Events
Women of Westminster, by Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves MP will present her recent book Women of Westminster, and discuss how the role and work of women MPs has changed over decades, since the first woman MP was elected and took her seat in Parliament a century ago. In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton,…
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Parliamentary petitions and public engagement: an empirical analysis of the role of e-petitions
In this seminar, Professor Leston-Bandeira will present her latest article on e-petitions to parliament. Legislatures around the world are experimenting with online petitions as a means of enabling the public to express policy preferences. In some countries they have attracted an extraordinarily large number of signatories, but it is often unclear what, if anything, they…
Public Engagement and Its Impact on Parliaments
The UK House of Commons and the Centre for Democratic Engagement have joined forces to co-host a one day international workshop about parliamentary public engagement, focusing particularly on its impact on parliaments and their scrutiny processes. The workshop will bring together parliamentary officials and academics from all over the world to discuss key challenges and…
Researchers Turning Activists: Climate Emergency and the Alliance between Scientists and Environmental Activists
Over the past year the unfolding crisis of climate change was brought back to public attention and the political agenda thanks to environmental protests by Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future and others. Many researchers, who work on climate change and its wider consequences, came forward to speak out and support the protests, some even joined…
Women and Power, by Professor Mary Beard – Alice Bacon annual lecture
Renowned scholar Professor Mary Beard is to give the latest public lecture in a University of Leeds series celebrating strong women. Choosing Women and Power as her subject, the University of Cambridge Professor of Classics will give the 2020 Alice Bacon Lecture. Date to be announced soon (this has been postponed from the 13 March). The annual…
What makes engagement meaningful?
Achieving meaningful public engagement can be a difficult endeavour. Once you’ve figured out the topic, format, and target audience, there’s the problem of how the views are actually going to be used and how people may react to the outcomes. This is even harder when you represent a public-facing institution that 47% of the public…
Regulatory Decision Making: Who Do the Public Trust?
Dr Jo Hawkins will be speaking about making regulatory decisions and exploring who the public trust. Trust in actors dealing with risk has come to be recognised as an important factor in shaping the overall public perception of / acceptance of risk and decisions involving risk. This is because public concerns about developments are not…
How compulsory voting shapes citizens and political parties
In this seminar, CDE Associate Member Dr Shane Singh, will discuss his work on compulsory elections and behavioural outcomes. He will draw from the monograph he is currently working on, entitled Beyond Turnout: how compulsory voting shapes citizens and political parties. Turning out to vote is legally required in nearly 30 countries. While Bulgaria, Samoa,…
Augmented Democracy in Smart Cities
Evangelos Pournaras, from the School of Computing, will draw from his research on augmented democracy, to discuss the impact and value of this approach to understand citizen engagement. Smart Cities evolve into complex and pervasive urban environments with a citizens’ mandate to meet sustainable development goals. Repositioning democratic values of citizens’ choices in these complex…
CDE Postgraduate Workshop
This workshop will focus on the General Election. The CDE postgraduate workshops are informal gatherings where we discuss issues chosen by our PhD students. This is an opportunity for PhDs to receive feedback and advice on specific issues, methods, concepts they may be working on. The workshops sometimes also focus on academic skills, such as…
Hansard as a research tool – finding patterns, making links
This event will introduce the Hansard at Huddersfield website and explain the rationale behind it as well as suggesting how it might be of interest to researchers in fields where political data is relevant. We are corpus linguists, but we have long believed that our techniques should be available to researchers beyond our discipline, without…