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Christine Gallagher
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First-gen PhD researcher. Socioeconomic inclusion in Australian workplace diversity & inclusion policy. PoliSci. Social policy. Inequality. Power theory. Policy process literature. MPhil IR, Oxford (Clarendon). Master Admin Law & Policy, USYD.
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Christine Gallagher @mechrissyg.bsky.social · Nov 16
We need people with lived experience of socioeconomic disadvantage to be policy advisors inside organisations and not only sharing their stories of hardship as external community consultants. There's work to be done to make this accessible.

#policysky #workplace #DEI #academicsky #socialmobility
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With #SocialMobility, it can be rare to meet others who share the experience. I appreciated this conversation with a fellow PhD researcher who is also a #FirstGen scholar. Emma is a creative writer whose research relates to working class literature.

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Working Class Literature, Emma O’Neill-Sandham
A conversation about Western Sydney Literature and Working Class Literature with creative writer Emma O’Neill-Sandham who is a PhD researcher at the University of Sydney. Emma’s research and …
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August 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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For St Patrick's Day, I spoke with Irish poet Dr Anne Casey about her doctoral research on the Great Irish Famine and her approach to 'reviving lost histories through poetics of resistance'. The podcast includes poetry readings by Anne.

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Irish poet Anne Casey
Dr Anne Casey is an internationally acclaimed poet from west Clare in Ireland. Throughout this conversation, Anne kindly reads and introduces several of her poems and shares insights from her acade…
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March 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
Finally coming up for air! The preliminary draft of my book is officially in the hands of the book workshop attendees. Feels crazy to step out from under the urgent writing grind. Excited (and a little nervous) to hear their thoughts, but for now, I’m gonna enjoy the breather.
Title page: Respectability, Identity, Stigma, and the Politics of Social Control in Unequal Societies Hakeem Jefferson February 8, 2025 Abstract Respectability: Identity, Stigma, and the Politics of Social Control in Unequal Societies critiques and extends prevailing ideas about shared identity by examining how the burdens of collective costs complicate group solidarity. While shared identity often fosters cohesion, this book demonstrates how stigma and structural inequality impose unique pressures on Black Americans and other marginalized groups, leading not only to solidarity but also to intragroup surveillance, policing, and punishment. Respectability politics is a particularly salient manifestation of these dynamics, emerging in response to stigma and inequality. Although rooted in the Black American experience, respectability politics reflects broader patterns that appear across cultures and contexts, where marginalized groups contend with shared burdens and their consequences. A key contribution of this book is the development of the Respectability Politics Scale (RPS), a novel measure that provides a systematic way to study respectability politics and its consequences. This scale allows for empirical exploration of how respectability politics shapes attitudes toward punitive policies, intragroup dynamics, and broader systems of control. By introducing the concept of perceptions of collective costs—the belief that individual behavior reflects on and affects the group as a whole—this work situates respectability politics within a larger framework of identity, stigma, and social control. Through rigorous empirical evidence and comparative insights, this book not only illuminates respectability politics as a critical lens for understanding intragroup dynamics but also demonstrates its broader relevance to understanding systems of control in unequal societies worldwide. By doing so, it offers a path forward for scholars and practitioners seeking to challenge and transform these dynamics.
February 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
mechrissyg.bsky.social
I’m presenting a paper on Barnett and Duvall’s taxonomy of power at UVA today exactly 20 yrs since it was published in @iojournal.bsky.social. Originating in IR, the taxonomy guides my research on domestic social policy issues.

#AcademicSky #Polisky #PolicySky

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Power in International Politics | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Power in International Politics - Volume 59 Issue 1
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January 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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evawegner.bsky.social
Our new research digest is out 👇. If you have anything on political and economic inequality, accountability or distributive politics coming out in the next four weeks and would like it featured in our next digest let us know!
inqdp.bsky.social Inequality and Distributive Politics - IDP @inqdp.bsky.social · Dec 9
📰🧐 Research Digest November 2024 - Local portfolios in 🇩🇪 municipalities - Support for radical right in rural 🇵🇹 - Attitudes towards disaster assistance in the 🇺🇸 - Election timing and minority candidate success in California - Politicians’ theories of elections and voting
December 10, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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ebharrington.bsky.social
Calling all social scientists whose work touches on offshore finance! Please submit your work to the special issue of the journal Socio-Economic Review that I'll be guest editing with my fellow sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang & historian Vanessa Ogle. Due date:15 May.
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December 8, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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Is wealth inequality bad for growth?

Will Snell, Chief Executive @fairness.bsky.social , argues that it is 👇 https://t.co/OGanUjLC3J
December 6, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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novosad.bsky.social
Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc.

In a word: Harvard.

Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard.

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December 6, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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What drives social mobility over time? Arash Nekoei has received a 1,8M EUR ERC grant to uncover the patterns and drivers of mobility, inequality, and growth using unique Swedish historical data and models. 🌍 #SocialMobility #ERC
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ERC grants 20 Million SEK for research on Increased Social Mobility - Stockholm University
What is behind the increased social mobility that defines today's economic systems in Europe in historical comparison? The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Arash Nekoei, Associate Professor...
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December 4, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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garethbryant.bsky.social
Announcing our new unit of study on Universal Basic Income - to be offered for the first time at the University of Sydney in 2025! www.ppesydney.net/study-univer...
Study Universal Basic Income at the University of Sydney - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Introducing SSPS6008 – Universal Basic Income In 2025, the the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Sydney will offer the first unit of study focused on Universal Basic...
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November 26, 2024 at 5:02 AM
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ucstonecenter.bsky.social
Join the Stone Center Team!

We’re searching for Postdoctoral Scholars with research priorities in wealth inequality and intergenerational mobility. 1 year renewable position, starting summer 2025.

Apply by January 31, 2025.

Application Link: bit.ly/4eGP0Rp
November 21, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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@durlauf.bsky.social, coauthors introduce "memory curves," showing how a family's starting point shapes its socioeconomic trajectory. While "memory" of initial conditions largely fades within three generations, great differences exist based on occupational classes.

Read the article: bit.ly/40XekQa
Immobility As Memory: Some New Approaches to Characterizing Intergenerational Persistence via Markov Chains
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November 20, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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schechtlm.bsky.social
I created this list a couple of days ago based on some people I know about but there has been a ton of new arrivals--please let me know who else to include. Also, this is an interdisciplinary list! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSky #Demography

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November 14, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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sldelange.bsky.social
Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU
November 15, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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katrobison.bsky.social
I couldn’t find the Starter Pack I wanted, so I had to crest it myself - please let me know if you or someone you know belongs on it as I slowly work to build it between chasing a ten month old around. go.bsky.app/QJY9Nup #polisci #politics #policy
November 19, 2024 at 2:54 AM
mechrissyg.bsky.social
We need people with lived experience of socioeconomic disadvantage to be policy advisors inside organisations and not only sharing their stories of hardship as external community consultants. There's work to be done to make this accessible.

#policysky #workplace #DEI #academicsky #socialmobility
November 16, 2024 at 12:45 AM