EPOP 2012 Conference, 7th-9th September

The 2012 Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) conference will be held at the University of Oxford, from 7th to 9th September. Registration has closed.

The Twitter hashtag for the conference is #EPOP2012. Tweets on this are at: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23EPOP2012

News (7th November)

The 2013 EPOP conference will be on September 13-15, at the University of Lancaster. The organiser will be This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

News (4th September)

The full conference programme is now available to download here.

News (3rd September)

Emails about accommodation (to those who booked some) and about presentations (to all registered participants) went out on Friday. Please email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you didn't receive one or both of these when you should have.

News (28th August)

First, the conference website www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/epop2012 has a section called 'Papers' for posting conference papers or slides. Authors are requested to email either their paper, if possible, or slides to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ideally by Monday 3rd September.  We will try to post them as soon as possible after we receive them. Please provide papers or slides in pdf format if possible. This is for the purposes of posting them on the web only. For actual presentations at the conference, Powerpoint, Word and Adobe Acrobat will be available, and you should bring slides on flash drives (usb memory sticks).
Second, Tom Scotto is organising a pre-EPOP event on the topic of public opinion and foreign policy to which you are all welcome. Participation is free to all attendees, but please email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you are planning to attend. Details of the panels here.

Joining EPOP

EPOP is the largest specialist group of the Political Studies Association of the UK. Members benefit from a reduced conference registration rate. Details of how to join EPOP are at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/offer/fbep-so.asp.

Please follow the links on the left-hand-side menu for further details.

Stephen Fisher (Convenor)

on behalf of the organising committee