Month: February 2016

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Newsletter, 16 February 2016

Hello everyone,

A quick newsletter today. Please see information below on the following:

  1. Our events at 2016 PSA annual conference
  2. Our plans for 2016
  3. Essay competition
  4. On the blog
  5. Committee inquiries
  6. Impact conference at Warwick

If you have any notices/messages that you would like us to circulate to the group, let us know – it could be about disseminating an event, new research, new publication, etc. Please avoid sending attachments. Where possible, we would prefer circulating more substantive information through web links instead.

Best wishes,

Cristina (@estrangeirada), Louise (@LouiseVThompson) and Marc (@marcgeddes)

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Mary Creagh has become the new chair of the Environmental Audit Committee: will she be a catalyst or a chieftain?

By Marc Geddes

Please note that this blog piece has also been published on the Crick Centre blog, and is available here.

Congratulations to Mary Creagh, who has won a by-election for the chair of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC). In addition to getting to grips with her new committee’s portfolio, Mary Creagh also faces a choice on the type of chair she wishes to be – with committee-orientated catalysts at one of the spectrum of chairs, and the leadership-orientated chieftains at the other. The choice that the newly elected chair will make will have an impact on scrutiny in the House of Commons in a range of ways. In this piece, I want to explore what it means to be a catalyst and a chieftain by drawing on interviews and observations for my doctoral research, and how this might affect Mary Creagh’s leadership of the EAC.

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