In January this year, the PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group hosted its first-ever Mid-Career Mentoring (MCR) workshop funded by the PSA. We welcomed ten brilliant academics from across the UK and Europe, each at a pivotal stage of their careers...
Our friends at the British Academy have just made available a new ...
PSA Women and Politics Conference, June 17th/18th 2025 Hosted by the Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre at the University of Southampton
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This year’s PSA...
PSA RMI Political Studies Review Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics
Hosted by the Political Studies...
The first of the Diverse Voices workshop series for the 2024 cohort took place in November 2024. The half-day...
2 – 3 October 2025
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece
Keynote Speakers...
The role that education plays in shaping an individual’s political attitudes and behaviour is increasingly well-observed across established democracies, including in Great Britain (Apfeld et al., 2024). Graduate status divides British voters on issues (such as immigration) and has led to the...
Affective polarization, or dislike and distrust between partisans, is thought to stimulate engagement but harm political trust and commitment to democratic norms. However, recent experimental work has cast doubt on these findings. In this paper, we use longitudinal...