221 research outputs found
[Thesis Data] Charting Westminster's bubble: an ideological map of Britain's digital elite
No full textAccompanying datasets collected as part of the thesis: Charting Westminster's Bubble: An Ideological Map of Britain's Digital Elite, PhD Thesis, University of Southampton, 2025.</span
Charting Westminster’s bubble: an ideological map of Britain’s digital elite
No full textThe social networking site, Twitter (now rebranded as X), is a microblogging platform which has garnered a reputation for being a platform for the elites. Not only are its users disproportionately members of socially privileged groups – younger, wealthier, and more highly educated – relative to other social networking sites, it has become the favourited social media platform for many high profile media and political elites. This is no less the case than in the United Kingdom (UK) where many of the country’s politicians, journalists, media outlets, and political commentators have taken to the site en masse over the last decade and a half. The recent digitisation of Britain’s commentariat has presented an opportunity to trace the networks of political and media elites in the UK and exploit them to gather a better understanding of important offline phenomena. Using advanced quantitative and computational techniques, this three-paper thesis leverages original large-scale digital data from the Twitter networksof UK political and media elites to address three key concepts: (1) intra-partycompetition; (2) media representation; and (3) dyadic representation.Generating a formally validated set of left/right ideological estimates of UK Members of Parliament (MP) and a wider set of elite accounts that follow them, this thesis strives to build an ideological map of the UK’s digital elite. Paper 1 of this thesis uses these left/right estimates to model candidate endorsement in the September 2022 Conservative Party leadership contest, confirming that Liz Truss drew support from the further right of the party. Paper 2 assesses ideological representation in the guest selection of seven flagship political programmes on the UK’s six major T.V broadcasters between 2022 and 2024, finding that each of the seven shows selected from the right of the average elite Twitter user. Paper 3 makes use of contemporary developments in small area estimation in the form of multilevel regression with poststratification to assess the dyadic relationship between an MP’s Twitter profile and their respective constituencies, establishing a within-party responsiveness to the left/right position of their constituents along a social dimension
England’s world: UK foreign policy in a multi-nation state
No full textUK foreign policy is the product of the politics of a multi-nation state. Because of its size, politics and position in the constitutional imagination of UK decision makers, England dominates policy-making. Brexit showed how that domination can cause difficulties and tensions within the UK when a foreign policy issue becomes a domestic issue where English opinion is at odds with other parts of the UK. Despite this, analysis of English views and influence over the UK’s foreign policy remains under-developed. In this article, we outline the mechanisms by which England dominates UK foreign policy and how foreign policy issues can become domestic electoral issues, as happened with Brexit. We examine polling of the views of voters in England and Scotland to identify potential areas of disagreement. We show that while the English and Scottish do not hold profoundly different world views, there are some foreign policy issues that could be mobilised as domestic electoral issues causing division and tensions for the UK
2013 Common Book Convocation: Conor Grennan, author of Little Princes: One Man\u27s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal.
No full textLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan’s battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan’s remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/commonbook/1003/thumbnail.jp
“Hey Skinny, Your Ribs Are Showing”: The Fitness Industry of Charles Atlas and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century United States
No full textAbout the author
Conor Heffernan is a senior of History and Political Science at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Conor has a keen interest in health and fitness and American culture in the 20th century. He hopes to further his studies into the history of physical culture in the future
Thank God for Free Time: A Leisure Examen
No full textHow are you using your free time? Do you have enough of it? Too much? Are you mainly using it to veg out? Or are you devoting time to growing closer to God and other people and promoting the common good? These are some of the questions that animate the scholarly work of our latest AMDG podcast guest, Dr. Conor M. Kelly. An assistant professor of theology at Marquette University, Conor is the author of the recent book “The Fullness of Free Time: A Theological Account of Leisure and Recreation in the Moral Life.
Review of Irish Women Poets Rediscovered, by Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie (eds.)
No full textReview of Irish Women Poets Rediscovered, by Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie (eds.) (Cork: Cork University Press, 2021), 192 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78205-479-5, €39 (hardback)
The author of this essay wants to acknowledge her participation in the funded Research Project PID2019-109565RB-I00/AEI: "Illness in the Age of Extinction: Anglophone Narratives of Personal and Planetary Degradation (2000-2020)
Conor O'Callaghan and Robert Gray
No full textOne captures Ireland, the other Australia - a unique and lively gathering as two wondrous poets meet. Conor O'Callaghan was born in Newry in 1968 and is the author of three collections of poetry, The History of Rain, Seatown and Fiction. He has been awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize. He is also the author of Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil War, and lives in Manchester. Winner of all of Australia's top poetry awards, Robert Gray captures an essence of his country in both poetry and memoir: 'No-one has seen this country as sharply, or with as much tenderness, as he has done' - Kevin Hart Recordings of an event held Tuesday 6th October 2009. To download and save this audio file right-click on the 'download' link and use 'save link as'; we suggest changing the filename to something more meaningful at this stage. Just clicking the link will normally play the audio on your computer but may not offer you the facility to save the file
Fortissat Science Alliance podcast: Conor McKinnon and Jade McMorland
No full textConor McKinnon and Jade McMorland were PhD students at the University of Strathclyde working on development of renewable energy. They took part in the Fortissat Science Alliance podcast recordings in July 2021.What is the Fortissat Science Alliance?The Fortissat Science Alliance was a Wellcome Trust & Children In Need "Curiosity" project. This scheme provided informal STEM learning opportunities for young people who attended the community centre Getting Better Together Shotts (GBT Shotts) between 2019 and 2023. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, deliveries had to pivot online so the podcast was founded. These recordings were made via Zoom with warm-up STEM activities sent to every young person in advance, along with a profile page for each researcher, so that they were relaxed and able to ask excellent questions.Link to episode on Spotify.Depending on the broadcast date, podcast deliveries were co-sponsored by Glasgow Science Festival, EXPLORATHON 2021, or EXPLORATHON 2022/23.For the duration of the project, it was supported jointly by Children in Need and the Wellcome Trust. In 2021, EXPLORATHON episodes were supported by the European Commission [grant agreement ID 101036101]. In 2022-23, EXPLORATHON episodes were supported by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/X020894/1]. Author contributions to contentConor McKinnon and Jade McMorland were the guests featured on this episode. Rebecca Hay was the youth worker coordinating the young people who conducted the interviews as well as co-editing and broadcasting the recordings. Iain Hamilton co-edited the episodes. Kirsty Ross was the STEM consultant for the project and uploaded completed episodes to Figshare.</p
Conor O'Callaghan and Robert Gray
No full textOne captures Ireland, the other Australia - a unique and lively gathering as two wondrous poets meet. Conor O'Callaghan was born in Newry in 1968 and is the author of three collections of poetry, The History of Rain, Seatown and Fiction. He has been awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize. He is also the author of Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil War, and lives in Manchester. Winner of all of Australia's top poetry awards, Robert Gray captures an essence of his country in both poetry and memoir: 'No-one has seen this country as sharply, or with as much tenderness, as he has done' - Kevin Hart Recordings of an event held Tuesday 6th October 2009. To download and save this audio file right-click on the 'download' link and use 'save link as'; we suggest changing the filename to something more meaningful at this stage. Just clicking the link will normally play the audio on your computer but may not offer you the facility to save the file
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