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Constitution Unit Fellows are senior academics at other universities who are closely associated with our work, and who contribute frequently to our publications, events and/or research.
Professor Justin Fisher听
Justin Fisher is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Magna Carta Institute and Head of the Department of Politics, History & the Brunel Law School at Brunel University London. He has acted as an advisor to many political bodies, including Parliament, the Ministry of Justice, the Committee on Standards in Public Life, the Electoral Commission and the Council of Europe. His work focuses principally on political parties and elections - especially areas related to party finance and campaigning. He is currently Principal Investigator of an ESRC-funded study of Constituency Campaigning at the .听&驳迟;听
Professor Michael Kenny
Professor Michael Kenny is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.听Prior to Cambridge, Michael held positions at: Queen's University, Belfast; the University of Sheffield, where he was appointed Head of Department; and Queen Mary University of London, where he was the inaugural Director of the Mile End Institute. He currently sits on the Leverhulme Trust's Advisory Committee, is co-director of the British Academy's "Governing England" programme, and is a member of an external experts panel convened by the Scottish Parliament to advise on the constitutional implications of Brexit.Fellow at the 听>
Professor听Cristina Leston-Bandeira听
Cristina Leston-Bandeira is Professor of Politics at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds. She is the Co-Convenor of the听PSA Parliaments and Legislatures specialist group听and she works in the area of comparative legislatures. Cristina's research has recently focused on parliament and public engagement and she is currently co-leading a project on how the UK Parliament engages the public in the legislative process.听&驳迟;听
Professor Andrew Le Sueur
Andrew Le Sueur is Professor of Constitutional Justice at the University of Essex and is involved in practical law reform issues as a member of the Jersey Law Commission. His interests span constitutional and administrative law, including courts and the 'justice infrastructure', judicial review and the challenges faced by very small legal systems. He is part of the team leading development of the Nuffield Foundation's cross disciplinary UK Administrative Justice Institute.听&驳迟;听
Professor Kate Malleson听
Kate Malleson is Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London. Her main research interests are the judiciary, the legal system and the constitution. She has a particular interest in judicial selection processes and the challenge of increasing diversity in the composition of the judiciary. She recently completed, with colleagues from the Constitution Unit and Birmingham University, a three year AHRC funded project on 'The politics of judicial independence in the UK's changing constitution'. Its finding were published in a book of the same title by CUP in 2015.听&驳迟;听
Professor Nicola McEwen
Nicola McEwen is a Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the College of Social Sciences and Director of the听听at the University of Glasgow. Nicola听was听previously at Edinburgh University from 2001, first as Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in 2006, and as Professor of Territorial Politics from 2014. She was founding Co-Director of the听, where she remains a Research Fellow. From 2019-2022 Nicola听lead听research on intergovernmental relations as part of the ESRC-funded project,听. She has published widely in the field of territorial politics, multi-level government and nationalism, and is actively involved in informing debate within the wider policy and political community, through media work, consultancy and public engagement. She convenes the Scottish Parliament External Experts Panel, and is currently a seconded听adviser on intergovernmental relations in听the Scottish Government.听&驳迟;听
Professor Petra Schleiter
Petra Schleiter is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.听Petra is a comparative political scientist whose research examines how political institutions shape representation and accountability. Her comparative approach informs her work on the UK constitution. She has published on the implications of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act (2011), the UK's caretaker conventions and recognition rules, placing these constitutional features in comparative context. She regularly gives evidence to parliamentary committees.听&驳迟;听
Professor Richard Wyn Jones
Richard Wyn Jones is Director of the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University and has written extensively on constitutional developments in Wales, on nationalism, and on sub-state regional governance in Europe. Richard has also been centrally involved in all the election surveys conducted in Wales since 1997 and is Co-Director of the Future of England Surveys that have traced the growing politicisation of English national identity.听&驳迟;听
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