Ceri Fowler

Delighted to say I'm chairing a section at ECPG 2026 with @jess-smith.bsky.social @rosieshorrocks.bsky.social @gefjonoff.bsky.social and @liranharsgor.bsky.social on Elections, Parties, and Voters! Please send your abstracts in - full info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @ecprgender.bsky.social

DPIR seeks 2x Postdoc Research Fellows to work with Prof Petra Schleiter on the Trust, Participation, & Democratic Resilience project. CLOSES: Noon BST, 23 Oct.  PRF in Quantitative Political Science: https://tinyurl.com/mryzuddc PRF in Experimental Political Science: https://tinyurl.com/3re5yyu8

I think it is very good that the PM is being so publicly vulnerable about grieving his father. That is also a form of leadership

Call for contributions for an edited volume on Gender and Elections in Europe (from us @cerifowler.bsky.social @jess-smith.bsky.social @rosieshorrocks.bsky.social). Please submit suggested chapters to genelectnetwork@gmail.com . Deadline is 30th October!

Super excited to see the second article from my dissertation published in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social Drawing on unique Norwegian data, I find the green gender gap already exists in early adolescence. Boys are less climate-concerned, less supportive of green policies and less likely to vote green.

One of Truss's worst legacies is to give the lobby an obsession with small moves in gilt prices.

Also, from me and @profsob.bsky.social : new article at @electoralstudies.bsky.social is out! We argue that the material (safety/security) v postmaterial distinction between sets of values falls differently for women & minorities. We use the example of women to demonstrate how this skews measurement

Although Reform UK hold an 11pt lead among men, their support is much lower among women, among whom just 7pts separate first and fifth place Women Con: 21% Ref: 21% Lab: 18% Grn: 18% LD: 14% Rst: 3% Men Ref: 29% Lab: 18% Con: 18% Grn: 13% LD: 12% Rst: 5% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Labour is losing far more voters to the left than to the right

This defo wins today’s ’best worst take’ game

Please share the announcement that the 2026 F&M LGBTQI+ Global Batometer Perception Index Survey is now open. It measures perceptions of acceptance and discrimination of LGBTQI+ folk around the world. The more people who complete it, the better able we are to compare experiences across countries.

Will say that, anecdotally, it felt to me that Goodwin's history of misogynistic comments cut through in Gorton and Denton too. I remember hearing that there was a surprising amount of anti Goodwin content coming from usually non political personal Instagram accounts of young women.

Also, from me and @profsob.bsky.social : new article at @electoralstudies.bsky.social is out! We argue that the material (safety/security) v postmaterial distinction between sets of values falls differently for women & minorities. We use the example of women to demonstrate how this skews measurement

Some vg on the ground reporting of Makerfield, which tended to find Burnham outpolling Labour significantly, and especially with women (as polls, before inaccurate reweighted, showed). Overall, national media had skewed perceptions/expectations. Not realising X is a distorting mirror key to that

Had an amzing time at ECPG! @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprgender.bsky.social Lots of amazing panels in our section on Gender and Elections, fun discussing new papers on the youth gender gap, and presenting work on Gender and Non-Response. If you enjoyed the section check out @genelectnet.bsky.social !

If you’re at #ECPG26, then come along and watch my wonderful coauthors present our ongoing work on: (1) reviewing where we’re at with studying gender bias in candidate evaluations, (2) better understanding who says “don’t know” to survey questions 📈👭👩‍💻⁉️

Then @cerifowler.bsky.social is presenting our ongoing work on how survey non-response varies by what is being asked about, how we ask it, and who answers We find that who says DK, and to what/when, is very much non-random, which matters given we all tend to just drop the DKs from our analyses

A bit more from me on this here, especially the latter point! theconversation.com/could-womens... @theconversation.com

A few thoughts from me on gender, Reform, Labour, and the Makerfield by-election: theconversation.com/could-womens... @theconversation.com

I'm delighted to be co-editing a Research Topic in Frontiers in Political Science with Zoe Lefkofridi and Vera Beloshitzkaya on gender backlash, public opinion, and institutional responses in Europe. We're now inviting abstracts. Deadline: September 6. bit.ly/4uZeDGh

Some v. interesting patterns in our pre-2026 locals data e.g., the share of younger women saying they would vote Green appears considerably higher than the share reporting a Green vote in 2024. Lots more to dig into, but it's one of several changing dynamics on the left that we explore here 👇

The media & political classes (left + right) tend to guess wrong about the public - who have a *much* stronger common sense consensus on civic "inclusive nativism" than most of the commentariat seem to realise

New from me and @louiseluxton.bsky.social : a little taste of our new project/paper in development looking at splits on the left & gender. Big thanks to @psaepop.bsky.social for giving us the opportunity to collect some new data! @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-leftwing...

Key point! Senedd elections under the new system did not give a more proportional result.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 New Blog 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 A short piece on how the new Senedd voting system worked! How many votes did it take to win a seat? Was it proportional? Who benefitted? Where did parties win support? And what would it take to win one more seat? If you're interested: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal... 🧵👇

New piece from w/ @hannahbunting.bsky.social & @jess-smith.bsky.social on the Gorton & Denton byelection, and what it might tell us about British politics. We cover turnout, late-deciding voters, gender gaps & the continuing fragmentation of the party system 🧵 theconversation.com/late-decider...

Check out the post below by @philipjcowley.bsky.social, who’s written a great summary of ongoing work by me, @hannahbunting.bsky.social, @cerifowler.bsky.social, @jess-smith.bsky.social, and @annasanders.bsky.social on gender gaps in “don’t know” responses👇

🧵 Thread on new research on gender gaps in “don’t know” responses Some of you will know that my stellar coauthors @hannahbunting.bsky.social @cerifowler.bsky.social @jess-smith.bsky.social @annasanders.bsky.social & I have been working on a large-scale project on “don’t know” responses in surveys.

Deadline today!! :)

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

📣 Call for Papers: GenElect Annual Workshop on the Study of Gender and Elections University of Manchester, Jan 12th-13th 26 Deadline: 5th Dec 25 Send us your papers on gender and elections, public opinion, parties, representation! @psaepop.bsky.social Abstract submission here: lnkd.in/d2AQFYxN

A reminder to submit your abstracts! We'd love your papers on gender + candidates, vote choices, turnout, the role of feminist + LGBT issues, gender gaps etc.!

Is partner partisanship associated with vote choice? @cerifowler.bsky.social finds that it was for the 2016 Brexit Referendum & subsequent elections in the UK & argues that this can help us understand gender gaps in vote choice. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/eRDc16d @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky

A reminder to submit your abstracts! We'd love your papers on gender + candidates, vote choices, turnout, the role of feminist + LGBT issues, gender gaps etc.!

Submit your abstracts to our ECPG Section for Newcastle 2026 👇

🔔 Call for papers for ECPG 2026 is now open! 🔔 Submit your empirical gender & political communication papers/panels to our section by Nov 7th. Full info here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...