Laurence Cooley
Politics lecturer, University of Birmingham
Work on the politics of deeply divided societies (mostly Northern Ireland these days), including power-sharing, demography and the census. Recently also thinking about Lough Neagh. UCU rep. #firstgen
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- Reposted by Laurence Cooley'When it opened, the campus housed a GP surgery and a new dental clinic offering free treatment to local people. This was followed later by the forum – a library and art gallery shared by the university and local people.' 1/2
- "It's just people. People who are organized." "It works because people in pajamas and crocs will scream at fascists at seven in the morning and take a face full of pepper spray for their effort and just keep doing it day after day."
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- Reposted by Laurence CooleyEverything old being new again all at once is not a coincidence
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- Reposted by Laurence CooleyThe University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
- Reposted by Laurence CooleyHow the new Irish Free State counted the population in 1926. Gregory Walls National Archives @tcddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie on what was involved in compiling the census 100 years ago, the first major administrative act by an independent Irish government www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
- Reposted by Laurence CooleySo far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
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- Reposted by Laurence CooleyNew research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...
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- Reposted by Laurence CooleyI just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
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- Reposted by Laurence CooleyBetween 1969 and the peace deal in 1998, British soldiers killed hundreds of people in Northern Ireland, including many civilians. Should such collective state violence fade from scrutiny? What is the best way to hold it to account? politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/the-bri...
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- Reposted by Laurence Cooleythis is how every outlet should refer to X
- This is like an old fashioned Gawker blog but somehow British and high-brow. I'll take it. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
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- This questioning of the science is something @tagarin.bsky.social, Elliott Hill and I discuss in our analysis of the party politics of the #LoughNeagh crisis, recently published in @bjpir.bsky.social. #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- Reposted by Laurence Cooley2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
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- Reposted by Laurence CooleyClosing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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- Reposted by Laurence CooleyThis article is now out in @bjpir.bsky.social! In it, we explain why government action to tackle the ecological crisis at Lough Neagh has lagged behind the apparent rhetorical consensus about its importance. Has Muir been set up to fail? #LoughNeagh #openaccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
