A few weeks ago, a colleague wrote a piece outlining the various reasons why Newcastle University is a great place to come to study politics at the postgraduate level. In it, he detailed the different courses you can study, the engagement with staff and researchers, the active postgraduate community, and the potential funding and career opportunities that might come from studying here. Another reason he mentioned was that Newcastle is a great place to live. I’d like to build on that point in this blog post. Continue reading Newcastle is a great place to live as well as study
Monthly Archives: June 2014
HaSS PGR Conference
Tomorrow, I’m presenting at the Humanities and Social Science Faculty’s Postgraduate Research Conference. The conference brings together students from a wide range of subjects and disciplines. The full conference schedule is here, and my own abstract on ‘The importance of local parties and incumbency to the electoral prospects of the Liberal Democrats’ is here.
Come along!
Reports of the Lib Dems’ demise are premature
A post I wrote for The Conversation, largely in response to Daniel Hannan MEP’s post last week in The Telegraph about the end of the Liberal Democrats.