List of Contributors
John Curtice is Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into
Elections and Social Trends, and Professor of Politics at the University
of Strathclyde. He has undertaken a particular interest in recent years
in the impact of devolution on public opinion across the United Kingdom,
most recently co-editing Devolution — Scottish Answers to Scottish Questions?
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003).
Helen Fawcett is Jean Monnet Fellow in European Public Policy
at the University of Strathclyde. Her research focuses on comparative public
policy. She has examined the impact of constitutional change on the welfare
state, with special reference to social exclusion policy as part of the
ESRC’s Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme. She has recently
edited a special issue of Political Quarterly on devolution and
welfare reform.
Oonagh Gay has worked in the House of Commons Library for 20
years. She is currently senior researcher in the Parliament and Constitution
Centre where she specialises in several aspects of parliamentary reform,
parliamentary standards, electoral law, public administration and devolution.
She has also published a number of articles in specialist journals and
is a member of the Study of Parliament Group, and the Association of Electoral
Administrators. She has completed an 18 month secondment to the Constitution
Unit, University College London, where she was responsible for the Unit’s
Leverhulme funded work on Devolution and Westminster.
Robert Hazell is the Director of the Constitution Unit and Professor
of Government and the Constitution in the School of Public Policy, University
College London. Originally a barrister, he spent most of his working life
at the Home Office. He left Whitehall to become director of the Nuffield
Foundation and founded the Constitution Unit in 1995. He is the director
of a five year research programme into the Dynamics of Devolution funded
by the Leverhulme Trust.
Peter Hetherington is Regional Affairs Editor of The Guardian
and a visiting professor at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development
Studies.
Guy Lodge is a Research Assistant at the Constitution Unit, in
the School of Public Policy, UCL. He works on a range of devolution projects
as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded Nations and Regions programme and
the ESRC-funded Devolution and Constitutional Change programme. He writes
the quarterly monitoring report on Devolution and the Centre.
John Osmond is Director of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, and
has written widely on Welsh culture and politics. Recent edited volumes
include: Birth of Welsh Democracy: The First Term of the National Assembly
for Wales and Second Term Challenge: Can the Welsh Assembly Government
Hold its Course?, both published by the IWA in 2003. A former journalist
and television producer, he is a Fellow of the University of Wales Institute,
Cardiff, and a Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the Constitution Unit,
University College, London.
Meg Russell has been Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution
Unit, UCL, since 1998. She is author of various reports and briefings on
parliament and its reform, and of Reforming the House of Lords: Lessons
from Overseas (OUP, 2000). She is the lead researcher on the Leverhulme
funded project ‘The Impact of Devolution on Westminster’. She was seconded
full time as an adviser to Robin Cook in his role as Leader of the House
of Commons from June 2001—March 2003, during which time Oonagh Gay led
this project.
Mark Sandford is a Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit,
University College London. He leads the Unit’s research on regional government,
and was co-author of the report Unexplored Territory: Elected Regional
Assemblies in England. He has also researched aspects of strategy-making
and civic engagement in the English regions. Mark also leads a substantial
project examining scrutiny processes at all levels of government. He is
a sociologist by training, with a BSc from the University of Bristol and
an MA from Goldsmiths College.
John Tomaney is Co-Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional
Development Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Alan Trench is a Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit,
working on intergovernmental relations both in the United Kingdom and comparatively.
A solicitor by profession, he was specialist adviser to the House of Lords
Select Committee on the Constitution for their inquiry into Devolution:
Inter-Institutional Relations in the United Kingdom in 2001–03.
Rick Wilford is Professor of Politics at Queen’s University,
Belfast and co-leader with Robin Wilson of the Northern Ireland monitoring
project team. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Northern
Ireland politics and devolution.
Robin Wilson has been director of the think tank Democratic Dialogue
since its foundation in 1995. Along with Prof Rick Wilford of Queen’s University,
he is co-leader of the Northern Ireland team in the devolution monitoring
project co-ordinated by the Constitution Unit, of which they are both honorary
senior research fellows. He is a member of the board of the Institute of
Governance at Queen’s University and of the advisory council of the Dublin-based
think tank TASC. He chairs the policy committee of the Northern Ireland
Community Relations Council and is an adviser to the Council of Europe
project on intercultural dialogue and conflict prevention.
