Responsibilities

Teaching

• Introduction to Politics
• Modern British Politics
• Politics of Hunger: globalisation, governance and greed

Other Responsibilities

Programme Leader, Politics

Pastoral Care Tutor, Politics and Public Services

Background

Research

• Impact of the EU on the UK
• regionalism
• local government
• democracy and legitimacy
• African politics and development politics

Academic Background

• BA Politics with Social and Economic History (CNAA)
• PhD (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Principal Lecturer
• MMU since 1992

Publications

The European Union and British Democracy: towards convergence (Macmillan, 2000)

Legitimating the European Union: aspirations, inputs and performance (Palgrave 2007)

articles on democracy, transparency in the European Union, UK regionalism and the European Parliament. Contribution to edited volume (Juliet Lodge) on the 1999 European Parliament elections. chapters on the impact of the EU in O'Neill (ed) Devolution in the UK; impact of EU enlargement on democracy and legitimacy in Nugent (ed): Enlargement and the European Union. Chapter on Wilsonian regionalism in Dorey (ed): The Labour Governments 1964-1970 (London, Routledge).