Centre for Democratic Futures

Strengthening sex and gender integration in health research 📚

Imperial has launched a CPD on Integrating Sex and Gender in Health Research and Policy. Prof Claire Clarkin, Biology @unisouthampton.bsky.social, contributes a session from our Bias in Bones work 🌍

🔗 buff.ly/0wDM8MM

John Hansard Gallery | What's on | Open Call: Creative Conceptions Creative Conceptions, led by the University of Southampton, is a partnership built around the voices of local women with past or current pregnancy experience. UK maternal and neonatal outcomes are wor...

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY! 👀
Calling Hampshire & Isle of Wight artists!
Join Creative Conceptions, a @unisouthampton.bsky.social project focusing on the voices of women of Black and South Asian background in pregnancy care. More information and how to apply here >>> jhg.art/events/open-... #OpenCall

Brilliant PhD project developing novel technologies for UTI treatment 🔬🦠🧫 31k pa enhanced stipend! 💵 Oct 2026 start Apply now 📝 👇🏼@unisouthampton.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #womenshealth #healthequity

Democratic Innovations as Feminist Publics: Principles and Infrastructures European Consortium for Political Research

CfP: Democratic Innovations as Feminist Publics: Principles and Infrastructures.

Get your papers in for this ECPR Joint Sessions workshop, led by our co-director Zohreh Khoban and Olive Mendoza, a collaboration that emerged from our symposium last summer. ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #polisky

The Algorithmic Hand: Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, and Collective Action at Scale. Check out this new policy paper from our visiting fellow Tiago Peixoto. eprints.soton.ac.uk/506915/ #polisky

Democratic Innovations as Feminist Publics: Principles and Infrastructures European Consortium for Political Research

CfP: Democratic Innovations as Feminist Publics: Principles and Infrastructures.

Get your papers in for this ECPR Joint Sessions workshop, led by our co-director Zohreh Khoban and Olive Mendoza, a collaboration that emerged from our symposium last summer. ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #polisky

The Algorithmic Hand: Artificial Intelligence, Democracy, and Collective Action at Scale. Check out this new policy paper from our visiting fellow Tiago Peixoto. eprints.soton.ac.uk/506915/ #polisky

Help Shape Inclusive Musculoskeletal (MSK) Research: Volunteer Resource Curator Wanted Bring data scientists and interdisciplinary musculoskeletal experts together to tackle health inequity for the benefit of the wider community.As people live longer, musculoskeletal (MSK) disease and i...

Great opportunity for musculoskeletal researchers!! Help us grow more inclusive research across regenerative medicine, prosthetics, epidemiology, preclinical research, clinical trials & global health 🦴🏃‍♂️🌎 Grow your profile, networks & have real impact! Apply now 👇 #Dsxhe #datascience #FortisNet

Super excited to share the launch of a new book series: Contemporary Debates on Gender and Media with @uexeterpress.bsky.social which I am coediting with @krossings.bsky.social
Details here: www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/...

Soton beans project with Professor Mark Chapman

We are very excited to be part of #Pride 🏳️‍🌈 this weekend @SouthamptonGuildhall Sat 23rd Sun 24th August! Learn all about our #sotonbeans 🫘🫛 ☀️research @unisouthampton.bsky.social @rsb.org.uk Have fun play games & take a plant home 🌿 #citizenscience sign up below 2 👇 #sotonpride #scienceforall

Fantastic day yesterday first in series of #inyourbones workshops coproducing policy info & educational resources 4 skeletal health with local communities. Part science 🔬🧑‍🔬 part art 🎭 🎨 @artcareuk.bsky.social
Gr8 timing with call 4 evidence in mens health now open 👇 👇🎉
www.gov.uk/government/c...

Can, and should, the principles of deliberative democracy be applied to how global citizens’ assemblies are organised?

This week, @rikkidean.bsky.social, @melross.bsky.social and Flynn Devine tackle questions of values and practice in Research x Practice Exchange #2

➡️ glocan.org/wp-content/u...

Helpful new GlobCit report on the global state of citizenship: globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...

Women and Politics | The Political Studies Association (PSA) Troubled Times: Gender and Politics in the 21st CenturyPSA Women and Politics Conference, June 17th/18th 2025Hosted by the Gender and Inequalities (GAIN) Centre at the University of Southampton…

*PSA EVENT* 🚨 Tomorrow is our PSA Women & Politics 2025 conference: Troubled Times: #Gender & #Politics in the 21st Century. Organised by @psawomenpol.bsky.social.
📆 17 - 18 June. At the Gender & Inequalities (GAIN) Centre, Southampton.
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We're excited that it is now less than a month until our symposium 'Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary'.

With a keynote from Ariana Markowitz, ‘Now you see it: Using art to practise democracy amid violence’.

You can still register for free at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cdf-sympos...

“Prioritizing inclusivity in research will broaden our understanding of AD/ADRD, leading to greater awareness, earlier and more accurate diagnosis, and ultimately to equitable treatments and interventions that benefit all communities” I say BRAVO to this, refreshing to see this clarity&commitment

Join us at @cdfuos.bsky.social for a two-day conference on Reimagining Democratic Politics in the Contemporary, 3-4 July.

Free to register. Just sign up here: www.southampton.ac.uk/cdf/news/eve...

Musculoskeletal Health Theme Webinar: Dr Lucy Gates and Ms Awa Touray | DSxHE Integrating traditional healing with modern health care for more equitable fracture care pathways in The Gambia

Next #DSxHE MSK seminar #FortisNet 7th July 4pm GMT
Dr Lucy Gates and Awa Touray @unisouthampton.bsky.social - Equitable Fracture Care Pathways in The Gambia #healthequity #fracture 🦴 🇬🇲
Register now! 👇

www.datascienceforhealthequity.com/event-detail...

Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK Health inequity at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK Health inequity at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD opportunity 👇Precision Wearables for Female Forces: Advancing Performance to Address MSK health inequity @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social & Prof Kai Yang @winchesterschoolofart @unisouthampton.bsky.social Apply now ✍️ rolling deadline start Oct 25
cidns-cdt.ac.uk

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

You can join us for:

🧠 Mixed methods training
📝 Qualitative training
📊 Quantitative training

See how 👇

Check out this qualitative methods workshop from our colleagues @polethnography.bsky.social. Get your proposals in by 30 May.

#polisky @sotonpolitics.bsky.social

Radical reforms to reduce migration Britain's failed immigration system will be radically reformed so the system is controlled, managed and fair under a landmark White Paper.

Tomorrow there's a big White Paper on immigration (www.gov.uk/government/n...). Whatever else it does, it's bound to refuel Labour’s internal debate about net migration -- a debate full of assumptions about public opinion. Strap in for a long thread about a survey testing some of those assumptions.

Scottish Election Study annual lecture 2025 We welcome Professor Jane Green to give the annual lecture for the Scottish Election Study

This year's Scottish Election Study Annual Lecture, delivered by our outstanding colleague and @britishelectionstudy.com Co-Director @profjanegreen.bsky.social, will take place a week on Monday in Edinburgh! 👩🏼‍🏫

Details and sign up below 🔽

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-e...

Dying Matters 2025 | μ-VIS X-ray Imaging Centre (muvis) We’re proud to be part of #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek 2025 at University Hospital Southampton NHS FT. On 6 May, our 3D X-ray Histology team, and the Biomedical Imaging Unit will be joining forces wit...

First post on an initiative that means a lot to our team!

We’re proud to be part of #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek 2025 at @uhsft.bsky.social

www.linkedin.com/posts/muvisx...

@uosmedia.bsky.social @biu-em.bsky.social @hospiceuk.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Come and join us for a free summer school 🌞🌞🌞

very much looking forward to this (virtual!) event with @hertieschool.bsky.social and Columbia World Projects, where i'll be talking how to design & govern digital platforms to promote democratic practice, incl. new thoughts on things like decentralized platforms/protocols & crowdsourced moderation!

Just a few days left to apply for this postdoc position and come and join me at @sotonpolitics.bsky.social & @cdfuos.bsky.social.

*The deadline is the 28th*
(not the 30th as I wrongly stated in the original post).

With thanks to @melross.bsky.social for becoming unofficial project photographer.

Rebooting Democracy welcomed international guests and collaborators to a project workshop last week in Southampton. Sessions focused on climate democracy, using AI in deliberation, political behaviour, co-production, and democratic oversight of emerging technologies.
www.rebootingdemocracy.ac.uk

On the left is the book cover for Empathy and Political Reasoning. On the right is headshots of Lala Muradova and the three discussants and date and time of the event.

Join us for the launch of Lala Muradova's (@lalamur.bsky.social) new book in the Cambridge Elements series, Empathy and Political Reasoning.

With star discussants Florian Foos, Tereza Capellos and Konstantinos Katsikopoulous.

7 May, 12pm UK.

Register at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...