🚧 A series of roadblocks have prevented the UK electric vehicle industry from building momentum.

🚗 How can we move the EV transition through the gears?

📈 Dr James Jackson of UoMPolitics makes policy proposals to accelerate the EV transition:

blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/01/…

We are delighted to announce the winners of our ECSRGs and Learning and Teaching Small Grants! 🎉

- Saba Joshi (@UniYorkPolitics)
- Samah Rafiq (@warstudies)
- Suwita Hani Randhawa (@UWEPoliticsIR)
- Lama Tawakkol • لما توكل (@UoMPolitics)
- Norma Rossi

Read more here: bisa.ac.uk/news/bisa-memb…

📑 MCI Director, Peter Gries, was quoted in a recent #iNews article on #Hong #Kong 's new security law and its consequences.🇭🇰

💬 'The broad scope of the bill will likely have a further chilling effect on any political dissent', he argues. Read more.⬇️
inews.co.uk/news/world/hon…

'While Galloway’s success is impressive on paper, the circumstances are a one-off.'

📊 Rob Ford analyses the Rochdale by-election result, suggesting that it is far from certain Galloway will hold the seat or build on this success in other contests.

ukandeu.ac.uk/the-rochdale-b…

Looks like this Handbook on degrowth edited by Kai Heron and lauren eastwood is out. very pleased to have a chapter on cultural political economy in it. degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Excited to have Vicente Valentim a PPRF of my Alma matter Nuffield College present his research at UoMPolitics!

It should be a great presentation.

This was a very important and engaging talk on genocide from a politico-legal perspective - thank you so much for sharing your work with us, Dr Hawraman Ali UoM Law UoMPolitics

Thanks to Rosalind Shorrocks UoMPolitics for her excellent talk on the modern gender gap & politics. This weeks British Politics Election seminar is with Rob Johns University of Southampton on #ScottishIndependence Fri 23 Feb at 3.30pm bit.ly/42Hlo25 Nuffield College University of Oxford

🚧 A series of roadblocks have prevented the UK electric vehicle industry from building momentum.

🚗 How can we move the EV transition through the gears?

📈 Dr James Jackson of UoMPolitics makes policy proposals to accelerate the EV transition:

blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/01/…

📢 Join our in-person talk on the semiotic heritage of #Muslim #communities in #China , with Dr Ibrar Bhatt and Heng Wang from Queen's University Belfast 🎓, moderated by Dr David Stroup.

🗓️ Tuesday, 20 Feb;
⏰ 5:00-6:30 pm;
🏛️ Oddfellows Hall;

🔗 Free tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/796066134237…

EVENT ALERT!

Political Violence + Transnational Activism WG are hosting a #online event:

'Conducting fieldwork in challenging environments: Insights from research in China'

Incl. David Stroup, Dr Rodríguez-Merino + David Tobin!

16 Feb
Register: bisa.ac.uk/members/workin…

Just published! My new article is out today in Eur Jnl Int Sec (open access)

'From negative to positive internationalised
protection: Attenuated solidarity and the practice
of refugee protection'

tinyurl.com/yc767n3c

#refugees #r2p #asylum #ProtectionOfCivilians

Have been thinking about this for a while. The troubling origins of british climate policy in Thatcher's assault on coal miners and the 1984-5 strike. Thanks to The Ecologist for publishing. theecologist.org/2024/feb/12/un…

📊 We have a new paper Research & Politics.

Key point: LLMs perform almost as well as trained humans at coding open text (here the most important political issue). But they cost a lot less and are faster. They also out-perform prevailing supervised methods too.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Political polarization is fuelling the rise of mega-perspectives, further weakening democracy by undermining its diversity writes Jonathan Benson of UoMPolitics bit.ly/3uFD8Oq

Thank you Prof Alison Young Faculty of Law for an excellent talk on British democracy & the constitution. This week's British Politics Election seminar is with Rosalind Shorrocks UoMPolitics on the modern gender gap & politics bit.ly/3UBQVk3 Nuffield College University of Oxford

Enter our 2024 Micropoetry competition for your chance to win up to £500!

Pen a piece about 200 years of creativity, focus on Manchester’s past, present or future and submit your entry. For all the details, visit uom.link/micropoem24

Considering a Masters or PhD? Find out what postgrad opportunities are on offer at a number of top universities + how to secure your place on them

Discuss your options, get funding advice + find out what Masters and PhD study is really like

Register now: findamasters.com/events/postgra…

🚨 New Event Alert 🚨

Looking forward to our first public talk of 2024.

🔗 Details & Register via …ital-humanitarianism.eventbrite.co.uk

🚧 A series of roadblocks have prevented the UK electric vehicle industry from building momentum.

🚗 How can we move the EV transition through the gears?

📈 Dr James Jackson of UoMPolitics makes policy proposals to accelerate the EV transition:

blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/01/…