Events

TALKS, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS:

*24th May 2018, presentation on Tory party members at Conservative Campaign Head Quarter (CCHQ)
Speaker: Tim Bale

*13th March 2018, presentation on Lib Dem members at Lib Dem HQ
Speaker: Paul Webb, Tim Bale and Monica Poletti

*6th March 2018, h.12:00-14:00, Women at the Grassroots, Social Market Foundation
Speaker: Monica Poletti (PMP data), together with 4 MPs: Nicky Morgan (Tories), Jess Phillips (Labour), Jo Swinson (Lib Dem), Kirsty Blackman (SNP)

*6th February 2018, h.12:30-13:30, Crisis and Reinvention: The State of the Left,
Mile End Institute
Speaker: Monica Poletti, Andrew Hindmoor, Patrick Diamond

*29th January 2018, h. 14:00-17:00, University of Sheffield/Green Party membership workshop
Speaker (among others): Monica Poletti, Paul Webb, Kate Dommett

*24th October 2017, h.12.00-14.00, Institute for Government – Political Studies Association:
Election campaigning laid bare: new research on the nature and impact of election campaigns
Speaker: Paul Webb (PMP data), Justin Fisher, Cees van der Eijk, Annemarie Walter
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*9th October 2017, h. 18:30-20:00, British Academy – The Conversation:
Youthquake 2017! Can young voters transform the UK’s political landscape?
Speaker: Monica Poletti (PMP data), Paul Whiteley, Sharon Coen and Benjamin Bowman
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*3rd October 2017, h.10:30am-12:00pm, TRG.
Building a winning coalition, campaigning to win #CPC17
Speaker: Tim Bale

*7th September 2017, h. 12:30, Social Market Foundation (SMF) 2017.
Ask the expert seminar: ‘Conservative party members in 2017: who are they and what do they want?‘
Speaker: Monica Poletti (PMP data)
Video

Related HuffPost blog post – presentation slides – SMF blog post

*16th February 2017, Party Members in the UK: Some Initial Findings, Exeter University
Speaker: Tim Bale

*11th November 2016, The Representative Audit of Britain Project workshop, Birbeck University of London, UK: Candidate selection: a view from the grassroots.
Speaker: Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb.
[presented also at SPIR seminar, Queen Mary University of London, 23rd November 2016]

*4th November 2016, Party Leadership and Intra-Party Politics, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK. What do grassroots members do for their parties during election campaigns – and why do they do it? Explaining the activism of British party members in the general election of 2015
Speaker: Paul Webb, Monica Poletti and Tim Bale

*26th October 2016, h.18:00-20:30, Launch of the Political Studies Association – Early Career Network (ECN), Houses of Parliament, London, UK. Politics in Interesting Times, findings from the ESRC Party Members Project in the UK.
Keynote speaker: Monica Poletti
Venue: Palace of Westminster, London SW1A 2PW

*12-23 September 2016, ECPR – 26th PhD Summer School in Political Parties, Political Parties in Times of Crisis, University of Notthingham, UK (programme).  Assessing Party Organizational Change: Participation, Representation and Power.
Speaker: Paul Webb

*6th September 2016, h. 13:00, Social Market Foundation (SMF) 2016. Ask the expert seminar: ‘Revolting peasants?’ Labour’s changing membership: who they are and what they want.
Speaker: Tim Bale.
presentation slides – report of seminar

*7th July 2016, h. 13:15- 15:15, Electoral Reform Society-McDougall Trust. Why do people join political parties today, and what do they do for them?
Speakers: Tim Bale, Paul Webb
Chair: Michael Steed McDougall Trust
Venue: Robert Runcie Room (basement level), Church House Conference Centre, Dean’s Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ

About the topic:  The talk will review the data the speakers have been gathering, and report a range of key findings about those who join political parties, their reasons for doing so, and the political activities they undertake.  The speakers hope to add a few thoughts on why people do not join parties as well.

*27th April 2016, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK: “So who really does the donkey work? Comparing the election campaign activity of party members and party supporters“. Speakers: Paul Webb and Monica Poletti.

*25th November 2015, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK: “The report of my death was an exaggeration”. Party membership in 21st century Britain
Speaker: Tim Bale


OTHER IMPACT:

*16th January 2018, House of Commons Library: Membership of UK political parties (pdf)

*4th January 2018, Pamphlet with main project findings distributed to all MPs
By Tim Bale, Paul Webb and Monica Poletti
Grassroots – Britain’s party members: who they are, what they think and what they do

*December 2017, Committee on standards in public life: Intimidation in public life, a review by the Committee on standards in public life

*17th October 2017, Committee on standards in public life: Intimidation of Parliamentary candidates: roundtable transcript
Speaker: Tim Bale (pdf)

*13th October 2016: Anti-semitism in the UK. Tenth report of session 2016-2017, House of Commons – Home Affair Committee (pdf)

* June 2016: Chakrabarti Inquiry on anti-semitism in the Labour Party. By Shami Chakrabarti (our contribution to the inquiry here)

* 2016: Centre for English Identity and Politics at the University of Winchester:
Labour’s identity crisis: England and the Politics of Patriotism – Edited by Tristram Hunt MP

PARTICIPATION AT FRINGE EVENTS OF POLITICAL PARTIES ANNUAL CONFERENCES:

*4-6th October 2015, Conservative Annual Conference, Manchester, UK. Policy Exchange fringe event.

*27-30th September 2015, Labour Annual Conference, Brighton, UK. Centre Forum fringe event.

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*24-26th September 2015, UKIP Annual Conference, Doncaster, UK.

*19th-23rd September 2015, Liberal Democrats Annual Conference, Bornemouth, UK.