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Rebecca Tapscott
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Senior Lecturer in IR, University of Glasgow. Studying political violence, authoritarianism, research ethics governance (IRBs!) and Uganda. Also reviews editor at Civil Wars.
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Join us on Thursday @africamultiple.bsky.social
@terrefebiruk.bsky.social
@benjaminkirby.bsky.social

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November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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ecpr.bsky.social
📣 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝

⚙️ #ecprjs26 Call for Papers buff.ly/oKqKLsj

• Receive in-depth feedback
• Build lasting scholarly networks

✔️ 35 confirmed Workshops buff.ly/mXDmfPt
📍 7–10 April, University of Innsbruck
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#cfp #PoliSky
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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benjaminfaude.bsky.social
Excited to announce that, together with @yoramhaftel.bsky.social, I am co-organising the workshop 'Global Governance in Times of Disruption' at next year's @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions of Workshops.

Details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Join us in Innsbruck to discuss this crucial topic!
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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3 PhD scholarship in digital war studies, University of Edinburgh:
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WARSHARE PhD Scholarships | School of Social and Political Science
Applications for the 3 PhD scholarships close at 23:59 GMT on Thursday 11th December 2025. Late applications cannot be accepted.Following a European Advanced Grant Award funded by UKRI to Professor An...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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civilwarsjournal.bsky.social
Our brilliant Reviews Editors @drincon.bsky.social and @rtapscott.bsky.social are seeking expressions of interest for the journal's revamped reviews section. We look forward to seeing exciting and creative proposals! www-tandfonline-com.brad.idm.oclc.org/action/autho...
September 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social -

Ethical Considerations for SoTL Research in Political Science Education - cup.org/4mBpnGq

"Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)"

- @jeremymoulton.bsky.social ‬& @rtapscott.bsky.social

#FirstView
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August 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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ashesterinina.bsky.social
Thanks to the @civilwarpaths.bsky.social research team for your contributions & @filippodionigi.bsky.social @rtapscott.bsky.social @marniehowlett.bsky.social for bringing this Forum together!
#UKRIFLF
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July 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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filippodionigi.bsky.social
📢 Forum written together with:
➡️ @marniehowlett.bsky.social
➡️@rtapscott.bsky.social
➡️@grace-akello.bsky.social
➡️Mousumi Mukherjee
➡️Natalia Otrishcenko
➡️Anastasia Shesterinina

📑Rethinking Ethics Review for International Relations Research
@ispjournal.bsky.social

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Forum: Rethinking Ethics Review for International Relations Research
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May 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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polethnography.bsky.social
🗓️🔔 CfP for CPE's upcoming workshop on "Doing Ethnography in Political Contexts or Doing Politics via Ethnography?" July 2nd!
If you want feedback on working papers&projects, and use qualitative methodologies, this workshop is for you. Some bursaries are available. Please share! More info below:
May 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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jeremymoulton.bsky.social
Thrilled to see my new article in @pspolisci.bsky.social, published open access on first view today: ‘Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?’

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Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education? | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?
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February 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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colinmbrown.bsky.social
One reviewer still needed!
colinmbrown.bsky.social Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · Mar 17
Book reviewers needed for two recent books on academic writing / teaching writing skills, for the Political Science Educator! Please let us know if you are interested. Deadline would be April 15.

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Political Science Educator
The newsletter of APSA's Political Science Education Organized Section.
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March 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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civilwarsjournal.bsky.social
Thank you to our stellar roundtable panel for a fascinating discussion on the present and future of the field of civil wars research today! Lots of ideas and food for thought for both journal and field more broadly #ISA2025
March 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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jamesworrall.bsky.social
Civil Wars is at #ISA2025 @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social do join us!

🧩Workshop on Rebel Finance and the Financialisation of Rebel Governance, Saturday @ 8am

🪁Roundtable on Reimagining the Field, Sunday @ 1.45pm

🥂Drinks Reception, Sunday @ 7.45pm

Feel free to DM or email us to discuss projects!
February 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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🚨 please share!

We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June.

This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers.

Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️

www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...
MoPED Workshop
Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...
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February 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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tsourapas.bsky.social
🚨 Fully funded PhDs at the University of Glasgow! 🚨

We are offering 5 PhD studentships, incl. 3 for low/middle-income country applicants @uofgsps.bsky.social.

📍 Apply by 31 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/tutIq

🔎 Anyone interested in a migration/refugee politics or MENA-related project, get in touch!
February 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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hannefjelde.bsky.social
Just a reminder! Come join our wonderful department. We are hiring a senior lecturer and associate senior lecturer @uupeace.bsky.social
sebastianvanbaalen.se Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · Dec 10
Do you want to work with world-class conflict researchers in a supportive environment? Come be my new colleague! @uupeace.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Senior Lecturer. More info here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

and here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Conflictsky
January 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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neulpt.bsky.social
Writing about ethical challenges in Neurology and seeking your most vexing recent ethical problems. "When surrogates choose suffering" is one that troubles me. Any thoughts from others?
December 22, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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chknutsen.bsky.social
We are hiring: 4-year post doc position at our department, open to all topics in political science.

75% research and 25% teaching, good salary, great department and colleagues, and a beautiful city.

Deadline: February 15

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (4 years) (272043), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2025
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December 20, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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Ethnography & ethical approval

from Hughes, G., & Emmerich, N., (2018). Ethnography and ethics: Securing permission for doctoral research in and from the national health service

#ethics #ethnography
Text: Ethical Dilemma A researcher setting out to undertake participant-observation with the aspiration of creating an ethnography, or an account of people and their social world, will not know what they might encounter once they are in the field. Just as the lab scientist will not know what the results of her experiment might be before she concludes it, neither does the social scientist know what she might find in advance. ... If we knew what we were going to find, we wouldn’t need to undertake the research. The problem for the ethnographer is not that she is unable to predict what she will find, but that she will be unable to predict exactly how she will go about exploring her object of study. A participant-observer who wants to understand the world from the vantage point of another person, or from within a particular social setting, must follow that person, or inhabit that setting, and not direct them. For example, an ethnographer will not know in advance how someone’s daily routines might play out, and yet they will seek to participate in these to understand how they experience their lives. ... ... This intrinsic uncertainty about not just what will be found during the research process but how the process will unfold is particularly problematic for ethnographers when they come to complete the research ethics application form that requires the research interventions or procedures to be specified in advance. The tension between the anticipatory regulatory regime and the emergent nature of ethnography in healthcare is discussed in detail by Murphy and Dingwall (2007). They focus on the difficulties of obtaining written consent without knowing in advance exactly what the research will involve and, therefore, when there is lack of clarity as to what the research participant might be consenting. They caution against an overly bureaucratic process of prior approval as this can over-shadow the need for researchers to respond ethically to dilemmas as they arise.
December 13, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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New publication alert! Polisky Dictatorsky
Check out a new book "The Social Roots of Authoritarianism" by Natalia Forrat! You can find a summary here: twitter.com/forrat/statu...
Natalia Forrat on X: "I will probably never run a real marathon. But I just finished my academic marathon: I published a book :) https://t.co/h69jERWbAZ Keep reading if you are interested in authoritarianism and/or Russia. Link to a free chapter at the end of the thread. https://t.co/Urrzas4PWz" / X
I will probably never run a real marathon. But I just finished my academic marathon: I published a book :) https://t.co/h69jERWbAZ Keep reading if you are interested in authoritarianism and/or Russia. Link to a free chapter at the end of the thread. https://t.co/Urrzas4PWz
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December 13, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Workshop of Institutional Ethics Review from University of Glasgow

Full summary by @rtapscott.bsky.social here: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

Lots of good discussion but I particularly related to the section on costs...
December 12, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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What is Institutional Ethics Review, and Why is it (Still) so
Unsatisfactory for the Social Sciences?
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What is Institutional Ethics Review, and Why is it (Still) so Unsatisfactory for the Social Sciences?
In this blog, Dr Rebecca Tapscott reflects on a two-day international workshop held at the University
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December 12, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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Very interesting and fully-funded PhD opportunity to work on the role of women in Informal Cross-Border Trade (ICBT) along the border between the #DRC and #Uganda, under the supervision of @margotluyckfasseel.bsky.social
& Doreen Kembabazi www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
December 11, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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deacurtis.bsky.social
Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. We are looking for a three year post-doc (starting Oct 2025) to work with us at the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge--in any discipline in the social sciences or humanities. It's a nice place to work! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49412/
Smuts Research Fellow (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Smuts Research Fellow (Fixed Term) in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 9:25 AM
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adamsandor.bsky.social
For all of those considering attending the European Conference on African Studies in Prague next June, see if your research fits our panel ! Lamine Savané (University of Ségou) and I are convening a panel called "Digital Platforms and Armed Insecurity in African Crisis Ecologies".
December 5, 2024 at 10:26 AM