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Diana Bartmann defends her PhD thesis on accountability for legislative conduct at Westminster between 1995 and 2019

Jen Piscopo featured on MSNBC explaining why the USA hasn’t elected a female president.

Giacomo Benedetto is hosting events for sixth formers and our own students on the 2024 EP elections

DEC team members were out in force at the 2024 EPOP conference in Manchester, presenting eight different papers!

Giacomo presented work with David Moloney on EU budgets at the 2024 UACES conference in Trento.

Chris Prosser will be providing off-screen analysis for ITV’s coverage of the 2024 UK general election.

Jennifer Piscopo comments on the Mexican presidential election in WaPo, NYT, CNN and ITV

Guidance for councillors and candidates on safer canvassing written by DEC members

Tom Barton defends his PhD thesis on voter identification laws

New interactive allowing you to compare MPs on the economic left-right dimension

Oliver Heath is in Delhi to discuss health as an electoral priority

Laura Serra defends her PhD thesis on age and vote choice.

Michael Bankole joints the Democracy and Elections Centre.

Giacomo is hosting an event on the Italian election

DEC alumnus Dishil Shrimankar gets a permanent position at the University of Manchester

Sofia participated in an expert meeting organized the by OSCE on Addressing Violence against Women in Politics

Kaat presented at a Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences workshop on political socialization

Royal Holloway came second in the REF2021 rankings for politics and international relations

Ursula was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the project Polarized Politics: How Legislators and Judges Do Battle

Kaat participated in a CÉCD/CSDC podcast on determinants of turnout

James wrote a blog-post for the Conservation on young people and climate change

Olli was awarded a British Academy small grant for the project ‘Democracy and Health in India: Voter Expectation Survey’

Dishil was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship starting from October 2020.

Sofia helped the Local Government Association develop resources for local councillors facing online abuse