Responsibilities

• British political development
• Politics of the British State
• UK Foreign Policy since 1918

Background

Academic Background

• BA (CNAA), PhD (Manchester), DMA
• Professor of Politics
• MMU since 1978 (formerly Manchester City Council)

Research

• Civil service/administrative history
  
• Public Service ethics
• British foreign policy
  

Memberships

• Joint University Council Public Administration Committee
• Political Studies Association 

Publications

Liberal Lion: Jo Grimond, A Political Life (I.B. Tauris, 2005) 

Encyclopaedia of twentieth century British and Irish Political Organisations: parties, groups and movements of the twentieth century with Mike Tyldesley and John McHugh (Pinter 2000)

The Elite of the Elite: Permanent Secretaries in the British Higher Civil Service, Dartmouth, 1996

The Whitehall Reader (editor), Open University Press, 1996

Government, Industry and Political Economy (with Tim May) Open University Press, 1993

- plus chapters in edited volumes and other contributions, including recent journal articles in Public Policy and Administration; Public Adminstration; Yearbook of European Administrative History.