Emily Harmer
@harm365.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Media. Research/teach gender, media & political communication. (She/her). DigiPol: Centre for Digital Politics, Media and Democracy @digipol.bsky.social
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/emily-harmer
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Emily Harmer
@harm365.bsky.social
· Sep 19
It was a pleasure to formally launch the print version of electionanalysis.uk 2024 alongside a few of our brilliant contributors today!
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When benefits are denied by data not humans: In a botched 'crackdown' on benefit fraud, a woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never got on the plane had her child benefit stopped by the UK government - because she didn't 'return'. HMRC told her their records showed she had emigrated!
UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’
UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’
Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip
A woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never checked in or travelled has had her child benefit stopped by the UK government. Tax authorities told her their records showed she had emigrated.
Lisa Morris-Almond is one of thousands of people who have had their child benefit frozen as part of a botched crackdown on benefit fraud. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
When benefits are denied by data not humans: In a botched 'crackdown' on benefit fraud, a woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never got on the plane had her child benefit stopped by the UK government - because she didn't 'return'. HMRC told her their records showed she had emigrated!
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For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
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New publication from faculty members Dr. Rudi Palmieri and Dr. Ekaterina Balabanova!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Framing and Argumentative Strategies in Modern Slavery Statements: Debating Sustainability or Avoiding Responsibility?
This chapter develops an analysis of the linguistic content of modern slavery statements by UK-based businesses, which represent a genre of sustainability communication that has emerged in recent year...
link.springer.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New publication from faculty members Dr. Rudi Palmieri and Dr. Ekaterina Balabanova!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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If any Government can just snatch basic human rights away from any section of society when it pleases then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to change how judges interpret the European Convention on Human Rights – a move that risks weakening everyone’s protections.
The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.
WE MUST PROTECT IT
youtu.be/Lmad4kujRhQ?...
The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.
WE MUST PROTECT IT
youtu.be/Lmad4kujRhQ?...
🚨THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTS US ALL. WE MUST PROTECT IT
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 7:11 AM
If any Government can just snatch basic human rights away from any section of society when it pleases then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
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Why is @ucu.org.uk engaging in the very behaviour that we/it publicly call out when members’ employers employ such tactics?
It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU
It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage
Not in our name.
Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social
It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU
It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage
Not in our name.
Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social
Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how.
How would you react?
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...
How would you react?
uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...
September 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Why is @ucu.org.uk engaging in the very behaviour that we/it publicly call out when members’ employers employ such tactics?
It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU
It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage
Not in our name.
Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social
It is shameful. It undermines every branch of #UCU
It’s utterly destructive to staff morale and our branches’ leverage
Not in our name.
Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social
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Reminder! ⚠️ The deadline to submit your abstract and/or panel to our joint conference "Navigating Digital Democracy" with @psampg.bsky.social is fast approaching! ⌛ Full details on the CfP, with info on the topics for consideration, fees and prizes here 👉 www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...
September 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reminder! ⚠️ The deadline to submit your abstract and/or panel to our joint conference "Navigating Digital Democracy" with @psampg.bsky.social is fast approaching! ⌛ Full details on the CfP, with info on the topics for consideration, fees and prizes here 👉 www.bournemouth.ac.uk/navigating-d...
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🔴 NEW 🔴
Trump’s ambassador to the UK has hundreds of millions invested in the Big Tech companies that will benefit from this week's trade deal.
📝 @desmog.com story 👇
Trump’s ambassador to the UK has hundreds of millions invested in the Big Tech companies that will benefit from this week's trade deal.
📝 @desmog.com story 👇
Trump Ambassador’s Fortune Intertwined With Big Tech Trade Push
President Donald Trump’s UK ambassador holds investments in the companies set to develop flagship tech projects across the country. U.S. financial records show that Warren Stephens’ family-owned inves...
www.desmog.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🔴 NEW 🔴
Trump’s ambassador to the UK has hundreds of millions invested in the Big Tech companies that will benefit from this week's trade deal.
📝 @desmog.com story 👇
Trump’s ambassador to the UK has hundreds of millions invested in the Big Tech companies that will benefit from this week's trade deal.
📝 @desmog.com story 👇
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🌟Submissions open: "Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds" at ECPG 2026 🌟
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me
@ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me
@ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social
Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🌟Submissions open: "Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds" at ECPG 2026 🌟
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me
@ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me
@ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Dr Antje Glück and her co-authors for winning Journal Article of the Year at MeCCSA 2025 for their Journalism Studies article 'Fighting Against the Machine: Inside a Solutions Journalism Campaign in UK Local Newsrooms'.
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ant...
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ant...
#meccsa2025 | Dr Antje Glück
Very humbled to be awarded the best journal article of the year 2025 by #Meccsa2025 for "Fighting Against the Machine," an article having been a collaborative work with my fabulous COJO against COVID ...
www.linkedin.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Congratulations to Dr Antje Glück and her co-authors for winning Journal Article of the Year at MeCCSA 2025 for their Journalism Studies article 'Fighting Against the Machine: Inside a Solutions Journalism Campaign in UK Local Newsrooms'.
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ant...
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ant...
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We have an exhibition accompanying our events at the British Science Festival this weekend about the voyager space probes! It explores the ideas and legacy of the Voyager space probes. You can read more context (and view the exhibition!) here: digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager
Voyager
digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We have an exhibition accompanying our events at the British Science Festival this weekend about the voyager space probes! It explores the ideas and legacy of the Voyager space probes. You can read more context (and view the exhibition!) here: digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/voyager
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Actively resent the fact we’re expected to listen to a press conference on “mass deportations” as if this is a perfectly normal, mainstream thing and not the unhinged rantings of a racist who is somehow on my television.
August 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Actively resent the fact we’re expected to listen to a press conference on “mass deportations” as if this is a perfectly normal, mainstream thing and not the unhinged rantings of a racist who is somehow on my television.
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Did Tommy Robinson put together this lead story? Half the British press seems to actively want pogroms
August 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Did Tommy Robinson put together this lead story? Half the British press seems to actively want pogroms
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This Bloomsbury writing fellowship sounds great. It is 'open to UK-based, up-and-coming authors and researchers who identify as Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse (BAED)' with a 1 October deadline.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.
www.bloomsbury.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This Bloomsbury writing fellowship sounds great. It is 'open to UK-based, up-and-coming authors and researchers who identify as Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse (BAED)' with a 1 October deadline.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
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Far right groups are threatening to burn down hotels full of refugees at events attended by senior politicians, while people of colour live in fear after being falsely labelled as paedophiles
How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain's streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Far right groups are threatening to burn down hotels full of refugees at events attended by senior politicians, while people of colour live in fear after being falsely labelled as paedophiles
How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
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As asylum seekers are engulfed by slurs and lies, our leaders shrug. Truly, this is shameful | Frances Ryan
As asylum seekers are engulfed by slurs and lies, our leaders shrug. Truly, this is shameful | Frances Ryan
The narrative that they are a threat to women and girls has no basis in fact, but bad actors peddle it, and ministers encourage them, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
As asylum seekers are engulfed by slurs and lies, our leaders shrug. Truly, this is shameful | Frances Ryan
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🔴Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Their Data to ‘Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records
Age verification firms used by social media platforms include company tied to a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence ...
Age verification firms used by social media platforms include company tied to a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence ...
The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to 'Unregulated' Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records
The age verification services used by social media platforms include a company funded by a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence officers
bylinetimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🔴Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Their Data to ‘Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records
Age verification firms used by social media platforms include company tied to a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence ...
Age verification firms used by social media platforms include company tied to a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence ...
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📢 Please share with your networks and anyone you think might be interested! 📢 I'm looking for participants for my research project on young women's understanding of paid work on and through social media, including phenomena such as the #girlboss #corporatequeen or #lazygirljobs.
July 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📢 Please share with your networks and anyone you think might be interested! 📢 I'm looking for participants for my research project on young women's understanding of paid work on and through social media, including phenomena such as the #girlboss #corporatequeen or #lazygirljobs.
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Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban
Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban
Huda Ammori argued that home secretary’s decision to proscribe group under terrorism laws was ‘abuse of power’
The co-founder of Palestine Action can bring a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the direct action group under anti-terrorism laws, a high court judge has ruled.
Lawyers for Huda Ammori argued at a hearing in London last week that the proscription of Palestine Action, placing it on a par with groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban
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📣 Working on tech, journalism and politics. Making sense of the implications of tectonic changes?
Submit to our @digitaljournalism.bsky.social special issue
Info: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...
🗓️ Abstracts: September 15
@curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social
Submit to our @digitaljournalism.bsky.social special issue
Info: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...
🗓️ Abstracts: September 15
@curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
📣 Working on tech, journalism and politics. Making sense of the implications of tectonic changes?
Submit to our @digitaljournalism.bsky.social special issue
Info: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...
🗓️ Abstracts: September 15
@curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social
Submit to our @digitaljournalism.bsky.social special issue
Info: drive.google.com/file/d/182p3...
🗓️ Abstracts: September 15
@curdknupfer.bsky.social @lenafrescamente.bsky.social @gehrke.bsky.social
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Disabled people’s orgs have told the Guardian that plans to exempt only existing claimants from the cuts will create a “two-tier” benefit system that “condemns” future disabled people to poverty. As one said, “Is it even legal?”
My story on the fallout: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My story on the fallout: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Worse than anything under the Tories’: changes to welfare bill anger disability campaigners
Government concessions fail to appease disabled people’s groups, concerned that disabled people in the future will be condemned to poverty
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Disabled people’s orgs have told the Guardian that plans to exempt only existing claimants from the cuts will create a “two-tier” benefit system that “condemns” future disabled people to poverty. As one said, “Is it even legal?”
My story on the fallout: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My story on the fallout: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Ahead of a crucial vote on cuts to disability benefits, our new evidence casts doubt on whether jobs are even available for disabled people facing cuts 📢
The analysis found that the parts of the country among the hardest hit by the cuts have fewer job opportunities 1/3
The analysis found that the parts of the country among the hardest hit by the cuts have fewer job opportunities 1/3
June 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Ahead of a crucial vote on cuts to disability benefits, our new evidence casts doubt on whether jobs are even available for disabled people facing cuts 📢
The analysis found that the parts of the country among the hardest hit by the cuts have fewer job opportunities 1/3
The analysis found that the parts of the country among the hardest hit by the cuts have fewer job opportunities 1/3
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39 lecturers at Liverpool Hope face redundancy.
“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.
#StopTheCuts #UCU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.
#StopTheCuts #UCU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Liverpool Hope University cuts 'devastating' for its reputation - BBC News
Liverpool Hope University says it is planning cuts "to ensure financial and academic stability".
www.bbc.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
39 lecturers at Liverpool Hope face redundancy.
“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.
#StopTheCuts #UCU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.
#StopTheCuts #UCU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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#Dreamteam 😍
Yesterday @digipol.bsky.social hosted the launch of the Online Safety Toolkit - a training resource for all those working in politics and how to stay safe online.
Make sure to check it out here: saferpolitics.org
Yesterday @digipol.bsky.social hosted the launch of the Online Safety Toolkit - a training resource for all those working in politics and how to stay safe online.
Make sure to check it out here: saferpolitics.org
June 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#Dreamteam 😍
Yesterday @digipol.bsky.social hosted the launch of the Online Safety Toolkit - a training resource for all those working in politics and how to stay safe online.
Make sure to check it out here: saferpolitics.org
Yesterday @digipol.bsky.social hosted the launch of the Online Safety Toolkit - a training resource for all those working in politics and how to stay safe online.
Make sure to check it out here: saferpolitics.org
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NEWS I Launched today in the @sotauol.bsky.social library, a vital new online safety resource for political parties and their communications teams. Read more ⬇️
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/09/u...
@digipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social @local.gov.uk
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/09/u...
@digipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social @local.gov.uk
June 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
NEWS I Launched today in the @sotauol.bsky.social library, a vital new online safety resource for political parties and their communications teams. Read more ⬇️
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/09/u...
@digipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social @local.gov.uk
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/06/09/u...
@digipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social @local.gov.uk
Yesterday we launched our SaferPolitics toolkit and training resources which are designed to support politicians and their staff with online safety based on research by @rosalynd.bsky.social & I. Find out more 👇
saferpolitics.org
@digipol.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social
saferpolitics.org
@digipol.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Yesterday we launched our SaferPolitics toolkit and training resources which are designed to support politicians and their staff with online safety based on research by @rosalynd.bsky.social & I. Find out more 👇
saferpolitics.org
@digipol.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social
saferpolitics.org
@digipol.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social