And yesterday we wrapped it up! A group photo (without @andreavik.bsky.social 😭).

Thanks to all the attendees for a valuable and rewarding few days.

Hopefully see you next year?

Second (and final) day of our first PAIR methods summer school on democratic health and discontent.

Pictured: @robjohns75.bsky.social on `Understanding the Threat to Democracy: Survey & Experimental Designs' (the quant stream!) and Rod Rhodes on `Fieldwork with elites' (the qual stream!).

Several colleagues are going to be in Madrid next week for the European Political Science Association, presenting research on party decision-making, attitudes towards minorities, populism, gender, social media, acccents and class, urban-rural divides, the politics of dating, and more! #EPSA2025

❗ FREE Summer School on 'Declining democratic health: Methods for diagnosis, treatment, and recovery' with us!

🗓️ June 23-24

📍 Southampton

More details: www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/news/...

The paper is the second highest output from @bjpols.bsky.social in terms of its 'the quality and quantity of online attention' it has received ✅

@unisouthampton.bsky.social @stevewilliamsuk.bsky.social

Our recent research has been widely covered in the media, including the Independent, Standard, and Daily Mail

Coverage 👇

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

www.standard.co.uk/news/science...

www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/art...

Paper 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yesterday we kicked off our weekly Department seminar with Tania Burchardt (LSE) on richness, insecurity, and the welfare state.

Our line-up until Easter 👇💯

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from us. 🎄

Here's a picture from our Christmas dinner 👇

This week we launched our Latin American initiative in the Department!

We are a group of scholars working in a diverse range of topics and using distinct methodologies. We are deeply interested in the region and are looking to strengthen our work to become a point of reference in the field. 📚

An important success story from the Department this week, with a large project recognised for its impact across Latin America 👏

Our excellent department seminar series starts this week, featuring, amongst others @fgenovese.bsky.social
and @anjaneundorf.bsky.social 🙌 👇

This week we start with our semester's seminar series - along with our excellent internal speakers we also have
Nick Maple, Tim Bale, Laura Amantini, Swati Srivastava, Sanne van Oosten, and Federica Genovese visiting us over the next three months!

We were very happy to welcome Moritz Marbach (UCL) to our department seminar yesterday, presenting on housing and integration of Ukrainian refugees 👇👏 Thanks for joining us.

We were delighted to welcome Ana Weeks to our Department Seminar to present her excellent work on the consequences of the gendered mental load for political interest and participation👏👇

Yesterday we were delighted to welcome
@williamlallen.bsky.social to our weekly Department seminar, presenting on trust and immigration preferences in Columbia and Peru 👇👏

And finally - welcome to our taught postgraduate students! An action shot of our Head of Department Pía Riggirozzi introducing the Department.

Have a brilliant year!

Fantastic to welcome all our new students across our programmes and joint honours - welcome to Southampton!

We're hiring across all levels and fields in Polisky. Multiple positions available at each level.

Apply 👇

Lecturer: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Associate: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Prof: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...