Volume 8: Editor's Note

Thank you for reading Juncture: The University of Manchester Undergraduate Politics Journal. We hope you found Volume 8, our special combined publication for the 2024/2025 academic year, interesting and insightful. We are both continuously impressed by the high standard of research conducted at undergraduate level at the University of Manchester. The School of Social Sciences fosters incredible political scholarship and it has been our privilege to place a spotlight on that talent throughout our time at Juncture. We both joined as Editorial Board Members in October 2022 as 1st year students. We took over as Editors-in-Chief in July 2023 and held this post until the publication of Volume 8, when we handed over to a brand new and incredibly committed executive team. Juncture has been a defining responsibility of our university experience, and one that has uniquely enabled us to meet promising scholars and enjoy some of the highest quality undergraduate research.

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We'd like to thank the School of Social Sciences, particularly Dan Silver, Marta Cantijoch, and Nick Turnbull for their support and effort throughout our tenure. They have championed our mission to highlight the value of undergraduate research and will carry this through with new boards. We'd also like to thank our executive board who has been with us for two years. Ella, Farida, Ed, and Ellen have shown such commitment even when the workload has been mountainous and deadlines tight. Without them, we simply would have not been able to get off the ground at the start of the year. We extend our gratitude to the rest of the editorial board who have worked with diligence and integrity throughout. From our editorial board, we are excited to hand over the baton to Ben and Otis, Juncture’s new Editors-in-Chief, and wish them every success in future publications. We hope you enjoy Juncture: Volume 8 and continue to visit and support in the future. It has been our privilege to showcase this young scholarly talent and we are proud to have developed an international readership. We hope you share our belief in the underrepresented value of undergraduate research and continue to support Juncture's mission to fill that analytical gap.

With warmest wishes for every success,

Mitchell Bowcock & Antonia Giles

Editors-in-Chief 2023-2025