Past Events
A Permanent Revolution?: Neo-Liberalism and British Politics
15 June 2011
The Centre for British Politics (Nottingham) and the Centre for Political Ideologies (Oxford) organised a workshop which took place on Wednesday 15th June, 2011 at Oxford University. The aim of the workshop was to explore the impact of neo-liberalism, and to examine the ways in which the challenges it posed has driven ideological change and policy reform across the political landscape.
Governance and Public Policy in the United Kingdom
10 December 2010
The Centre for British Politics (CBP) hosted its 3rd annual conference at the University of Nottingham. The overall aim was to explain and assess recent and current developments in UK governance and public policy, examining both institutional reforms and changes in key areas of public policy under ‘New Labour’ and the present Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.
The 2010 General Election Workshop: how we got hung
4 June 2010
The Centre for British Politics hosted a special workshop to help make sense of what was the most extraordinary election in recent history. This workshop brought together leading experts in the field of British politics who will be contributing to a special edition of Parliamentary Affairs and a book to be published by Oxford University Press in the autumn of 2010.
Fiction and British Politics
11 December 2009
On 11 December 2009, Nottingham University's Centre for British Politics held a conference at the British Academy that drew together politicians, writers and academics to explore the interaction of British politics and fiction. More details including full conference report, abstracts, transcriptions, photos and podcasts.
Camerons Conservatives
12 December 2008
Do the Conservatives have what it takes to return to power? Has David Cameron taken too many liberties with the party’s traditional members? Does he have the policies to back up his rhetoric? What impact has the economic crisis had on the party’s prospects?
These crucial questions - and many more - were tackled by some of the country’s leading politicians, academics and political journalists at Cameron’s Conservatives: Approaching Government? — the inaugural conference of the Centre for British Politics at The University of Nottingham in December 2008.
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Podcast - Andrew Burden speaks to Professor Steven Fielding (Centre Director), David Willetts MP and Peter Riddell of The Times about issues raised by the conference. (Uploaded 22 December 2008) Format: mp3, 12.9MB, 13.39 mins
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Report