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Politics at Southampton @sotonpolitics.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Check out what our @gain-centre.bsky.social has been up to in its first full year as it sets the agenda on understandings about gender and inequalities!

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A year of building community, advancing research, and driving conversations on gender and inequalities. Our 2025–26 annual newsletter is now available, reflecting on GAIN's first full year at Southampton. Thank you for being part of it! Read it here: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/2026/06...

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GAIN Annual Newsletter 2025–26 – Gender and Inequalities Research Centre, University of Southampton

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Delighted to support ‘A New Woman Leader?’ A workshop convened by @jennpiscopo.bsky.social and our own @jess-smith.bsky.social. Today, Dr Smith presented a systematic review of voter bias towards women candidates, sparking discussion on gender, leadership and political representation.

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Dr Smith presenting her systematic review of voter bias towards women candidates

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We welcomed @johannarickne.bsky.social alongside @sotonecon.bsky.social last week to discuss how people differentiate and understand stories of sexual harassment. In a large scale study in Norway, Rickne and coauthors find that the story matters in how people “accept” and “reject” information.

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Photo shows a picture of Professor Rickne in front of a presentation slide presenting elements of a survey experiment.

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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Today we welcomed @johannarickne.bsky.social (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social) on Stories about Sexual Harassment: Information Rejection and Recall - why people fail to recognise it as wrongful and implications for prevention. Thanks to @gain-centre.bsky.social for supporting this event. #GenderEconomics

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Happening today! @johannarickne.bsky.social presents a study of ~25k Norwegians, which finds people are less likely to recognise sexual harassment when stories are framed as “accusations,” involve male victims, or describe verbal rather than physical behaviour. Join us in Bldg 100 Room 8011

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📢 Join our next seminar at the University of Southampton with Professor Johanna Rickne (SOFI, Stockholm University), whose research explores gender inequality, labour economics, political representation, and diversity in politics & the workplace. 🗓 11 May 2026 ⏰ 1–2.15 pm 📍 Building 100, Room 8011

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Lastly, we had @emiliabelknap.bsky.social present on how to conduct feminist focus groups with a particular focus on how to encourage collective meaning making. She outlined how to use an intersectional lens to consider consider power hierarchies in focus groups. Then, a Q&A session with our panel!

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Next we have Dr Matthew Hunt discussing sociolinguistics and contextual expectations - about how categories of people of different ages, genders and ethnicities are expected to behave in a particular frame.

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Professor Silke Roth of Sociology @silkeroth.bsky.social kicks off our Spring Into Methods event discusses coalition building as a strategy to achieve intersectionality and her long career in applying intersectional approaches to gender and inequality research.

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Join us tomorrow at our Spring Into Methods event, where we discuss how intersectionality can frame methods in gender research. PGRs and PhDs are very welcome! www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new... CW: Dr Hunt's talk will include a brief discussion of domestic abuse.

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Join us for our Spring Into Methods event! How does intersectionality frame methods in Gender Research? PGRs and PhDs are encouraged to attend. Thursday, March 5, 2026 from 14:30-16:00 (building details below!) Speakers include @emiliabelknap.bsky.social @silkeroth.bsky.social and Dr Matthew Hunt

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Emilia Y Belknap @emiliabelknap.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Delighted to share my first single-authored article, now published in Parliamentary Affairs: “Targeting the cereal woman: Campaigns, gender & Scottish independence” 🆓 Open access: tinyurl.com/85cxsefm @hansardsociety.bsky.social @academic.oup.com #GenderPolitics #BritishPolitics (🧵👇)

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Targeting the cereal woman: Campaigns, gender, and Scottish independence

Abstract. How do political campaigns construct and mobilize voter identities in high-stakes constitutional contests? This article examines the 2014 Scottis

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Ceri Fowler @cerifowler.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

A reminder to get your abstracts in by December 5th. Any aspect of gender, elections, public opinion, parties, candidates etc. very welcome! @uompols.bsky.social @psaepop.bsky.social

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We are still accepting proposals! Please forward to any PhD, PostDoc, or Early Career Researchers you think may be interested in presenting their work on gender and/or inequalities! 🌟👇

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

📢 CFP for: GAIN Gender and Inequalities Workshop — Tue 9 Dec, 10–12, Bldg 100/7013. A supportive space for PhD & Postdoc in the School of Economic, Social and Political Science to share work-in-progress & get feedback. Submit title + 250-word abstract to GAIN@soton.ac.uk by 14 Nov 2025.

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Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law @scclaw.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Call for papers is still open for our workshop New Technology, AI and Equality 15 April 2026. #equality #law #ai @unisouthampton.bsky.social @gain-centre.bsky.social @sotonphilosophy.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social www.southampton.ac.uk/law/news/eve...

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Today is the day! Join us at 10:00 a.m. to discuss applying for funding in Gender and Inequalities at the University of Southampton. Building 100 in Room 8013 on Highfield Campus. We have ☕ coffee, tea 🍵, and pastries 🥐🍩! www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...

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The Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event

Are you interested in applying for funding in Gender and Inequalities? We want to hear from you!

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

An inconvenient truth. @turnbulldugarte.com and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social puncture a pervasive myth. ‬ "Among young respondents aged 18-25, a very comfortable majority of women reject Reform UK (75%), and a similarly large majority of men in the same age group share the same view (71%)."

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Most British young men reject the far right - UK in a changing Europe

Emilia Belknap and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte explain their analysis on the demographics of Reform UK voters in the UK. They argue that while the dominant narrative is that young men are the most likely ...

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Join us in one ☝️ week for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collab event! 🏫 We are looking at fostering collaboration across the university for those interested in researching gender and inequalities! 📚 ✏️ www.southampton.ac.uk/politics/new...

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The Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event

Are you interested in applying for funding in Gender and Inequalities? We want to hear from you!

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at gain@soton.ac.uk so that we can get an idea of numbers!

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Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law @scclaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Call for abstracts is now open for our workshop on AI and Equality 15 April 2026 in collaboration with the @unisouthampton.bsky.social Law School's Law and Technology Centre. #AI #equality #law #workshop #conference

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📝On our blog, we reflect on the @psawomenpol.bsky.social y.social annual conference we hosted here at @unisouthampton.bsky.social ! We were delighted to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who study gender and inequalities. generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/2025/07...

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Reflections from the PSA Women & Politics Annual Conference 2025 – Gender and Inequalities Research Centre, University of Southampton

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Fiona Buckley @fionamaybuckley.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Thanks to @psawomenpol.bsky.social & @gain-centre.bsky.social for hosting a fab conference this week in @unisouthampton.bsky.social with excellent research, examining women, gender & politics. @jess-smith.bsky.social @elizabethjevans.bsky.social @emiliabelknap.bsky.social #LeahMcCabe #Southampton

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Dr Caroline Leicht @carolineleicht.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It was fantastic to return to Southampton this week for the @psawomenpol.bsky.social @gain-centre.bsky.social conference. Always such a joy to be with this group of brilliant & supportive friends & colleagues ☀️ Thank you to the organizing team for a great conference & for bringing us all together!

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Event alert 🔔 organised by PhD Students at Uni of Winchester‼️ Gender and Agency Conference at the University of Winchester - Tuesday 24th of June 📝 Sign up form is here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

We would like to thank all of the attendees to our Troubled Times? conference; especially our presenters! Missed our conference? 📝That's okay! We had live bsky updates so you can catch up on all the research and presenters we hosted with @psawomenpol.bsky.social ! Day 1 thread is below here 👇

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Our amazing panellists from our Feminist Histories, Nationalisms and Global Crises panel close with questions from the audience! 💪 ✏️📚

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Lastly, but certainly not least we have Melanie Dietz from Goethe Uni Frankfurt am Main who asks: Different Colors of the Same Rainbow? 🌈 Melanie analyses 📊 ideological polarisation and the social structure of gender issues!

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PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group @psawomenpol.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The last panel of the day on 'Feminist Histories, Nationalisms and Global Crises' getting under way!

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Next, we welcome @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social from Uni of Bath who presents her work on feminist foreign policy 🌎 and the crisis of liberal international order. She explores the transition of the F-word (feminism) from some policy adoption to active rejection. What does the term feminism mean?

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Our last panel of the day is commenced by Dr Maki Kimura from UCL on religious, nationalism, militarism & gender inequality! Maki was part of a research network “Transforming Values: gender, religiosities & secularities across the globe” (2018-2022) & highlights moving from binaries. @ucl.ac.uk

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We were delighted to see Yvonne and Fiona win the @psawomenpol.bsky.social Lifetime Achievement Award! So well deserved! We were inspired by celebrating these two trailblazers and hear their perspective on the past, present and future of studying gender and politics.

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We closed our first day of our conference 🙌 with an In Conversation event celebrating the careers of Professor Fiona Mackay and Yvonne Galligan. 📖📚 Fiona and Yvonne led us down the “winding path” of their academic careers and offered their wisdom on feminist leadership and making space. 🎤

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Panellists receive questions from the audience closing out our first panel of the day! An excellent and interesting panel

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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Closing this panel, @fionamaybuckley.bsky.social from Uni College Cork presents research with Prof Yvonne Galligan (Tech Uni Dublin) on party candidate strategy in the context of legislative gender quotas by assessing women’s electoral performance at the 2024 Irish 🇮🇪 general election 🗳️

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