{"id":11,"date":"2020-03-17T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:43:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Alistair Clark is Reader in Politics at Newcastle University. His research interests revolve around political parties, party organisation, electoral integrity and administration, and urban\/local politics. Related interests include: comparative party systems and small party challenges; devolved and British party politics; voting behaviour and electoral systems. Alistair Clark\u2019s doctoral research, entitled \u2018Local Parties, Participation and Campaigning in Post-Devolution Scotland\u2019, won the 2007 Political Studies Association Arthur McDougall Prize for Elections, Electoral Systems and Representation. His research has been funded by the ESRC, the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Clark has given expert evidence to the Scottish parliament, House of Commons and House of Lords and regularly engages with practitioners and policymakers. He is also regularly invited to comment on political matters in the UK and international media. He has provided expert analysis on general election results for the BBC World Service for the 2015, 2017 and 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Clark is currently co-editor of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) \/ European Journal for Political Research <a href=\"https:\/\/ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/20478852\">Political Data Yearbook<\/a> (PDY). \u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Qualifications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PG Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET) (2009) Queen\u2019s University Belfast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PhD (2006) Political Studies, University of Aberdeen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MRes (2003) Political Research, University of Aberdeen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MA (Hons) (2001) Politics and International Relations (First Class), University of Aberdeen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Previous positions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2007-2011: Lecturer in Political Science and Research Methods, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen\u2019s University Belfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2005-2007: Research Fellow, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Political Science, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017-2019: House of Commons\/Political Studies Association Parliamentary Fellowship&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Dr. Alistair Clark is Reader in Politics at Newcastle University. His research interests revolve around political parties, party organisation, electoral integrity and administration, and urban\/local politics. Related interests include: comparative party systems and small party challenges; devolved and British &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8364,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/alistairclark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}