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Seminar 7 – Sex, Gender and Politics and Power in the UK, Jan 2017

Date and time

Tuesday 17 January 2017, 09:00-17:00

Location

IPU Room, House of Commons

Time	Session
09:00-09:15	Registration
09:15-10:45	Voice panel: Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Representing Women’s Interests in the UK – Chair: Sarah Childs (Bristol): Elizabeth Evans (Goldsmiths): Engaging Feminist Activists and Representing the Women’s Movement Peter Allen and Dave Cutts (QMUL & Birmingham): Exploring Patterns of Blame Assignment for Women’s Under-Representation in Political Institutions Roberta Guerrina (Surrey): Gendered Citizens: women’s political engagement in the 2016 EU Referendum Jess Smith and Rosie Campbell (BBK): Brexit, Gender and Public Opinion
10:45-11:15	Tea break
11.15-12:45	Access panel: Re-thinking and Reforming Political Recruitment in the UK – Chair: Peter Allen: Jeanette Ashe, Rosie Campbell, Sarah Childs and Joni Lovenduski (Douglas College, BBK, Univ of Bristol): Quota Contagion and Resistance in the Commons: understanding the institution of political recruitment Laura McAllister, Diana Stirbu and Jac Larner (Cardiff, QM): The position of women in Wales’s new democracy: breakthroughs and baby steps Meryl Kenny & Fiona Mackay (Edinburgh): High Time or High Tide? Dynamics of Women’s Political Representation in Scotland Fiona Buckley & Yvonne Galligan (UCC and Queens, University Belfast): Gender quotas: a catalyst for change in Irish politics?
12:45-13:30	Lunch
13:13-15:00	Good Parliaments Roundtable: Best practice, & Institutional Change – Chair: Emily Davies: Johanna Kantola (Uiversity of Helsinki) Lenita Freidenvall (University of Stockholm) Petra Meier (University of Antwerp) Kareen Jabre (Inter-Parliamentary Union)
15:00-15:30	Tea break
15:30-17:00	Accountablility Roundtable: Re-thinking Feminist Policy Actors and Interventions – Chair: Jessica Smith: Joni Lovenduski (BBK) Clare Annesley (Sussex) Francesca Gains (Manchester) Paul Chaney (Cardiff)