Siobhan McAndrew, University of Bristol and Paul Widdop, Leeds Beckett University Whether jazz is relatively closed to women — serving as a genre and space primarily for men, with exceptions for vocalists — has been widely-discussed in both the jazz and scholarly communities in recent years. Women, The Legends &…

Labour Conference is currently underway. Constituency Labour Party groups (CLPs, or local organisations at the parliamentary constituency level) fund ‘footsoldier’ members to attend the annual meeting, alongside ordinary members attending independently, trade union and affiliated organisation delegates, and the political, policy and journalism professionals for whom attendance is part of…

The results of the 2017 General Election have been extraordinary, and it’s vital to understand how far the radical remaking of the Labour Party from 2015 may have been responsible. A Conservative landslide was expected at the start of the campaign; the result was a hung Parliament, against all expectations. …

Results of multinomial logistic regression predicting Labour Party membership type among BES sample of respondents participating in each of Waves 6, 8 and 10 who reported Labour membership on at least one of those occasions. N = 741. Return to main story.

I’ve read Chris Hanretty’s blog on party support among higher education professionals — and before that, Noah Carl’s report for the Adam Smith Institute — with great interest. A higher proportion of higher education teachers and professionals than the population at large support Labour and the Greens, consistently so over…

A discussion about this bubbled up last night as to whether and how Twitter can be useful. …

I very much enjoyed the event run on 1 June 2016 by the MMU QStep team and the Sigma Network on reducing mathematical anxiety in higher education and particularly among non-Maths students. This is something I’ve thought about over the past couple of years. I teach an introductory unit at…

Much Work, Little Play in 1950s England I’ve posted recently on the British Religion in Numbers website about a survey dataset I have deposited with the UK Data Service. …

You’ve had a break over Christmas, been away from university, had other unit essays and exams over the past couple of weeks, and suddenly your thesis is rearing its head again… Don’t panic. It’s entirely understandable that you have been focusing elsewhere for the past couple of weeks. But the…