Associate Professor in Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures at Southampton University.
Visiting Professor at Democratic Innovations Research Unit, Frankfurt University.
https://rikkidean.com/
Rikki Dean
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🎟️ Registration for FIDE Forum 2026 is open!
Because this is a truly participatory forum, you don't just attend—you shape the agenda. Alongside general registration, we have also launched two Open Calls for both workshops and training sessions.
Get involved👇
www.fidemocracy.org/europe-forum...
Do citizens adhere to deliberative principles when they talk politics? And is there such a thing as a deliberative citizen? Find out in our new paper @pvs-journal.bsky.social!
We’re a (relatively) small but mighty department with lots of exciting things to share on many different topics at this year’s inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social
You can check out the 13 papers from my @sotonpolitics.bsky.social colleagues (& collaborators) here đź‘€
Finally, Jennifer Forestal's macro-level systemic theoretical piece is a call to action for pol comm scholars to conduct more empirically precise and explicitly normative multi-platform studies. She identifies two key methodological challenges and provide critical suggestions for overcoming them.
The latest policy report from INSPIRE unveils how creative participatory methods can transform youth voices into powerful agents of change in addressing youth employment in the West Midlands and the UK.
Access the full report here: bit.ly/Therealities...
#INSPIRE #YouthParticipation
📢 Open positions!
I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻
3–4 years + strong support for training🎒
Deadline: 23 June 2026
More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
FIDE - Europe
We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply!
👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello
Planning to design and analyse a survey despite not having taken a class like mine below on Designing & Analysing Surveys? You’re the social science equivalent of those people who need rescuing by helicopter from Snowdon having gone up in flip flops with only a light sweater and a bag of Maltesers.
📢 We are hiring!
2 postdoctoral researchers at the University of Girona on:
🔹 Participatory Constitution-Making
🔹 Direct Democracy, Constitutional Change & Recall
đź“… Deadline: 11 June 2026
⏳ Up to 4 years
Please share widely!
popgovproject.wordpress.com/postdoc-posi...
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026
jobbnorge.no
INSPIRE
Despite agreement that political communication research should move beyond single-platform studies, there is no existing consensus on precisely how to do so. What does it mean to study social media...
POPGOV will recruit several postdoctoral researchers to be based at the four host institutions (Girona, KCL, LSE, UCLouvain). University of Girona is recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers: Deadline…
What predicts citizens' stances towards deliberative core principles in political talks and do true deliberative citizens exist?
Find out in a new open access paper by RĂĽdiger Schmitt-Beck and @cschnaudt.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s11615-026-00666-6
NEW -
Governance Values in Social and Political Belief Systems - https://cup.org/4fSfzaz
"...results suggest that orientations towards transparency can be most strongly influenced by other beliefs..."
- @tonybertelli.bsky.social, Silvia Cannas & Marika Danielle Csapo
#OpenAccess
One week until @epssnet.bsky.social #epss2026! We have 12 colleagues attending and sharing new work in areas including democratic innovations, class, urban/rural divides, gender, political behaviour, redistribution and spending, and more. We're also a friendly and social bunch, so come and say hi!
Yanina Welp
Check out the sequence of courses for survey research at @essexsummerschool.bsky.social, from questionnaire design and measurement to survey experiments and advanced scaling methods.
More information ➡️ essexsummerschool.com/course/ess-2... and individual descriptions in the comments to the post ⬇️
Politische Vierteljahresschrift
Politics at Southampton
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
