Past events

30 September 2025, 6:00pm

CANCELLED: Still a Model? What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from German Federalism

This event explores whether German federalism still offers useful lessons for Scotland and the UK. It will consider how Germany's system of territorial governance has evolved, what challenges it now faces, and how this experience might inform ongoing debates about devolution, democracy, and reform in Scotland and the wider UK.

27 February 2025, 3:30pm

Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories

Scholarship on international sovereignty generally adopts a binary conception: territories either have international recognition, or they lack it and remain unrecognized entities within fragmented states.

07 February 2025, 3:00pm

Money Talks: Business and the Politics of Independence

Why do independence movements win overwhelming support nearly everywhere except in wealthy democracies of the global North?

02 February 2025, 9:30am

2nd February - Unpicking The ‘Scalar Fallacy’? The Present and Future of Devolved and Local UK Welfare Social Policies

Studies of UK social policies that fail to understand the multi-level competencies and policy differences of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland may contribute to creating a ‘scalar fallacy’ of a single and unified UK welfare state.

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CANCELLED: Still a Model? What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from German Federalism

Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories

Money Talks: Business and the Politics of Independence

2nd February - Unpicking The ‘Scalar Fallacy’? The Present and Future of Devolved and Local UK Welfare Social Policies