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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Come study Stirling's Master of Public Policy (MPP) with me in September!

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Centre on Constitutional Change @ccc-research.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

New publication! Devolution has reshaped how Scotland is governed. Yet power and prosperity have become ever more concentrated in and around Edinburgh. Our new report makes the case for a distinctive Scottish approach for reform to rebalance central–local relations. Read more: edin.ac/3JonpLb

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Great North 10k ✅ A bit proud of myself, but far more proud of @everebecca.bsky.social, who went on her first ever outdoor run of any distance about 6 weeks ago.

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

River Cart looking beautiful and inviting today @glasgowcitycouncil.bsky.social

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Davide Vampa @davidevampa.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Great workshop yesterday at @ccc-research.bsky.social – we explored how strengths/limitations of English devolution might inform local/regional reform in Scotland. Thanks to all who joined, esp. @ariannagiovannini.bsky.social @paulanderson88.bsky.social & @sekip.bsky.social! @uoe-sps.bsky.social

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Dash @dashmundosky.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This podcast is genuinely extraordinary in exposing police practice in the UK around domestic abuse internally, i can't remember something quite so open about how broken the internal systems with the police are with actual testimony from people who've been a part of it.

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Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

🚨ICYMI I’ve spent months talking to policewomen abused by fellow officers about how their partners used police training and authority to facilitate abuse - and how their own forces closed ranks when they asked for help. Read: observer.co.uk/news/nationa... Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5j5L...

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‘Staying silent is no longer an option’: female police of...

When a domestic abuser is also a fellow police officer, victims have been subjected to further trauma as forces close ranks against them. Now survivors a...

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Wife guy post: Eve has worked on this story for months, and done so with more journalistic integrity, kindness, and skill than I’ve ever seen. It is an exceptional piece of work and deserves the widest audience. Please read, listen, and share.

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Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🧵 In February, I got a message from Anna*, a female police officer. She was a domestic abuse specialist, responding daily to calls from women abused by their partners. But she was also in an abusive marriage herself, for more than a decade - and her abuser was another officer.

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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Latest issue out now! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1467923x... With John Connolly David Judge Matt Flinders; @sekip.bsky.social; @jimtomlinson45.bsky.social; Andrés Velasco @dbrieba.bsky.social; Coree Brown Swan @paulanderson88.bsky.social Judith Sijstermans; Stewart Lansley; Tom Wraight Kai Green

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The Political Quarterly: Vol 96, No 2

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

For most of this year, I’ve been working on one story - and I’m so excited for it to finally be out in the world. Observer subscribers can listen now to the podcast version. Throughout this week, the rest of you will be able to listen and read the story too. Watch this space 🔍

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Hi @firstbus.bsky.social - what’s the logic behind a 15 minute bus from the airport to Glasgow city centre costing £11? Cheers.

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Final day at @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions in beautiful Prague, where @mesarovicha.bsky.social and I co-chaired a workshop on radical right populism and public policy. Heard some great papers and met some excellent people.

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I refuse to believe there’s a funnier animal on God’s green earth than this thing

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Booking a meal in restaurant by email, I accidentally request a table for "approximately 2 hours and 3 minutes".

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Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Every year thousands of workers come from overseas to pick fruit and veg on UK farms. But an organisation who supports them says they’re not being paid for all the hours they work - and payslips they shared with me show the same. My story in tomorrow’s Observer www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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‘Exploited’ migrant farm workers in UK paid for picks, not hours

Call for investigation into unfair payment for labourers on seasonal visa scheme

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Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

EXC: “There’s a significant risk… [coercive control] will play a part in some cases of assisted dying” In tomorrow’s Observer, domestic abuse experts told me victims had been ignored in the assisted dying bill which could be “misused as a tool for femicide”: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Domestic violence victims must be included in the assisted dying debate, campaigners say

Charities warn of ‘significant risk’ that victims of coercive control could be put under pressure to end their lives under assisted dying legislation

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Thought this might hand dispense Tennent’s

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Marlene Jugl @marlenejugl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Had a great time in beautiful Padova last week discussing the state of public administration research and the role of administrative capacities with a stellar group of international colleagues. So many interesting perspectives and new research avenues ✨

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I love crap English language business names in non-English speaking countries. I walked past somewhere called “Hurt Me, Baby” in Padua yesterday.

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I will stop going on about this soon, but, the call for papers have been extended until this evening. Please do stick in a paper if you're minded to do so. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Resharing this introduction in light of a load of brilliant new followers. PRs/campaigners/charities etc, send me your stories! Editors please commission me! Everyone else let’s be friends! 🙏🙏

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I am in beautiful Padua for the CAPIS conference on public administration reform and administrative capacity.

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Researching populist governance in action? There is still, just, time to put in a paper for this workshop with Researching populist governance in action? There is still, just, time to put in a paper for this workshop with @mesarovicha.bsky.social ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

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Learning to Walk the Walk: Populists, Public Policy, and Transnational Diffusion

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I have many new followers (thanks!). @mesarovicha.bsky.social and I are running this workshop at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions in Prague and we’d love you to submit your paper. Yes, yours! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

ecpr.eu

Learning to Walk the Walk: Populists, Public Policy, and Transnational Diffusion

European Consortium for Political Research

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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Learning to Walk the Walk: Populists, Public Policy, and Transnational Diffusion

European Consortium for Political Research

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Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A starter pack of academics (mostly political scientists and political historians) I found on here who (broadly) work in the British Politics subfield. Please (self) recommend others I’ve missed. go.bsky.app/EqXUQbt

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Everyone follow @everebecca.bsky.social - she is incredulous that I am a much much bigger deal than her on here x

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Interested in the intersection of populism and public policy? This ECPR Joint Sessions workshop in Prague next May might be for you. Drop me a line if any questions ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

ecpr.eu

Learning to Walk the Walk: Populists, Public Policy, and Transnational Diffusion

European Consortium for Political Research

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Interested in the intersection of populism and public policy? This ECPR Joint Sessions workshop in Prague next May might be for you. Drop me a line if any questions ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

ecpr.eu

Learning to Walk the Walk: Populists, Public Policy, and Transnational Diffusion

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Partly inspired by Raygun (!), I am considering writing an autoethnographic paper on the topic of my experience working in Parliament over a decade ago, reappraised in the light of subsequently gained knowledge and expertise as a public policy scholar. Be honest, is this a shit idea?

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Man, these kids aren't going to know what's hit 'em.

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Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

I haven't logged on here for months. Is it any good, yet?

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Paul Cairney @paulcairney.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Politics and Policymaking in the UK: a full set of blog posts to accompany our book paulcairney.wordpress.com/policymaking... @sekip.bsky.social promises to add his podcasts once he's completed his residency at the Conservatoire

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Politics and Policymaking in the UK: additional resources This page provides additional blog posts and podcasts for Politics and Policymaking in the UK. A post and podcast for each book chapter (in pr...

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

An instant classic

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