 'Political Masculinities in Europe.' Please, share with potentially interested candidates in masculinities, sexuality and representative politics. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Join us for a guest lecture by Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social on Authoritarian Feminism, the Broligarchy & Left Feminist Alternatives! This Thursday, hosted by the Gender & Sexuality Research Cluster @camsociology.bsky.social
📆 6 March, 5-6pm
📍Seminar Room, Department of Sociology, Cambridge
📆 6 March, 5-6pm
📍Seminar Room, Department of Sociology, Cambridge
March 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Join us for a guest lecture by Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social on Authoritarian Feminism, the Broligarchy & Left Feminist Alternatives! This Thursday, hosted by the Gender & Sexuality Research Cluster @camsociology.bsky.social
📆 6 March, 5-6pm
📍Seminar Room, Department of Sociology, Cambridge
📆 6 March, 5-6pm
📍Seminar Room, Department of Sociology, Cambridge
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Exciting opportunity to join the @changingrealities.bsky.social team at a time when the work we do together has never mattered more. Please do share widely
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Exciting opportunity to join the @changingrealities.bsky.social team at a time when the work we do together has never mattered more. Please do share widely
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Disability benefits have become a more important source of income for low-to-middle income households.
Read Money, money, money today to learn more about the shifting mix of income sources for poorer households over the last 30 years ⤵️ https://buff.ly/4gE0beF
Read Money, money, money today to learn more about the shifting mix of income sources for poorer households over the last 30 years ⤵️ https://buff.ly/4gE0beF
February 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Disability benefits have become a more important source of income for low-to-middle income households.
Read Money, money, money today to learn more about the shifting mix of income sources for poorer households over the last 30 years ⤵️ https://buff.ly/4gE0beF
Read Money, money, money today to learn more about the shifting mix of income sources for poorer households over the last 30 years ⤵️ https://buff.ly/4gE0beF
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"When it came to personal harassment, there was a clear gender dimension."
The fact that sexism remains widespread in academia is itself very disturbing but that this fact is not seen and treated as a big problem within academia (leadership) is infuriating.
The fact that sexism remains widespread in academia is itself very disturbing but that this fact is not seen and treated as a big problem within academia (leadership) is infuriating.
Two in five scientists in our survey reported harassment and intimidation. Often, the perpetrators are inside the institution
Science doesn’t occur in a vacuum – politics, harassment and intimidation can hamstring progress.
theconversation.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"When it came to personal harassment, there was a clear gender dimension."
The fact that sexism remains widespread in academia is itself very disturbing but that this fact is not seen and treated as a big problem within academia (leadership) is infuriating.
The fact that sexism remains widespread in academia is itself very disturbing but that this fact is not seen and treated as a big problem within academia (leadership) is infuriating.
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Be part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Climate Vulnerability team 🚀
I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p...
⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰
I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p...
⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰
Job Details
my.corehr.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Be part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Climate Vulnerability team 🚀
I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p...
⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰
I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p...
⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰
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"When and why do anti-gender movements fail?" 🏳️🌈✊
Bringing together evidence from four countries, this paper compares cases of failed & successful referenda on same-sex marriage and related rights to explain why they fail.
CHECK IT OUT:
Bringing together evidence from four countries, this paper compares cases of failed & successful referenda on same-sex marriage and related rights to explain why they fail.
CHECK IT OUT:
When and why do anti-gender movements fail?
Few areas of gender politics have received as much scholarly attention in recent years as its antithesis, the so-called ‘anti-gender politics’. A common denominator of existing studies of anti-gender…
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January 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"When and why do anti-gender movements fail?" 🏳️🌈✊
Bringing together evidence from four countries, this paper compares cases of failed & successful referenda on same-sex marriage and related rights to explain why they fail.
CHECK IT OUT:
Bringing together evidence from four countries, this paper compares cases of failed & successful referenda on same-sex marriage and related rights to explain why they fail.
CHECK IT OUT:
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We at @worldpolitics.bsky.social mourn the loss of brilliant scholar and editorial board member, Mala Htun. Read about her career and commitment to her students and university here www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
'A smart, talented, creative thinker:' UNM political science professor dies
Mala Htun, an author who taught at the University of New Mexico for over a decade, died Friday after living with cancer the last few years.
www.abqjournal.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We at @worldpolitics.bsky.social mourn the loss of brilliant scholar and editorial board member, Mala Htun. Read about her career and commitment to her students and university here www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
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📢 We’re putting together the very first standalone @ecpr.bsky.social conference for the thriving @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Extremism & Democracy Standing Group! The call for panels & papers is now open. Join us! 🤩
📯 Introducing a ✨ NEW conference ✨ for researchers specialising in extremism, democracy, and populism
🥇 Inaugural Conference of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social
🕰️ New and Old Challenges of #Populism and #Radicalism
💂♂️ Hosted by @qmul.ac.uk
📅 9–10 June 2025
✍️ Submit your Panel or Paper by 3 March
🥇 Inaugural Conference of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social
🕰️ New and Old Challenges of #Populism and #Radicalism
💂♂️ Hosted by @qmul.ac.uk
📅 9–10 June 2025
✍️ Submit your Panel or Paper by 3 March
Inaugural Conference of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, Queen Mary University of London, 9 – 10 June 2025
New and Old Challenges of Populism and Radicalism
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January 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
📢 We’re putting together the very first standalone @ecpr.bsky.social conference for the thriving @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Extremism & Democracy Standing Group! The call for panels & papers is now open. Join us! 🤩