Kenn Rushworth

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Researcher on voter registration at the University of Manchester. Occasional drummer, very occasional poet, very very occasional midfielder.

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Handed in my thesis yesterday - today feels rather surreal. Was nice being able to do it with me friends there Now I'm: • working slowly on an article • in the early stages of trying to design a module • figuring out what this viva stuff is • entering mid-term marking chaos • upping the job search

Kowloon Walled City has been a special interest of mine for a while - I spent my downtime rewriting a piece on how the cultural memory of the city has changed - not the neatest piece but I enjoy researching it. It takes in colonial history to hyperreality to cyberpunk medium.com/@kenn.rushwo...

Memories of the City of Darkness: Kowloon Walled City and Cultural Memorymedium.com Memories of the City of Darkness: Kowloon Walled City and Cultural Memory

With there being 40+ elections next year I'm trying to think of the best way to present, track, & analyse them (countries, voting system, key parties, candidates, results etc). Blog To camera videos á la Geography Now Excel file Radio or dundunDUN podcast ? Suggestion & collaboration welcome 🌐

Uni of Manchester was used a polling station for Chilean's living outside of Chile for the first time yesterday - UOM PGR Francisco Espinoza campaigned for the creation of a new polling station aside from the consulate in London. It serves North of England, North of Ireland, and Scotland 🌐polisky

Never got into Star Trek, however, how do I go about referencing a character from an episode? Would this class as qualitative Data? (Did I mean that pun....you bet I did)

Great finally getting @florianfoos.bsky.social up to D&E in Manchester. Presenting - 'Media platforming and the normalisation of extreme right views' (joint work with Diane Bolet). A very good final seminar of 2023

Setting the challenge of discussing "To what extent has the debate over decline played a role in Britain's vote to Leave" w/ 1st years without mentioning G**dwin. Firstly due to his recent work undermining (i'd argue almost discrediting) his work round then and secondly out of sheer lack of respect

How Political Polling Failed Ethnic Minorities in the UK A good and brief insight by Dr Neema Begum & Prof Maria Sobolewska 🌐 #polisky poliski polsci inews.co.uk/opinion/poli...

How political polling failed ethnic minorities in the UKinews.co.uk If they want to win, parties can't ignore the ethnic voter data gap for much longer

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My solo-authored piece from my PhD on why governments take unpopular decisions is finally out in Representation - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Based on interviews with decision-makers, I find that in 3 cases where UK governments took unpopular decisions they did not do so knowingly (1/3)

Having a quiet Saturday after long week so thought i'd start marking - in true UoM fashion some of the marking had not been designated to the right person so that absolutely brilliant essay I genuinely enjoyed marking...... not from my pile or group 🤦‍♂️

Weird editing process outcomes this past month - One piece of writing went from 12k to 21k words and works much better. Another went from 16k to 9.5k words and works better Odd but i'll have it

The next leader of the Senedd

It’s all kicking off in Wales

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Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board? Me: I am a Dr Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701

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My first article now has page numbers! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... polisky gendersky

Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU me...journals.sagepub.com The result of the Brexit referendum and its effect on subsequent UK elections have attracted a large amount of media and scholarly interest, but there has been ...

About 32 minutes in is a good summary of the connection between Ireland and Palestine and their significant shared history. open.spotify.com/episode/4ph2...

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This is a shocker, but the picture would be even more extreme as a time series!

Oh, and a bonus chart that I think will fry a lot of people’s brains and break a lot of narratives: For all the talk of six figure costs of college in the States, here’s how much debt graduates leave university with in the UK and US vs other countries

The misty view from the University of Manchester Politics dept. this morning . 🌐 polisky

Worth mentioning this again. A useful and simple plug-in to see who on your twitter/X has Bluesky (polisky) 🌐

Straight forward way of finding the people you followed on twitter on BlueSky. Scroll down for the plug ins. <40sec video is a good explainer too. github.com/kawamataryo/...

Got told "it's a good PhD" today, which was nice.

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👋 Hi polisky, have you registered for our Welcome Event yet? Benefits: 💡Get advice about early career life from Dr James Weinberg, @cerifowler.bsky.social and Dr David Jeffery ❓Ask them your questions 🤝Meet fellow PhD students and ECRs 🌟It's FREE! Register now to join us via Zoom👇

🚨 EVENT NEWS We are delighted to announce our 2023 ECN Welcome Event will take place on 20 October at 3pm via Zoom. Join us for a friendly, open discussion of PhD/ECR life in polisky! The event is FREE and open to all. Registration: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...

Before I forget about it. I'm sharing this short piece on Football and a soft power weapon that I wrote prior to last years World Cup for Political Perspectives 🌐 sites.manchester.ac.uk/political-pe...

Football as a weapon of soft power: The beautiful game hiding the ugly truthsites.manchester.ac.uk

Realising that the greatest challenge to face organising EPOP 2024 in Manchester will be that it has 3 of the worst train stations in the country in terms of % trains cancelled. In a new low Oxford Road didn't even have the boards working tonight along with 20+ minute delays. Polisky

Currently trying to edit a series of paragraphs in a chronological chapter where the most common author for May 2010 has the surname May. Things got confusing quite quickly 🌐

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Happy to announce to polisky that @besresearch.bsky.social is now on Bluesky!

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Very pleased to make an appearance in the latest of this excellent series by Phil Cowley: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

The Professor Will See You Nowwww.politicshome.com In an occasional series, Professor Philip Cowley offers a political science lesson for The House readers. Here: the graduate voter. Illustration by Tracy Worrall

I enjoy that I can include friends/colleagues (frolleagues?) in the advised reading section of seminars. @cerifowler.bsky.social article 'Gender-age gaps in Euroscepticism and vote choice at the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum on EU membership' is open access journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Having seen how awkward-bordering-on-uncanny Sunak's Smoke free future promo pic is it is worth reading @niamhcashell.bsky.social piece on appearing visually authentic blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/visualising-...

Visualising the future of visual politicsblog.politics.ox.ac.uk Visual campaigning is not new to the social media era. In the US, the first political cartoon was published by Benjamin Franklin in political pamphlets in 1747. Visual symbols such as the bald eagle, ...

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Hi everyone! I’m a Politics PhD student based at the University of Manchester. I focus on visual political communication and how candidates target in-groups and out-groups through their campaign imagery. In my spare time I love swimming, especially outdoors!

Probably good that the 7 bins thing isn't true considering it's "mizzy night" round here at the end of the month.