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16/02/2022

Our documentary with Silverfish Films about political trust and the trust crisis is out on YouTube now! Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mJbplDCrWs

The documentary explores how diverse, ordinary citizens (from the UK, USA and Denmark) feel about their governments, political institutions, politicians and why they feel this way. The film highlights the state of political trust in the world and whether it has been declining in recent times; it also looks at what the consequences of this may be for our democracies and society. The documentary includes extensive interviews with multiple academics from the UK, USA, Denmark, France and Iceland, as well as various journalistic experts, community activists and ordinary citizens. Academics from TrustGov and beyond share their findings and ideas with the audience in an engaging and relatable way, woven together with the personal stories of ordinary citizens.

The TrustGov research project at the University of Southampton teamed up with the film production company Silverfish to create this documentary about politic...

19/04/2021

TOMORROW! Digital Mini-Conference: The Geography of Political Trust - https://mailchi.mp/12a5408097a0/political-trust-in-crisis-conference-programme-4746382

09/04/2021

The TrustGov research project at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with the PolTrust research project at the University of Amsterdam, presents a digital mini-conference on “The Geography of Political Trust” - taking part through Zoom on April 20th, 2021, from 14:00-17:15 UK time.

Registration is still open to anyone (free of charge) through our website, where you can also find details for the conference schedule: https://trustgov.net/events/2021/4/20/the-geography-of-political-trust

The conference will bring together some of leading scholars on the topic of the geographical dynamics of political trust around the world. It will consist of two 90 minute sessions, with an open 15 minute coffee break between them.

The TrustGov research project at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with the PolTrust research project at the University of Amsterdam, presents a digital mini-conference on “The Geography of Political Trust” - taking part through Zoom on April 20th, 2021, from 14:00-17:15 UK time. T...

25/03/2021

TrustGov Newsletter - March 2021 - Upcoming Mini-Conference! - https://mailchi.mp/df09f466e227/0dluqcab1o-4733918

19/01/2021

from UK in a Changing Europe is out now!

Our very own Will Jennings writes: "Survey data from the British Election Study reveals how political trust has been realigned since Boris Johnson came to power."

Find the full report at:https://ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Brexit-and-Beyond-report-compressed.pdf

21/10/2020

The deadline for registering for our "Political Trust in Crisis" conference is at midnight tonight (BST)!

We have 24 exciting presentations of political trust research and two roundtables scheduled. On Friday, legendary academics will discuss the future of political trust research!

Full conference programme and registration form can be found at: https://trustgov.net/digital-conference-2020

20/10/2020

Our digital conference on "Political Trust in Crisis" is this Thursday and Friday from 13:00-18:00 (BST) through Zoom and you can still register for free at https://trustgov.net/digital-conference-2020 until midnight tomorrow!

We have 8 very exciting panels (in four parallel sessions) and two epic roundtables scheduled - you can find the full conference programme on our website. On the Thursday at 17:00-18:00, we have a great roundtable of practitioners, discussing how we might build political trust!

19/10/2020

Political Trust in Crisis Digital Conference: This week! - https://mailchi.mp/ac0de609b986/political-trust-in-crisis-conference-programme-4177285

12/10/2020

Political Trust in Crisis: Update - https://mailchi.mp/9fae724beee4/political-trust-in-crisis-conference-programme-4171917

25/09/2020

Political Trust in Crisis: Conference Programme - https://mailchi.mp/527b7924e43b/political-trust-in-crisis-conference-programme

24/09/2020

You can find our paper in The Political Quarterly on "Covid‐19 and the Blunders of our Governments: Long‐run System Failings Aggravated by Political Choices" online!

"First, we argue that blunders occur because of systemic weaknesses that stimulate poor policy choices. Second, we review and assess the performance of governments on Covid‐19 across a range of advanced democracies. Third, in the light of these comparisons we argue that the UK system of governance has proved itself vulnerable to failure at the time when its citizens most needed it. Finally, we outline an agenda of reform that seeks to rectify structural weaknesses of that governance capacity."

More urgently than ever we need an answer to the question posed by the late Mick Moran in The Political Quarterly nearly two decades ago: ‘if government now invests huge resources in trying to be sma...

23/09/2020

👇 Check out our report on trust, COVID and Brexit

Do voters still have in the government and with Boris Johnson?

Will Jennings, shares his latest research drawn from talking to people across towns and cities in England with TrustGov Ipsos MORI

https://soundcloud.com/user-941630307/brexit-and-beyond-with-professor-will-jennings