Marc Geddes
@marcgeddes.uk
Political scientist mostly based at the University of Edinburgh and sometimes found at the Institute for Parliamentary Research in Berlin.
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🎉 Many congratulations to @saradybesland.bsky.social for winning Best Paper Prize at the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference 2025! Her paper is entitled "Misrepresented or Miss Represented?" focusing on gender and policy responsiveness, praised for its contribution and creativity! Well done! 🥳
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🎉 Many congratulations to @saradybesland.bsky.social for winning Best Paper Prize at the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference 2025! Her paper is entitled "Misrepresented or Miss Represented?" focusing on gender and policy responsiveness, praised for its contribution and creativity! Well done! 🥳
I was honoured to sit alongside such an esteemed panel of experts - @conunitucl.bsky.social's Director, Meg Russell, and @stephenholdenbates.bsky.social - to give evidence to the Procedure Committee on electing chairs to select committees: committees.parliament.uk/event/25243/...
22 October 2025 - Elections within the House of Commons - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
14:30 - Room 16, Palace of Westminster
committees.parliament.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I was honoured to sit alongside such an esteemed panel of experts - @conunitucl.bsky.social's Director, Meg Russell, and @stephenholdenbates.bsky.social - to give evidence to the Procedure Committee on electing chairs to select committees: committees.parliament.uk/event/25243/...
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Our Director, Meg Russell, gave oral evidence to @commonsproccom.parliament.uk yesterday with @marcgeddes.uk and @stephenholdenbates.bsky.social.
She was positive about select committee chair elections, but highlighted problems with select committee member elections.
Find out more 👇
She was positive about select committee chair elections, but highlighted problems with select committee member elections.
Find out more 👇
Meg Russell discusses select committee chair and member elections before the Procedure Committee
In front of the Procedure Committee, the Director of the Constitution Unit was positive about select committee chair elections, but highlighted problems with select committee member elections.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our Director, Meg Russell, gave oral evidence to @commonsproccom.parliament.uk yesterday with @marcgeddes.uk and @stephenholdenbates.bsky.social.
She was positive about select committee chair elections, but highlighted problems with select committee member elections.
Find out more 👇
She was positive about select committee chair elections, but highlighted problems with select committee member elections.
Find out more 👇
Discussing 50 years of Spanish democracy featuring @edinburghpir.bsky.social’s @oliverescobar.bsky.social! Really interesting themes around change and continuity
October 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Discussing 50 years of Spanish democracy featuring @edinburghpir.bsky.social’s @oliverescobar.bsky.social! Really interesting themes around change and continuity
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Excellent job opportunity in the SPARK project👇
🚨 Job Opportunity! 🚨 Applications are now open for a new 2.5-year postdoc at @edinburghpir.bsky.social to examine how parliaments gather, analyse and use different types of knowledge - see the full job listing here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (SPARK)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with experience in the politics of the UK, Scottish, German or Bavarian parliaments to join the UKRI-funded research project, ‘Studying Parliaments an...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Excellent job opportunity in the SPARK project👇
🚨 Job Opportunity! 🚨 Applications are now open for a new 2.5-year postdoc at @edinburghpir.bsky.social to examine how parliaments gather, analyse and use different types of knowledge - see the full job listing here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (SPARK)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with experience in the politics of the UK, Scottish, German or Bavarian parliaments to join the UKRI-funded research project, ‘Studying Parliaments an...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🚨 Job Opportunity! 🚨 Applications are now open for a new 2.5-year postdoc at @edinburghpir.bsky.social to examine how parliaments gather, analyse and use different types of knowledge - see the full job listing here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
It was fascinating to listen to this lecture in the Scottish Parliament yesterday evening and grateful for the @studyofparl.bsky.social hosting the annual lecture in Scotland! Link to recording below - well worth listening for anybody interested in British politics
A huge thank you to Professor Sir John Curtice for delivering last night’s Michael Ryle Lecture on the theme of “Can Britain’s Two Party System Survive?” 👏
September 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
It was fascinating to listen to this lecture in the Scottish Parliament yesterday evening and grateful for the @studyofparl.bsky.social hosting the annual lecture in Scotland! Link to recording below - well worth listening for anybody interested in British politics
Made it to #ecprgc25! Beautiful location amongst great discussions in the @sgparliaments.bsky.social panels! Looking forward to catching up with the SG on Knowledge and Governance later too!
August 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Made it to #ecprgc25! Beautiful location amongst great discussions in the @sgparliaments.bsky.social panels! Looking forward to catching up with the SG on Knowledge and Governance later too!
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👋🏻 Welcome to those attending the ECPR General Conference #ecprgr25! Our section this year is action-packed with panels every day of the conference - here is an outline of what to expect:
August 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
👋🏻 Welcome to those attending the ECPR General Conference #ecprgr25! Our section this year is action-packed with panels every day of the conference - here is an outline of what to expect:
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This moment never ceases to excite. Out in shops on 9 Sept...
August 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This moment never ceases to excite. Out in shops on 9 Sept...
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The UK government proposes to lower the voting age to 16 #vote16 This is a landmark moment for all the young people (+ some older ones) who campaigned for this for years. It's been a privilege to work & do research with young people on #VotesAt16 in Scotland and Wales www.jrrt.org.uk/evidence-and...
July 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The UK government proposes to lower the voting age to 16 #vote16 This is a landmark moment for all the young people (+ some older ones) who campaigned for this for years. It's been a privilege to work & do research with young people on #VotesAt16 in Scotland and Wales www.jrrt.org.uk/evidence-and...
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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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For folks newly interested in 16 year olds voting can I recommend years of scholarship by @eichhornjan.bsky.social in Scottish setting
Also, in 2014 indyref the risk survey showed youngest members of electorate were our ideal deliberative citizens, most open minded in their info sources
Also, in 2014 indyref the risk survey showed youngest members of electorate were our ideal deliberative citizens, most open minded in their info sources
July 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
For folks newly interested in 16 year olds voting can I recommend years of scholarship by @eichhornjan.bsky.social in Scottish setting
Also, in 2014 indyref the risk survey showed youngest members of electorate were our ideal deliberative citizens, most open minded in their info sources
Also, in 2014 indyref the risk survey showed youngest members of electorate were our ideal deliberative citizens, most open minded in their info sources
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I was interviewed on Today in Parliament on Radio 4 on Friday, discussing how the assisted dying bill might fare in the House of Lords.
Listen here (around 7 mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Listen here (around 7 mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
July 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I was interviewed on Today in Parliament on Radio 4 on Friday, discussing how the assisted dying bill might fare in the House of Lords.
Listen here (around 7 mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Listen here (around 7 mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Congratulations to all our Politics and International Relations (and dual Honours) graduates! It was great to celebrate with you!
July 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Congratulations to all our Politics and International Relations (and dual Honours) graduates! It was great to celebrate with you!
It’s been a while since I visited a new one… #lovinglegislatures
July 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It’s been a while since I visited a new one… #lovinglegislatures
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Our 2pm panels will focus on accountability, youth representation, the role of the opposition and moral/religious issues in parliaments #sgop25
July 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Our 2pm panels will focus on accountability, youth representation, the role of the opposition and moral/religious issues in parliaments #sgop25
Months of planning finally coming to fruition and so excited for all the discussions from tomorrow onwards about all things parliaments 🥰 #sgop25
Our 9th ECPR Parliaments Conference begins tomorrow! We hope all participants are arriving or have arrived safely! 🥳 #sgop25
July 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Months of planning finally coming to fruition and so excited for all the discussions from tomorrow onwards about all things parliaments 🥰 #sgop25
This was only 9 months ago:
Me, in the i...
link.news.inews.co.uk/view/5fd23df...
link.news.inews.co.uk/view/5fd23df...
July 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This was only 9 months ago:
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Quite a statement from the author of the last govt review on post-18 education
“The sector is going through emergency redundancy programme[s] that proper planning could have avoided...the governance errors in the [2010s] have led to the problems in the 20s”
Interview by @fionamcintyre.bsky.social
“The sector is going through emergency redundancy programme[s] that proper planning could have avoided...the governance errors in the [2010s] have led to the problems in the 20s”
Interview by @fionamcintyre.bsky.social
Better governance ‘could have avoided mass university job cuts’.
Philip Augar proposes union representation on governing boards and vice-chancellor pay reforms.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Philip Augar proposes union representation on governing boards and vice-chancellor pay reforms.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
June 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Quite a statement from the author of the last govt review on post-18 education
“The sector is going through emergency redundancy programme[s] that proper planning could have avoided...the governance errors in the [2010s] have led to the problems in the 20s”
Interview by @fionamcintyre.bsky.social
“The sector is going through emergency redundancy programme[s] that proper planning could have avoided...the governance errors in the [2010s] have led to the problems in the 20s”
Interview by @fionamcintyre.bsky.social
I disabled all my news alerts after I got some inconsequential “breaking” story about some celebrity from three news apps www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Rise in ‘alert fatigue’ risks phone users disabling news notifications, study finds
Publishers could see audiences uninstall apps, as some users receive up to 50 alerts a day, analysis shows
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I disabled all my news alerts after I got some inconsequential “breaking” story about some celebrity from three news apps www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Is Kemi Badenoch getting worse? She’s been so absent, her #r4today interview is the first I’ve heard in a long time and it was … not good.
June 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Is Kemi Badenoch getting worse? She’s been so absent, her #r4today interview is the first I’ve heard in a long time and it was … not good.
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You know that pasta sauce Galaxy + Gemini ad? It demonstrates something interesting about AI: it is an excellent illustration of the risk of "problem orphaning" with AI. A short thread 1/7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8W-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8W-...
Recipe ideas | Galaxy S25 Ultra | Samsung
YouTube video by Samsung
www.youtube.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
You know that pasta sauce Galaxy + Gemini ad? It demonstrates something interesting about AI: it is an excellent illustration of the risk of "problem orphaning" with AI. A short thread 1/7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8W-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8W-...
The first 20-25min of this committee hearing are worth watching in full: www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...
June 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The first 20-25min of this committee hearing are worth watching in full: www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/educ...