Jo Shaw
@joshaw.bsky.social
Head of @uoelawschool.bsky.social. Gen Sec (elect) Royal Society of Edinburgh (01.04.25). Law (esp EU). Citizenship. Sea swimming. Photos. Books. Gardening. Landscapes. Tain / Edinburgh
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Jo Shaw
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· Jan 20
We are delighted to share that Global Constitutionalism is now based at the University of Edinburgh, supported by Edinburgh Law School and the School of Social and Political Sciences.
The journal publishes cutting-edge articles that advance global constitutionalism.
Read more: edin.ac/4g6NybZ
The journal publishes cutting-edge articles that advance global constitutionalism.
Read more: edin.ac/4g6NybZ
You'll find here a few more details about the journal Global Constitutionalism @globcon.bsky.social, which is now based at Edinburgh Law School and Politics and International Relations. Delighted to be working closely with colleagues on this. Please send us your manuscripts!
Are you a PhD or early career researcher in EU law and politics? Come to the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh to give a paper at our PhD/ECR Workshop on the topic of "Defending the European Union". Dates: 23-24 April 2026. Details here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Are you a PhD or early career researcher in EU law and politics? Come to the Europa Institute of the University of Edinburgh to give a paper at our PhD/ECR Workshop on the topic of "Defending the European Union". Dates: 23-24 April 2026. Details here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The Edinburgh Europa Institute has just put out a call for papers for its annual PhD/ECR Workshop, which will take place in April 2026. The theme for this year is ‘Defending the Union’ and the deadline to submit your abstract is Jan 30th. You can find more details below- feel free to share/repost!
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The Edinburgh Europa Institute has just put out a call for papers for its annual PhD/ECR Workshop, which will take place in April 2026. The theme for this year is ‘Defending the Union’ and the deadline to submit your abstract is Jan 30th. You can find more details below- feel free to share/repost!
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Attended a book launch @iashedinburgh.bsky.social for this beauty last night ...
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[Dangerous] Women who Dared
Earlier this year, IASH blogged about an exciting book that Ben Fletcher-Watson and Jo Shaw would soon be releasing. And yesterday, I attended its launch – the third book of the Dangerous Wo…
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November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Attended a book launch @iashedinburgh.bsky.social for this beauty last night ...
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Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026.
Closing Date: 30 January 2026
✔️Covers full fees (EU and Non-EU)
✔️Provides a living stipend of €25,000 per year for up to four years
✔️Is open to EU and non-EU applicants
👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
Closing Date: 30 January 2026
✔️Covers full fees (EU and Non-EU)
✔️Provides a living stipend of €25,000 per year for up to four years
✔️Is open to EU and non-EU applicants
👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026.
Closing Date: 30 January 2026
✔️Covers full fees (EU and Non-EU)
✔️Provides a living stipend of €25,000 per year for up to four years
✔️Is open to EU and non-EU applicants
👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
Closing Date: 30 January 2026
✔️Covers full fees (EU and Non-EU)
✔️Provides a living stipend of €25,000 per year for up to four years
✔️Is open to EU and non-EU applicants
👇
www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
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It is indeed very sad news. And although Edinburgh and Scotland was the place where David was most active in recent years, for more than 50 years he has been a leading thinker, writer, and activist on a European stage. In @socialeurope.bsky.social @europeanmovement.co.uk & elsewhere. A true European
That is such sad news. David has been a wise presence in Edinburgh for many years. Condolences to family and friends.
it is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of David Hume Institute trustee, David Gow. Our thoughts are with his wife and family.
November 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It is indeed very sad news. And although Edinburgh and Scotland was the place where David was most active in recent years, for more than 50 years he has been a leading thinker, writer, and activist on a European stage. In @socialeurope.bsky.social @europeanmovement.co.uk & elsewhere. A true European
That is such sad news. David has been a wise presence in Edinburgh for many years. Condolences to family and friends.
it is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of David Hume Institute trustee, David Gow. Our thoughts are with his wife and family.
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
That is such sad news. David has been a wise presence in Edinburgh for many years. Condolences to family and friends.
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This is not a good look for the Lib Dems. I speak as a 70 year old who has voted Lib/ LD the vast majority of my life
The assumption that asylum seekers are criminals and not to be trusted is wrong. The underlying xenophobia doesn't reflect well
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
The assumption that asylum seekers are criminals and not to be trusted is wrong. The underlying xenophobia doesn't reflect well
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
This is not a good look for the Lib Dems. I speak as a 70 year old who has voted Lib/ LD the vast majority of my life
The assumption that asylum seekers are criminals and not to be trusted is wrong. The underlying xenophobia doesn't reflect well
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
The assumption that asylum seekers are criminals and not to be trusted is wrong. The underlying xenophobia doesn't reflect well
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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Calling all early-career #Citizenship researchers 📣
Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆
The ❓ How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship?
🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖
➡️ tinyurl.com/bde6wn9w
Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆
The ❓ How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship?
🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖
➡️ tinyurl.com/bde6wn9w
October 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Calling all early-career #Citizenship researchers 📣
Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆
The ❓ How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship?
🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖
➡️ tinyurl.com/bde6wn9w
Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆
The ❓ How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship?
🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖
➡️ tinyurl.com/bde6wn9w
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How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship?
If you have some original thoughts on this intriguing question, participate in this year‘s @globalcit.bsky.social Rainer Bauböck Essay Award!
Check out further details ⬇️
If you have some original thoughts on this intriguing question, participate in this year‘s @globalcit.bsky.social Rainer Bauböck Essay Award!
Check out further details ⬇️
Calling all early-career #Citizenship researchers 📣
Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆
The ❓ How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship?
🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖
➡️ tinyurl.com/bde6wn9w
Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆
The ❓ How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship?
🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖
➡️ tinyurl.com/bde6wn9w
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship?
If you have some original thoughts on this intriguing question, participate in this year‘s @globalcit.bsky.social Rainer Bauböck Essay Award!
Check out further details ⬇️
If you have some original thoughts on this intriguing question, participate in this year‘s @globalcit.bsky.social Rainer Bauböck Essay Award!
Check out further details ⬇️
Not minor, really.
Incredibly minor point in the grand scheme of the horror of this policy, but this would mean that many women with ILR would be unable to go on maternity leave unless they had a very high salary or an amazing employer package.
The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
October 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Not minor, really.
Only 5?
October 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Only 5?
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Alongside the @royalsociety.org, @raeng.org.uk, @acmedsci.bsky.social we have opened applications for the latest round of the Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration scheme. Funded by DSIT, the programme supports UK researchers in engaging with Horizon Europe. Learn more: bit.ly/42tplbM
October 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Alongside the @royalsociety.org, @raeng.org.uk, @acmedsci.bsky.social we have opened applications for the latest round of the Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration scheme. Funded by DSIT, the programme supports UK researchers in engaging with Horizon Europe. Learn more: bit.ly/42tplbM
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Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...
Women Who Dared
Women Who Dared
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September 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...
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A brand new essay collection, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social, edited by @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social & @joshaw.bsky.social foreword by @sarasheridan.bsky.social
Join the book launch on Tue, 4 Nov 17:30
📍@iashedinburgh.bsky.social
Free 🎟️(in person & online)👇womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk
Join the book launch on Tue, 4 Nov 17:30
📍@iashedinburgh.bsky.social
Free 🎟️(in person & online)👇womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A brand new essay collection, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social, edited by @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social & @joshaw.bsky.social foreword by @sarasheridan.bsky.social
Join the book launch on Tue, 4 Nov 17:30
📍@iashedinburgh.bsky.social
Free 🎟️(in person & online)👇womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk
Join the book launch on Tue, 4 Nov 17:30
📍@iashedinburgh.bsky.social
Free 🎟️(in person & online)👇womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk
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Tue 4 Nov, 17:30 - "Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten" from @edinburghup.bsky.social. Edited by @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social & @joshaw.bsky.social with a foreword by @sarasheridan.bsky.social
Free tickets: womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk (in person and online)
Free tickets: womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk (in person and online)
Book Launch: "Women Who Dared: from the infamous to the forgotten"
Join us to mark the publication of our latest essay collection, exploring women's stories throughout history.
womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Tue 4 Nov, 17:30 - "Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten" from @edinburghup.bsky.social. Edited by @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social & @joshaw.bsky.social with a foreword by @sarasheridan.bsky.social
Free tickets: womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk (in person and online)
Free tickets: womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk (in person and online)
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Category capped at 40k visas a year. This will probably create backlogs and processing delays for aliens who actually have extraordinary ability
So they found a legal workaround for the “Gold Card” - anyone who donates a million bucks automatically qualifies as an “alien of extraordinary ability”. Totally absurd but probably will stick. No one will have standing to challenge.
The Gold Card
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
September 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Category capped at 40k visas a year. This will probably create backlogs and processing delays for aliens who actually have extraordinary ability
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Good 🧵 by @jdzankic.bsky.social on the problematic 'gold card' in the US.
I’ve been waiting for this since February, and it is quite a bit of an anticlimax. See 🧵 for a few thoughts on the #goldcard, #residence, #US
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The Gold Card
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
September 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Good 🧵 by @jdzankic.bsky.social on the problematic 'gold card' in the US.
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I’ve been waiting for this since February, and it is quite a bit of an anticlimax. See 🧵 for a few thoughts on the #goldcard, #residence, #US
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The Gold Card
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I’ve been waiting for this since February, and it is quite a bit of an anticlimax. See 🧵 for a few thoughts on the #goldcard, #residence, #US
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Delighted to have coordinated this book symposium, showcasing Engin Isin's important contribution to citizenship studies and citizenship theory. Thank you to all the reviewers!
📢 New Book Review Symposium 📚
Engin Isin’s Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law explores the paradox of human vs citizenship rights & asks if a planetary citizenship can emerge 🤔
Isin reflects on 35 years of struggles, rights, and paradoxes shaping modern citizenship
🔗 tinyurl.com/yed9efba
Engin Isin’s Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law explores the paradox of human vs citizenship rights & asks if a planetary citizenship can emerge 🤔
Isin reflects on 35 years of struggles, rights, and paradoxes shaping modern citizenship
🔗 tinyurl.com/yed9efba
globalcit.eu
September 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Delighted to have coordinated this book symposium, showcasing Engin Isin's important contribution to citizenship studies and citizenship theory. Thank you to all the reviewers!
What on earth is a "pause" when timescales remain the same? This is very difficult to understand as it stands.
🚨BREAKING🚨
Patrick Vallance announces three-month pause in REF.
Science minister announces hiatus but says results for next Research Excellence Framework still on track for 2029.
Free to read:
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Patrick Vallance announces three-month pause in REF.
Science minister announces hiatus but says results for next Research Excellence Framework still on track for 2029.
Free to read:
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Vallance announces three-month pause in REF - Research Professional News
Science minister announces hiatus but says results still on track for 2029
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
What on earth is a "pause" when timescales remain the same? This is very difficult to understand as it stands.
Very very excited to see this out!
Look what arrived in the EUP office today! We're so excited to be holding these books in our hands! 😍
Meet the women who dared to defy the status quo in Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten. Haven't pre-ordered yet? There's still time! 👉 edin.ac/3DZZC1L
@iashedinburgh.bsky.social
Meet the women who dared to defy the status quo in Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten. Haven't pre-ordered yet? There's still time! 👉 edin.ac/3DZZC1L
@iashedinburgh.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Very very excited to see this out!
I find this action by the Council to be highly antisocial.
The benches at the Kirkgate in Leith have been removed.
Has a crime been committed 🤔
Has a crime been committed 🤔
August 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I find this action by the Council to be highly antisocial.
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Having researched #Vote16 for 13 years, knowing the evidence and, crucially, meeting so many fantastic young people, I am very happy that #VotesAt16 will become reality across the UK! I hope that our research (@chuebner.bsky.social) has been useful to some.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election
16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in all elections as part of changes including easier voter registration and a crackdown on foreign interference
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Having researched #Vote16 for 13 years, knowing the evidence and, crucially, meeting so many fantastic young people, I am very happy that #VotesAt16 will become reality across the UK! I hope that our research (@chuebner.bsky.social) has been useful to some.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The voting age will be lowered to 16 for all UK elections as part of an overhaul of the country’s voting system https://on.ft.com/4lznJVv
July 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The voting age will be lowered to 16 for all UK elections as part of an overhaul of the country’s voting system https://on.ft.com/4lznJVv