Part of the UCL Policy & Practice seminar series.
Recorded 21st March 2024
In this Policy and Practice event we will delve into the multifaceted issues surrounding the integration of immigrants in European countries. We will consider the cultural, social and economic barriers faced by immigrants, and the political pressures that sustain and, in some cases, strengthen these barriers. Participants from academia, civil society and party politics will explore effective policies to foster immigrant integration and consider how policies and strategies may need to evolve to address emerging challenges.
Speakers:
David Laitin is James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.
Marley Morris is Associate Director, Migration, Trade and Communities, at the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Christabel Cooper is Director of Research at Labour Together.
Dr Alex Hartman is Associate Professor in Political Science, UCL.
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4/16/2024
Part of the UCL Policy & Practice seminar series.
How and why do political parties use 'big data' to help them win political campaigns? And what are the implications for democracy of the increasing sophistication with which parties can identify and target voters? In this Policy & Practice event, Professor Kate Dommett will present findings from her new book on this topic, drawing on interviews with over 300 professional campaigners in five countries (Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and US). We will also delve into data-driven campaigning and its implications in the UK, hearing perspectives from Louise Edwards, a senior official at the UK’s Electoral Commission, and Dr Miriam Sorace, a political scientist currently working for the UK Labour Party's data & targeting team.
Chair: Prof. Alan Renwick is Professor of Democratic Politics and Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit in the UCL Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy.
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2/12/2024
UCL Policy & Practice seminar series 2024
In June 2019, the May Government legislated the goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Since then, the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine have wrought havoc on energy markets, while the US, with its landmark Inflation Reduction Act, made decarbonisation an industrial policy priority. In this context, the Sunak Government commissioned the Hon. Chris Skidmore MP to conduct an independent review into the government's approach to net zero. The review reiterated the opportunities and benefits to the UK of transitioning to net zero. Yet, in the 12 months since the review was published, the Government's commitment to net zero has weakened amid intensifying right-wing populist attacks.
In this event we consider what the transition to net zero demands of the UK in terms of infrastructure, technology and behaviour change, the major parties' policies, and the changing political dynamics that are shaping those policies.
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1/26/2024
Drawing on her new book 'The Zelensky Effect', co-authored with Henry E. Hale, Professor Onuch will tell the story of Ukraine through the journey of one man who has come to symbolise his country.
Olga Onuch is Professor (Chair) in Comparative and Ukrainian Politics at the University of Manchester. A scholar of comparative politics of eastern Europe and Latin America, her work looks at the motivations driving citizens to vote, protest, and/or migrate, and factors related to their media consumption, as well as identity formation and policy preferences. In addition to The Zelensky Effect and her first monograph, Mapping Mass Mobilization (2014), her work has appeared in leading journals, and she regularly appears in international media outlets.
Emma Graham-Harrison is Senior International Affairs Correspondent for The Guardian & The Observer. In this role, she has reported extensively on Russia's war in Ukraine. She has spent more than a decade reporting from Kabul, Beijing and Madrid.
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11/3/2023