Daniel Casey

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PhD student @politicsANU researching @policyagendas, agenda setting, responsiveness & letters from the public to Prime Ministers. Sourdough & croissant baker ✡️
Websitehttp://www.daniel-casey.org/
Hard Work and You Can’t Get It: An International Comparative Analysis of Gender, Career Aspirations, and Preparedness Among Politics and International Relations PhD Students | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Hard Work and You Can’t Get It: An International Comparative Analysis of Gender, Career Aspirations, and Preparedness Among Politics and International Relations PhD Students

Cambridge Core
Its been a good few weeks!
Looking forward to sharing details about these papers about PhD training/supervision/career mentoring in @politicalscience in Australia and Canada, as well as the impact of COVID on PhD candidates.

Watching “Love Actually” and realised it’s actually a movie about the importance of studying letters from members of the public to political leaders!

https://theloop.ecpr.eu/how-letters-to-leaders-can-improve-our-understanding-of-public-opinion/

How letters to leaders can improve our understanding of public opinion

Writing to our political leaders is a core part of our democratic rights and traditions, but we know almost nothing about the contents of a leader’s mailbag. Daniel Casey opens the mailbag for one Australian Prime Minister to discover a very different measure of public opinion

The Loop
A tale in two parts - with a great coauthor https://twitter.com/serrinrp?s=21&t=gZEtFZs4n6qFWHVtoZeDEQ
Serrin Rutledge-Prior (@serrinrp) / Twitter

PhD @politicsANU | animal politics | animal law | animal advocacy | spying on feathered creatures

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Maccabeats playing, latkes frying! Chag Sameach.
Second round R&R submitted 🤞
Off to Adelaide for the @POPpoliticsAus. Presenting “The ‘Unheavenly Chorus’ vs ‘Won't you please, please help me?’ – Two distinct ways of contacting elected officials?” w @intifar2210. Comparing people who write expressing a political opinion v those seeking help/assistance. @politicalscience

Next week: presenting “Dear John…. Letters from the Public to Prime Minister Howard” at the ANU Institute for Australian Studies Conference #InASA22 @politicalscience

(@tritbaumber maybe some ideas for b plots in PM’s daughter… some weird letters!)

https://howardlibrary.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/2022-08/UNSW-Policy-Perspectives-No-2.pdf

Many of my polsci followers/followees are on mastodon.online or mastodon.social, but apparently some other instances are de-federating from them.... That is going to create an absolute mess!
Call for Papers: Potential Special Issue of Australian Journal of PoliSci
Teaching, learning & HDR training - the future of political science education in Australia
Due 23 Nov