Long-term social and demographic changes – and the conflicts they create – continue to transform British politics. In their new book Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots of this polarisation and volatility run, drawing out decades of educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over immigration, identity and diversity.

Multilevel regression and post-stratification is a way of estimating opinion in small areas.

If you've ever needed to make a prediction as to what a small area thinks, or control for "district-level preferences", this talk is for you.

This talk will give an overview on the use of Twitter data for social science research. The talk will focus on an applied example using data from participants in the 2017 US Women’s March protests. It will be followed by some hands-on exercises describing how to access the Twitter API, including the new Academic Research Product Track.

In the span of three months in 2020, Belarusian and foreign journalists were arrested more than 310 times in the line of duty. As of April 2021, 12 journalists remain behind bars. Volha Siakhovich is a legal expert and human rights campaigner for the Belarusian Association of Journalists. She will tell us about the current climate, and what the international journalism community can do to bring attention to it.

Jessica Hamzelou reports on health and medical science for New Scientist. She has a BSc in biomedical science and was named BSME’s Best Digital Writer in 2018 and ABSW’s British Science Writer of the Year in 2017. In 2020, the biggest story her beat could conjure broke around the same time she found out she was expecting. Here’s how the story evolved for her, what it was like stepping back from it, and how she expects the coverage will evolve in 2021.

Samuel Getachew is a freelance journalist based in Addis Adiba with bylines in Quartz, CNN, the Huffington Post and the Globe and Mail. Ahead of the Ethiopian general election on June 5th, he'll be talking to us about the situation in Tigray, the ban on foreign journalists, and reports of massacres.

Toronto Star's former public editor believes a revival of this largely culled position in newsrooms could help restore trust in news and improve the diversity of content and staff.

Gustavo Faleiros is a journalist who specializes in geojournalism. In 2012, he launched InfoAmazonia, a digital news platform that uses satellite and other publicly available data to monitor information from nine countries of the Amazon rainforest.