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Scrutinising the candidates about women’s issues and equality
The candidates for Bristol’s first elected mayor are in the middle of a pretty gruelling period of campaigning. They have participated in a number of Hustings focusing on particular themes, sectors or...
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Election turnout in mayoral and Police and Crime Commissioner elections
Bristol City Council has published the figures for the election turnout for the Bristol mayoral election, and for the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) election. The breakdown for...
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Mayoral election result: First round of counting
The results for the first round of counting are available here. George Ferguson (31,321 votes), and Marvin Rees (25,896 votes) proceed to the next round of counting, while all other 13 candidates are...
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Mayoral election result
After the second round of the count the result of the mayoral election was duly announced. The winner was the independent candidate, George Ferguson (37,353 votes). Marvin Rees for Labour finished...
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Prospects Report to be published
The final report of our Prospects study will be published on Friday 22nd March. It will be launched at City Hall. The report will be available to download from this site from Friday.
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Livetweeting the launch
Our Prospects report will be launched tomorrow afternoon at an event starting at 4pm. The report will then be available to download for free from our website. For those who are not able to join us we...
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Prospects report launched
Our prospects report was launched on Friday at City Hall. Mayor Ferguson was present to offer his initial response to the findings. The report can be downloaded from Our Publications page. A brief news...
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Back online
This site has been rather inactive since the publication of our Prospects report back in March. The members of the research team has nonetheless being thinking and writing about issues related to...
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Outputs appearing elsewhere
We’ve appeared in various places around the blogosphere over recent months talking about mayors, local government and local democracy. Here’s a round up of some of our activity. David posted The world...
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Talking about mayors
This week David joined Alex for the first of his Policy Unpacked podcasts. The discussion focused on elected mayors. You can listen to the discussion here.
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Academic article published
The work that the Bristol Civic Leadership Project team has been undertaking is contributing to academic debates on city leadership. An article by Robin Hambleton and David Sweeting has appeared in the...
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Policy Briefing published from Bristol Civic Leadership Project
Significant insights that are emerging from the Bristol Civic Leadership Project are contained in a short ‘Policy Briefing’, published via Policy Bristol. The Briefing, written by David Sweeting...
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Devo Manc and the Osbornification of public policy
Far from being a positive example of decentralisation, Robin Hambleton argues that George Osborne’s proposals for ‘devo Manc’ are the latest example of ‘centralisation on steroids’. You can read the...
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Leading the Inclusive City
In a new, international book Robin Hambleton examines the role of civic leadership in fostering the creation of inclusive cities. The analysis presented in Leading the Inclusive City suggests that...
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Policy report published on mayoral governance in Bristol
We have produced a policy report on mayoral governance in Bristol. You can read the report, which includes analysis of data from before and after the introduction of mayoral governance in the city,...
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What Bristol tells us about how to lead cities
Robin Hambleton comments on lessons from Bristol for other cities in England. First published on the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) website on 31 March 2015 he suggests that the centralisation...
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Can universities be more active in contributing to civic leadership in the areas where they are located? The Bristol Civic Leadership Project believes that they can, and Robin Hambleton wrote a short...
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Directly elected mayors in urban governance: impact and practice
David Sweeting has edited a wide-ranging, international book on directly elected mayors. Published by Policy Press in March 2017, under the title Directly elected mayors in urban governance: Impact...
View ArticleBritish universities – the sleeping giants of place-based leadership?
The Civic University Commission, launched by the University Partnerships Programme (UPP) in March 2018, is an important effort to lift the quality of debate about the changing role of British...
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