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SSE in the media March - April 2026

National and international coverage for SSE's academics and researchers across a range of media, from media, to online, to national broadcasters and press outlets. 

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Tim Bale

Tim's writes about the Party Members project in the final edition of the Political Studies Association's Political Insight magazine in 'Polarised and Powerful: Party Members in British Politics'

Richard Johnson

Richard wrote a commentary piece for the Telegraph, 'Shabana Mahmood is not betraying Labour', and 'Gorton and Denton will break Labour’s fragile coalition' for Unherd.
Richard also appeared on CNN to speak about Trump's State of the Union, and The Texas Senate primary and for SBS News: Could Andrew become the first Royal removed from the line of succession in 90 years?
Richard's biweekly podcast has been ongoing with recent topics including 'Was Theresa May the most pro-LGBT prime minister ever?' and 'How much power did [QM History Alumna] Marcia Williams have over Harold Wilson?'. Available on Apple, Spotify, and other podcast apps.

Eoghan Kelly

A discussion of Eoghan’s projections of the 2026 Scottish Parliament election appeared on the front page of The National. 

Elke Schwarz

Elke contributed to ‘The first AI war: US and Israel use Iran to test autonomous tech’ in the Times and was interviewed France24 on GB ‘Radical acceleration’ in AI military targeting. Elke was quoted in ‘Claude AI Helped Bomb Iran. But How Exactly?’ in Bloomberg, in ‘AI, a dead student, and US airstrikes: How a civilian became caught up in a new age of warfare’ for the Independent, and in Former gamer Palmer Luckey has sights set on US defence big bucks in the Observer. She 

Elke also wrote a piece on Anthropic and the Pentagon in The Conversation, and was quoted in Dutch online publication Niewsbrief' article 'Nederland wil Amerikaanse onbemenste gevechtsvliegtuigen vol AI aanschaffen'

She appeared on Al Jazeera (Arabic). A piece she did on autonomous weapons last year went live this month for German TV station ARTE. 

Andrew Smith

Andrew spoke to France24 about the first and second rounds of the French municipal elections. He also appeared on France24 to discuss his latest book: Make Cheese Not War: Transnational Resistance and the Larzac in Modern France

Stijn van Kessel

Stijn was cited in this Spanish newspaper (El Espanol) article on the installation of the new Dutch government:

Ray Ward

I've just had an article on my marine conservation research in a BBC article.

Ray was quoted in the BBC News’ article ‘Trawling ban sparks marine recovery’, and BBC Radio Sussex also covered the story. Listen here (1:45-1:53).

Ray is also celebrating 5 years of protection from trawling of 304km2 of coastline based off one of my projects. The project (Sussex Kelp Recovery Project) is mentioned in David Attenborough's recent book, and he spoke on ITV Meridian about the project. 

Waseem Yaqoob

Waseem Yaqoob (History) recently participated in a post-show talkback for ‘Here There Are Blueberries’ at Stratford East. The documentary play examines a historical photo album of SS personnel relaxing at Auschwitz. The conversation with the founder and chair of Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Ethics revolved around questions of historical culpability and responsibility, and how they might shed light on the administration and normalisation of genocidal violence today. 19 February

Joanne Yao

Joanne worked with a PhD student in Geography on a Wonkhe article on the mid-career mentoring workshops we've organised the past two years. Joanne was also interviewed for Scholarly Sources for the New Books Network.

 

 

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