Friday Research Seminar Series
The Friday series is a central part of the Department’s research culture, providing a forum for presenting new and ongoing work in political science.
Seminars take place on Fridays from 4.00pm to 5.00pm in the NIID Room (4.02), College Green. The series features visiting academics, departmental staff, and PhD researchers, covering a broad spectrum of political science topics. Several sessions each term are dedicated to PhD work-in-progress presentations.
The full seminar schedule for each term is available below.
Michaelmas Term 2025
| Date | Presenter | Topic/Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19th September 2025 | Kevin Munger |
Generalization To The Present: Bounding Causal Inference Across Time. |
| 26th September 2025 | Katharina Lawall |
Mobilising against the radical right? The effects of radical right threat on political participation. |
| 3rd October 2025 | Philip Warncke | Boundless but Bundled: Modelling Quasi-infinite Dimensions in Ideological Space. |
| 10th October 2025 | Carl Henrik Knutsen | Surviving and prospering despite difficult times? Liberal democracy as a self-reinforcing equilibrium. |
| 24th October 2025 |
Mariana Borges Martins da Silva |
Why Some False Stories Spread: Cultural Coherence and Cognitive Fluency in Misinformation Diffusion. |
| 7th November 2025 | PhD Students Lily Rice & Tianxin Zhang | |
| 14th November 2025 | Alexandra Cirone |
Gender Dynamics in Online Deliberation: Evidence from the 2023 Meta Community Forum on AI Chatbots. |
| 21st November 2025 | Alexander Yeandle | Natural disasters and incumbent support in low-income democracies. |
| 28th November 2025 | PhD Students Valeriia Babaian & Ana Sofia Henriques Jesus | |
| 5th December 2025 | Sandrine Baume | Navigating the Paradox of Militant Democracy Through the Dirty Hands Lens. |
Hilary Term 2026
| Date | Presenter | Topic/Title |
|---|---|---|
| 30th January 2026 | Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed |
Measuring Change Without Harm: Ethical and Methodological Lessons from an Edutainment Experiment in Egypt. |
| 6th February 2026 | Ala Alrababah | Cycling through Elections: The Political Consequences of the Tour de France. |
| 13th February 2026 | PhD Students Soumiya Benaali Bakkar & Junjie Liu | |
| 20th February 2026 | PhD Students Eleni Karagianni, Jamie McClenaghan & Jennifer Moynihan | |
| 13th March 2026 | Âsa von Schultz | The (Ill) Will of the People: Hidden Support for Unconstrained Majority Rule in a Consolidated Democracy. |
| 20th March 2026 | PhD Students Clémence Pellissier & Juliane Wesselmann | |
| 27th March 2026 | PhD Students Luka De Lacey, Mairi Kachur & Rubèn Llorens Poblador | |
| 10th April 2026 | PhD Students Sarah Magdihs, Jan Onno Steenweg & Lisanne Van Vucht |