Category Archives: Media

Universities as place based leaders

Can universities be more active in contributing to civic leadership in the areas where they are located?  The Bristol Civic Leadership Project believes that they can, and Robin Hambleton wrote a short article for Times Higher Education on this topic.  Published on 3 November 2016, ‘Pulling their weight‘ suggests that the new initiative by UK universities to encourage them to become more engaged with their local communities, known as Leading Places, can learn from the experiences of American public universities.

Devo Manc and the Osbornification of public policy

Far from being a positive example of decentralisation, Robin Hambleton argues that George Osborne’s proposals for ‘devo Manc’ are the latest example of ‘centralisation on steroids’.
You can read the argument in full on the LSE British Politics and Policy blog.

Talking about mayors

This week David joined Alex for the first of his Policy Unpacked podcasts. The discussion focused on elected mayors. You can listen to the discussion here.

Outputs appearing elsewhere

We’ve appeared in various places around the blogosphere over recent months talking about mayors, local government and local democracy.

Here’s a round up of some of our activity.  Continue reading

Robin Hambleton on elected mayors and our project

A ‘Bristolian Boris’?

The BBC is continuing to provide coverage of the imminent arrival of an elected mayor for Bristol. You can find the most recent piece on their website here, including comments from Robin Hambleton.

Robin also contributed to BBC Radio4’s World at One feature on the Bristol mayoral election (30th October). He points out the merits of making the more ambitious move to a metro mayor and notes the international trend towards elected mayors.  You can listen here starting at 28m 05s.