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There is still time to submit your evidence to our inquiry into Civil Service Leadership and Reform. Submissions due by 20 July. Read terms of reference and instructions for submitting: committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evide…

Discussing the purpose of party conferences on The One Show bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod….

Richard Whitaker presents new work on divisions in UK House of Commons Select Committees.

Today, HyPIR at Leicester Parliamentary Studies students met Leicester West MP Liz Kendall for a Q&A session.

We are hiring a teaching fellow in European politics HyPIR at Leicester to teach from January - end of August 2024. Details here jobs.ac.uk/job/DEN447/tea…. The deadline for applications is 17 December 2023.

📢We're recruiting for our next round of Thematic Research Leads! If you're a mid-career researcher, your expertise and experience could help bring research evidence into the heart of Parliament. Find out more about which position is right for you: parliament.uk/trls/?utm_camp…

Dr Jamie Gallagher Hope this helps. Thanks very much to to our procedural whiz colleagues including Richard Whitaker who helped explain this to us. There is a longer (less X-friendly) explanation, with examples which we'd be happy to share. Send us an email if of interest: [email protected] ~Rakhi

Today in Attenborough Tower views.

As a current Thematic Research Lead, I can highly recommend these positions. If your work is on international affairs and you are interested in bringing academic research into Parliament, do consider applying or attending information session on 17 January (details in link below).

Meet Prof Richard Whitaker As a Thematic Research Lead, he has collaborated with parliamentary staff and academics across multiple projects with the aim of improving how legislation is scrutinised. Read Richard's reflections on his year in Parliament: ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/keu-trl-rick-w…

🚀 The political space in the #EuropeanParliament Using time series data across 15 years, Simon Hix Richard Whitaker & Galina Zapryanova measure MEPs' policy preferences 📑 amid the rise of #Euroscepticism 🇪🇺 👉 bit.ly/3uvlmOc #OA 🔓 #Globalisation

🚨 Post-doc opportunities available, please share! 🚨 I am looking for two post-doctoral research fellows that will work with me to study how parliaments gather, analyse and use knowledge:

On my way to #PSA24 in Glasgow and looking forward to some great PSA Parliaments and other panels.

Together with Abdul Ghafar Noury & IEP@BU, we have launched a new website, showing the roll-call votes in European Parliament by MEP, group, and country, going back to 2004 (inspired by VoteWatch Europe). You can download the data for free! Please spread the word epvm.iep.unibocconi.eu

See this POST (UK Parliament) short briefing for a really useful introduction to the challenges of public opinion polling.

This Commons Library briefing on delegated powers and framework legislation has just been published (on which I am a co-author). It gives an impartial account of how delegated legislation is used and of the trends in the use of skeleton or framework bills. shorturl.at/V2GGK

Do Parliaments matter? They are a central part of democracy but they’re often dismissed as talking shops. Join us on Wednesday 24 July at 5.30pm for Professor Richard Whitaker's Inaugural Lecture, where he will assess just how much parliaments matter. le.ac.uk/professor-whit…

Did you know that not all laws are made directly by Parliament? Some are made by ministers, and are known as delegated powers. Find out more about how they are are made, and what it means for parliamentary scrutiny, with our new research: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

What are skeleton bills and how much are they used? See my LSE British Politics and Policy on this. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…