Somehow managed to summarise my entire PhD thesis on the growing UK voting age gap in 1000 words for the The Political Studies Association blog. Give it a read! ⬇️

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Many congratulations to RHUL Politics and IR alumna Dr Laura Serra for winning the The Political Studies Association McDougall Tust 2024 prize!! Chris Hanretty Oliver Heath

If you work on autocracies or regime change, join the new PSA specialist group for a great research community!

***Truss bottom, Thatcher top, in new league table of PMs***🧵

Last summer, I organised another RHUL Politics and IR group project that surveyed MPs about postwar PMs (Attlee to Truss). It was a follow-up to 2013 survey: doi.org/10.1111/1467-9… 1/9

Chinese translation of our work on the electoral politics of health in India Lokniti-CSDS Oliver Heath Centre for Social and Economic Progress King's India Institute

With immense humility, I inform about passing of my PhD viva today. I thank my both external examiners Andrew Wyatt and Raphael Susewind for going through the thesis with surgeon’s precision. They appreciated strength of the thesis and pointed out weaknesses for corrections.

Thanks…

The reawakening of the class division: people are more aware of class inequalities in Britain. Our latest report paints a different picture of class in modern Britain to what is often depicted. Oliver Heath #BritishSocialAttitudes #Inequality

Exclusive! More Brits identify as working-class now than they did in the Eighties. My piece based on new British Social Attitudes survey findings shared with the The New Statesman:

newstatesman.com/politics/socie…

Prof. Oliver Heath ( Oliver Heath ) & Prof. Louise Tillin ( Louise Tillin ) assess whether health impacts voting decisions. Published in The Hindu

You can access the article here:-
epaper.thehindu.com/reader

Is Health an electoral priority in India?

Very interesting report by Lokniti-CSDS at IIC Today

The report is based on a survey of 1500+ voters across 6 states

Join us for the launch of a survey report on Health and Democracy in India: Is Health an electoral priority? The event will include a presentation of the survey findings and discussion with an eminent panel: Reetika Khera, Sujatha Rao and Abhay Shukla

Weds Feb 22nd, IIC Delhi

Happy to share the publication of 'Candidate selection in India: municipal elections and the BJP' at Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, it will be of interest to scholars working on party politics and party nomination contests where reliable information is difficult to access:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Hello ! We,UvA Amsterdam Royal Holloway Panteion University Uniwersytet Jagielloński & Universität Wien, are pleased to announce a new MarieSkłodowskaCurie Doctoral Network, bringing together political science, psychology & neuroscience to study the development of the political self in adolescence. Follow us !

For those left #onhere , in honor of #ElectionDay , a short 🧵 about a forthcoming American Political Science Review article w/ Amanda Clayton & Diana O'Brien about how threatening women's reproductive rights ⬆️ women's desire to run for office. We call it '♀️ Grab Back.' 1/ 4

भारत में पार्टी प्राथमिकताएं और रणनीतिक मतदान- Oliver Heath (@RoyalHolloway), @AdamZiegfeld (@TempleUniv)
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Rishi Sunak has become the first British Asian Prime Minister

Let’s take stock of the representation of ethnic minorities in the House of Commons 🧵

Many shades in political life of Mulayam Singh Yadav

His politics offers us both, optimism about India's democracy project, as well as despair at where it failed. I write on #MulayamSingh --

hindustantimes.com/india-news/mul…

I write about Mulayam Singh Yadav's legacy in this obituary. He was the quintessential politician, one who was identified by a generic yet unmistakable nickname: Netaji. m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-com…

Much speculation about who’s in #TheQueue and why, but little evidence. That is, until a doughty band of Government @ Essex researchers began a survey (using the kinds of methods developed for studying protests). Survey ongoing but here are snippets based on the first 300 responses.

Job: postdoc!

S/he'll be working on the 🇪🇺 #ERC (European Research Council (ERC)) Consolidator Grant project 'New parties on the news' @RHULPIR, London.
See newnewsproject.com.
Together we'll form a team of 10 from 🇮🇩🇷🇴🇮🇳🇳🇱🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿& 🇮🇹.

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