RESEARCHING ENGLAND

A joint seminar of the DETR Local and Regional Government Research Programme and the ESRC Research Programme on Devolution and Constitutional Change
26 March 2001

At the Japan Centre, University of Birmingham

12.00                       Arrival and Lunch
13.00                       Wendy Russell Barter (DETR): An overview of the DETR Research Programme
13.45                       Brief presentations from ESRC project teams, including:

John Tomaney & Peter Hetherington (Newcastle): Monitoring Devolution – the England network
John Curtice (Strathclyde/CREST): National Identity and Constitutional Change in England
Adam Tickell (Bristol): Building Institutions in a Vacuum? Devolution and England’s South East
Dave Valler (Sheffield): Devolution and the Politics of Business Representation

15.00                       Coffee

15.15                       More ESRC presentations:
Andrew Scott  (Europa Institute, Edinburgh): ‘Asymmetric’ Devolution and EU Policy-Making
David Heald (Aberdeen): Financial Arrangements for Devolved Government
Mark Goodwin (Aberystwyth): Constitutional Change and Economic Governance – Territories and Institutions
John Loughlin (Cardiff): Devolution and Public Policy – Convergence or Divergence
16.15           George Morran (WMCC); establishing the W. Midlands Constitutional Convention               

16.45                      Close

Also attending:                    
Chris Caswill  (Director of Research, ESRC),  Andrew Tucker (DETR),
Bill Lawton (Political Officer, Canadian High Commission), John Adams (CFER)