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Talking about Gypsies: the notion of discourse as control.

Gypsies and Travellers are increasingly part of a debate by politicians and the media in the U.K. This discourse is not a benign reflection of events; instead it is part of a complex mechanism of control. There is a difficult ...

Citizenship appears to be one of the new buzz words, not just in education, but covering many aspects of our lives. Typing the word ‘citizenship’ into the Google search engine, for example, results in over 1.7 million ...

Teaching political science in Europe.

Goldsmith, M.; Goldsmith, C. (Article)

Teaching politics in an era of Trump

Blair, Alasdair; Stockemer, Daniel (Article)

One of the most important challenges facing Political Science Faculty is the way in which the curriculum engages with, and responds to, the populist tide that has spread across a significant number of countries in recent ...

Teaching Politics in UK Universities: A Survey of the Profession

Blair, Alasdair; Bromage, Adrian; Curtis, Steven (Article)

In recent years one of the most significant changes in UK Universities has been the increased use of virtual learning environments (VLE) as a method of supporting learning and teaching. This has in part been influenced by ...

Teaching Public Affairs – The Cinderella Subject of Journalism Courses

Jones, Alistair; Clark, Torrin (Conference)

Public Affairs: Even the name of the serious part of Journalism courses is problematic. For years this absolutely essential, but often maligned, part of so many university Journalism courses, has been taught by ‘a guy ...

Thatcher’s Children: Female Westminster Parliamentarians who claim influence of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) as their political inspiration.

Stafford, Max (Conference)

Thatcher’s Children: Female Westminster Parliamentarians who claim the influence of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) as their political inspiration.

Stafford, Max (Conference)

Theories of urban politics.

Davies, Jonathan S.; Imbroscio, D. L. (Book)

Think tanks, post communism and democracy in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe

Sandle, Mark (Book chapter)

Thinking globally, acting locally?: the women’s sector, international human rights mechanisms and politics in Northern Ireland

Thomson, Jennifer (Article)

Thinking on Housing: Words, Memories, use

King, Peter (Book)

Thinking the ‘Culture Wars’ and the Present Political Crisis With the Young Marx (and Friends)

Whitham, Ben (Article)

We stand at a key juncture: a Western political crisis arose in 2016-17 to match the deep eco-nomic crisis of the preceding decade. Events and new social movements of recent years seem to hail the collapse of the project ...

The third sector

Chapman, R. C. (Book chapter)

To drive or to use the bus? An Exploratory Study of Older People in Malta

Misfud, Deborah; Attard, Maria; Ison, Stephen (Article)

Older adults are becoming a larger portion of the world’s population, and as a result, more attention is being given to their mobility and travel behaviour. Such studies are however lacking in certain contexts like in ...

To what extent is there a regional logic in the management of labour in multinational companies? Evidence from Europe and North America

Edwards, Tony; Jalette, P.; Tregaskis, Olga (Article)

Tony Blair

Blair, Alasdair (Other)

Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 until 27 June 2007, having been elected the youngest leader of the Labour Party on 21 July 1994. In office he had the distinction of winning three ...