Ariadne Vromen
@ariadnevromen.bsky.social
Political Sociologist - citizen engagement, digital politics, young people, future of work, advocacy, & popular culture.
Obsessed with dogs, coffee, chocolate
From Sydney 🇦🇺 now living in Glasgow 🏴
Obsessed with dogs, coffee, chocolate
From Sydney 🇦🇺 now living in Glasgow 🏴
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Are you studying the symbolic aspects of politics or policy?
Don't miss this opportunity to participate in an #ecprjs26 workshop convened by @ffaucher.bsky.social with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social in Innsbruck next April.
Submit your proposal by December 3: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
#MondayMotivation
Don't miss this opportunity to participate in an #ecprjs26 workshop convened by @ffaucher.bsky.social with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social in Innsbruck next April.
Submit your proposal by December 3: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
#MondayMotivation
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Joint Sessions of Workshops 2026
7 – 10 April
University of Innsbruck, Austria
#ecprjs26
Paper proposals are now open until 3 December.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:76hrkrslmzh2qwrxhcxwzx7p/bafkreicqaujrkobcfktg2k24eit73hxvorjen2kzgashohyr2natvb22a4@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Are you studying the symbolic aspects of politics or policy?
Don't miss this opportunity to participate in an #ecprjs26 workshop convened by @ffaucher.bsky.social with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social in Innsbruck next April.
Submit your proposal by December 3: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
#MondayMotivation
Don't miss this opportunity to participate in an #ecprjs26 workshop convened by @ffaucher.bsky.social with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social in Innsbruck next April.
Submit your proposal by December 3: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
#MondayMotivation
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Pretty interesting job to run @jrf-uk.bsky.social - social change organisation proposing policy interventions that address poverty; and supporting social innovation. £165k. Based in York
starfishsearch.com/jobs/jrf-gro...
starfishsearch.com/jobs/jrf-gro...
Group Chief Executive Officer - Starfish Search
starfishsearch.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Pretty interesting job to run @jrf-uk.bsky.social - social change organisation proposing policy interventions that address poverty; and supporting social innovation. £165k. Based in York
starfishsearch.com/jobs/jrf-gro...
starfishsearch.com/jobs/jrf-gro...
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We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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Imagined immigration is shaping our politics blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Imagined immigration is shaping our politics | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Immigration has become the number one political priority for the public. But there is one problem: this immigration is imagined, it doesn't really exist.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Imagined immigration is shaping our politics blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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Very excited to announce our ECPR Joint Sessions workshop on Symbolic politics & policy, that I am co-directing with the inimitable Florence Faucher of Sciences Po
Please submit a paper and come join us for a great few days of discussion!
Please submit a paper and come join us for a great few days of discussion!
📢 Call for Papers OPEN 📢
✍️ Hone your research at the 2026 Joint Sessions 👇
❇️ get thorough feedback
❇️ join the interdisciplinary dialogue
❇️ build enduring networks
✅ 35 confirmed Workshops
📆 7–10 April, @polsciuibk.bsky.social
⌛ Submit by 3 Dec
#ecprjs26 #PoliSky
✍️ Hone your research at the 2026 Joint Sessions 👇
❇️ get thorough feedback
❇️ join the interdisciplinary dialogue
❇️ build enduring networks
✅ 35 confirmed Workshops
📆 7–10 April, @polsciuibk.bsky.social
⌛ Submit by 3 Dec
#ecprjs26 #PoliSky
Academic Programme - ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2026
Submissions close 3 December 2025
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Very excited to announce our ECPR Joint Sessions workshop on Symbolic politics & policy, that I am co-directing with the inimitable Florence Faucher of Sciences Po
Please submit a paper and come join us for a great few days of discussion!
Please submit a paper and come join us for a great few days of discussion!
Very excited to announce our ECPR Joint Sessions workshop on Symbolic politics & policy, that I am co-directing with the inimitable Florence Faucher of Sciences Po
Please submit a paper and come join us for a great few days of discussion!
Please submit a paper and come join us for a great few days of discussion!
📢 Call for Papers OPEN 📢
✍️ Hone your research at the 2026 Joint Sessions 👇
❇️ get thorough feedback
❇️ join the interdisciplinary dialogue
❇️ build enduring networks
✅ 35 confirmed Workshops
📆 7–10 April, @polsciuibk.bsky.social
⌛ Submit by 3 Dec
#ecprjs26 #PoliSky
✍️ Hone your research at the 2026 Joint Sessions 👇
❇️ get thorough feedback
❇️ join the interdisciplinary dialogue
❇️ build enduring networks
✅ 35 confirmed Workshops
📆 7–10 April, @polsciuibk.bsky.social
⌛ Submit by 3 Dec
#ecprjs26 #PoliSky
Academic Programme - ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 2026
Submissions close 3 December 2025
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Very excited to announce our ECPR Joint Sessions workshop on Symbolic politics & policy, that I am co-directing with the inimitable Florence Faucher of Sciences Po
Please submit a paper and come join us for a great few days of discussion!
Please submit a paper and come join us for a great few days of discussion!
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Feeling like a real local now - my autumnal photo taken in the Scottish Highlands was published by BBC Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Your pictures of Scotland: Photographs from around the country
A selection of photographs submitted to BBC Scotland News from around the country this week.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Feeling like a real local now - my autumnal photo taken in the Scottish Highlands was published by BBC Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Feeling like a real local now - my autumnal photo taken in the Scottish Highlands was published by BBC Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Your pictures of Scotland: Photographs from around the country
A selection of photographs submitted to BBC Scotland News from around the country this week.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Feeling like a real local now - my autumnal photo taken in the Scottish Highlands was published by BBC Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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⏰Early view
How is #Empathy understood by public servants❓
How do #PublicServants practise empathy in their work❓
@mussagulova.bsky.social, Jaime Padilla, & Andy Asquith study how empathy is enacted and structured into public service work 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
How is #Empathy understood by public servants❓
How do #PublicServants practise empathy in their work❓
@mussagulova.bsky.social, Jaime Padilla, & Andy Asquith study how empathy is enacted and structured into public service work 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 AM
⏰Early view
How is #Empathy understood by public servants❓
How do #PublicServants practise empathy in their work❓
@mussagulova.bsky.social, Jaime Padilla, & Andy Asquith study how empathy is enacted and structured into public service work 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
How is #Empathy understood by public servants❓
How do #PublicServants practise empathy in their work❓
@mussagulova.bsky.social, Jaime Padilla, & Andy Asquith study how empathy is enacted and structured into public service work 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
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This was very cathartic to write, and I'm grateful to @samfr.bsky.social for giving me the space to try and set out just why the two-child limit must go, and go in its entirety
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New post out:
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
We have a couple of bonus guest posts over the next week.
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This was very cathartic to write, and I'm grateful to @samfr.bsky.social for giving me the space to try and set out just why the two-child limit must go, and go in its entirety
[mini 🧵]
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📣 ICYMI - you can read Prof @ariadnevromen.bsky.social & Dr Michael Scanlan's blog on the relationship between music & politics on our website now!
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POLITICAL MUSIC OR MUSIC FOR POLITICS? - John Smith Centre
A blog based on a shared playlist created for a UoG Politics Society Pints and Politics event on Music and Politics on October 14. In the 1980s song Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards, English…
www.johnsmithcentre.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
📣 ICYMI - you can read Prof @ariadnevromen.bsky.social & Dr Michael Scanlan's blog on the relationship between music & politics on our website now!
👇 👇 👇
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And who says “mixing pop and politics, he asks me what the use is. I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses”?!
Thank you auspol for this gem via the hapless Opposition
Thank you auspol for this gem via the hapless Opposition
Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again
Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again
While the opposition leader criticised the prime minister’s clothing as a ‘profound failure of judgment’, Albanese posted he was ‘getting things done’
Sussan Ley, faced with internal turmoil over climate and environment issues while trying to extinguish simmering challenges from a disgruntled backbench who want to philosophically reshape the very party she leads, has elevated a critical new political issue to the top of the national agenda.
The prime minister’s decision to wear a Joy Division T-shirt. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
And who says “mixing pop and politics, he asks me what the use is. I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses”?!
Thank you auspol for this gem via the hapless Opposition
Thank you auspol for this gem via the hapless Opposition
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Cruise control: could a £5 ‘entry’ fee help balance Orkney’s needs with tourist demand?
Cruise control: could a £5 ‘entry’ fee help balance Orkney’s needs with tourist demand?
With tourists outnumbering locals by 20:1, islanders say levy is needed to help protect neolithic sites and maintain public services
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Cruise control: could a £5 ‘entry’ fee help balance Orkney’s needs with tourist demand?
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Quite the lunchtime tonic: behind the scenes at the recording of @pjharvey.net's Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYkl...
PJ Harvey - EPK: Stories From The City, Stories From Sea
YouTube video by PJ Harvey
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Quite the lunchtime tonic: behind the scenes at the recording of @pjharvey.net's Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYkl...
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www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/politic...
I wrote this blog for the @johnsmithcentre.com with my @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleague Michael Scanlan - on Tuesday night we spoke with over 100 undergrads at Pints & Politics on music and politics - was a lot of fun
Check out our playlist too 😁
I wrote this blog for the @johnsmithcentre.com with my @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleague Michael Scanlan - on Tuesday night we spoke with over 100 undergrads at Pints & Politics on music and politics - was a lot of fun
Check out our playlist too 😁
POLITICAL MUSIC OR MUSIC FOR POLITICS? - John Smith Centre
A blog based on a shared playlist created for a UoG Politics Society Pints and Politics event on Music and Politics on October 14. In the 1980s song Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards, English trouba...
www.johnsmithcentre.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/politic...
I wrote this blog for the @johnsmithcentre.com with my @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleague Michael Scanlan - on Tuesday night we spoke with over 100 undergrads at Pints & Politics on music and politics - was a lot of fun
Check out our playlist too 😁
I wrote this blog for the @johnsmithcentre.com with my @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleague Michael Scanlan - on Tuesday night we spoke with over 100 undergrads at Pints & Politics on music and politics - was a lot of fun
Check out our playlist too 😁
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Written by Professor David Lundie, this article explores why schools must move beyond online safety to help young people build the skills and values for digital citizenship.
Read more on the #SocSciHub: tinyurl.com/bdu48dwx
Read more on the #SocSciHub: tinyurl.com/bdu48dwx
October 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Written by Professor David Lundie, this article explores why schools must move beyond online safety to help young people build the skills and values for digital citizenship.
Read more on the #SocSciHub: tinyurl.com/bdu48dwx
Read more on the #SocSciHub: tinyurl.com/bdu48dwx
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This week on Wonkhe: Despite new OfS requirements, universities remain reluctant to fully ban staff-student relationships. Jim Dickinson investigates the gaps between policy, practice, and what students really want
Universities don't seem to understand how power dynamics on campus are abused
Despite new OfS requirements, universities remain reluctant to fully ban staff-student relationships. Jim Dickinson investigates the gaps between policy, practice, and what students really want Despite...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This week on Wonkhe: Despite new OfS requirements, universities remain reluctant to fully ban staff-student relationships. Jim Dickinson investigates the gaps between policy, practice, and what students really want
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🎸 POLITICAL MUSIC OR MUSIC FOR POLITICS?
🎵 In our latest blog, @ariadnevromen.bsky.social and Dr Michael Scanlan explore how music is used as a vehicle for political expression and identity building, storytelling, and resistance.
Read it here 👇
🎵 In our latest blog, @ariadnevromen.bsky.social and Dr Michael Scanlan explore how music is used as a vehicle for political expression and identity building, storytelling, and resistance.
Read it here 👇
POLITICAL MUSIC OR MUSIC FOR POLITICS? - John Smith Centre
A blog based on a shared playlist created for a UoG Politics Society Pints and Politics event on Music and Politics on October 14. In the 1980s song Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards, English…
www.johnsmithcentre.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🎸 POLITICAL MUSIC OR MUSIC FOR POLITICS?
🎵 In our latest blog, @ariadnevromen.bsky.social and Dr Michael Scanlan explore how music is used as a vehicle for political expression and identity building, storytelling, and resistance.
Read it here 👇
🎵 In our latest blog, @ariadnevromen.bsky.social and Dr Michael Scanlan explore how music is used as a vehicle for political expression and identity building, storytelling, and resistance.
Read it here 👇
www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/politic...
I wrote this blog for the @johnsmithcentre.com with my @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleague Michael Scanlan - on Tuesday night we spoke with over 100 undergrads at Pints & Politics on music and politics - was a lot of fun
Check out our playlist too 😁
I wrote this blog for the @johnsmithcentre.com with my @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleague Michael Scanlan - on Tuesday night we spoke with over 100 undergrads at Pints & Politics on music and politics - was a lot of fun
Check out our playlist too 😁
POLITICAL MUSIC OR MUSIC FOR POLITICS? - John Smith Centre
A blog based on a shared playlist created for a UoG Politics Society Pints and Politics event on Music and Politics on October 14. In the 1980s song Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards, English trouba...
www.johnsmithcentre.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/politic...
I wrote this blog for the @johnsmithcentre.com with my @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleague Michael Scanlan - on Tuesday night we spoke with over 100 undergrads at Pints & Politics on music and politics - was a lot of fun
Check out our playlist too 😁
I wrote this blog for the @johnsmithcentre.com with my @uofglasgow.bsky.social colleague Michael Scanlan - on Tuesday night we spoke with over 100 undergrads at Pints & Politics on music and politics - was a lot of fun
Check out our playlist too 😁
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I also reckon you could boost the popularity of ~ any policy with the UK public by adding the prefix “Australian style”.
Australian style national ID cards. Australian style pensions. Australian style healthcare system.
It’s sunnier and they’re better at sport so their policies must be better too.
Australian style national ID cards. Australian style pensions. Australian style healthcare system.
It’s sunnier and they’re better at sport so their policies must be better too.
October 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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'in a new collection of essays about the future of universities in the age of AI published on 16 October, Bagshaw says...“some of the skills, knowledge and processes held dear in universities are no longer as rare or precious as they once were”.' (Ant Bagshaw, Australian Policy Institute) 1/2
‘Painful job losses likely’ as AI fills university admin roles
Institutions should retrain staff affected now rather than ‘sustain jobs which machines can do better and cheaper’, expert argues
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
'in a new collection of essays about the future of universities in the age of AI published on 16 October, Bagshaw says...“some of the skills, knowledge and processes held dear in universities are no longer as rare or precious as they once were”.' (Ant Bagshaw, Australian Policy Institute) 1/2
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🧐 In case you have missed
@ausjpa.bsky.social's September Issue is out
With Australian roots, @ausjpa.bsky.social has an international standing & @ausjpa.bsky.social looks forward to receiving your excellent submissions from the #GlobalSouth and beyond 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678500...
@ausjpa.bsky.social's September Issue is out
With Australian roots, @ausjpa.bsky.social has an international standing & @ausjpa.bsky.social looks forward to receiving your excellent submissions from the #GlobalSouth and beyond 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678500...
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🧐 In case you have missed
@ausjpa.bsky.social's September Issue is out
With Australian roots, @ausjpa.bsky.social has an international standing & @ausjpa.bsky.social looks forward to receiving your excellent submissions from the #GlobalSouth and beyond 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678500...
@ausjpa.bsky.social's September Issue is out
With Australian roots, @ausjpa.bsky.social has an international standing & @ausjpa.bsky.social looks forward to receiving your excellent submissions from the #GlobalSouth and beyond 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678500...
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This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
October 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
Important read about community-led, anti-racism work.
Cos People Make Glasgow
Cos People Make Glasgow
‘Compassion is stronger than division’: Glasgow’s battle over the saltire
‘Compassion is stronger than division’: Glasgow’s battle over the saltire
Scotland’s national flag has become a flashpoint in a growing cultural battle linked to anti-immigration sentiment. In the racially diverse Springburn area of Glasgow, people fear a storm is gathering and refuse to let it pass unchallenged
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Important read about community-led, anti-racism work.
Cos People Make Glasgow
Cos People Make Glasgow
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🚨New paper: Australians want governments to help them adapt to AI — through training, support, and fairness. New Policy Studies paper with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/0144...
Policy interventions for the future of work: do Australians want government compensation, guidance, or investment to manage technological change?
This paper examines how Australian attitudes toward the future of work shape support for policy interventions, drawing on nationally representative survey data (n = 1,035). We focus on three dimens...
doi.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🚨New paper: Australians want governments to help them adapt to AI — through training, support, and fairness. New Policy Studies paper with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/0144...