Essay Prize 2024
We are delighted to announce the 2024 edition of our annual essay prize. We run parallel prizes for secondary school pupils and undergraduate university students,… Read More »Essay Prize 2024
We are delighted to announce the 2024 edition of our annual essay prize. We run parallel prizes for secondary school pupils and undergraduate university students,… Read More »Essay Prize 2024
Over summer 2023 the SES held two essay prize competitions, one for university undergraduates and one for school pupils. Our expert judging panel selected very… Read More »SES Essay Prizes: Read the Winning Entries
by Ailsa Henderson Before Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as Scottish National Party leader and First Minister of Scotland, the biggest debate inside the SNP surrounded the… Read More »Constitution or Con-substitution? What Scottish voters want from the next General Election
Prof. Maria Sobolewska joined us at the University of Edinburgh on the 17th of May 2023 to deliver the second SES annual lecture titled “Race… Read More »2023 Annual Lecture by Prof. Maria Sobolewska
We have released a package of teaching resources targeted at undergraduates. The package contains a readme, a codebook, a stripped-down version of the December 2021… Read More »Release: Scoop Teaching Pack
The SES has announced two essay prizes, one for undergraduates and one for Secondary School pupils. The prizes will be judged by a prestigious panel… Read More »Announcement: SES Essay Prizes
As part of the Scottish Election Study’s second annual “bonanza week”, we have released the first version of the Scottish Opinion Monitor’s tracking dataset (aka… Read More »Data Release: Scoop Tracker
Full November 2022 Scoop tables available here.On the morning of Wednesday the 23rd of November, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom released its judgement… Read More »Scoop Monitor: Support for Scottish independence has risen, but why?
We have produced three digestible briefing reports and an A2 classroom poster, which were initially distributed at the November 2022 Modern Studies Association conference. These… Read More »Materials for Modern Studies teachers
Photo by Rico Meier on Unsplash In our previous blog we explained that Scottish voters had less respect for Boris Johnson but felt he was… Read More »Balmoral Blues? Scottish Attitudes to Conservative Leadership