Jack Sheldon

Institution

Bennett Institute for Public Policy

Job title

Research Assistant, 'Between Two Unions - The Constitutional Future of the Islands after Brexit'

Email address

js2395@cam.ac.uk

Biography

Jack Sheldon is a Research Assistant at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy working with Professor Michael Kenny on the ESRC funded project ‘Between Two Unions: The Constitutional Future of the Islands after Brexit’.

Prior to joining the University of Cambridge in January 2016, Jack was a Research Assistant at the Constitution Unit, University College London. At the Constitution Unit he co-authored a report on Options for an English Parliament and was editor of the Constitution Unit blog and newsletter.

Jack holds an MA in Politics and Contemporary History from King’s College London and a BA in Politics from Queen Mary, University of London. In October 2018 he will begin a PhD at Cambridge, funded by the ESRC. His doctoral research will focus on the impact changes to the UK’s territorial constitution have had on the roles performed by MPs at Westminster.

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Posts by this author

Brexit

A first glimpse of post-Brexit politics? England’s May 2021 elections

19 April 2021 | Jack Sheldon

Jack Sheldon looks ahead to the mayoral and local elections in England which will be held on 6th May. He suggests that they could provide a first glimpse of the shape England’s post-Brexit politics might take, but that the election which seems likely have the most lasting impact on the course of English politics (and that of the wider UK) will be that in Scotland.

Brexit, Independence and the Union

The Future of the Union

1 February 2021 | Michael Kenny, Jack Sheldon

Will Brexit lead to the break up of the UK? Michael Kenny and Jack Sheldon, University of Cambridge discuss in their contribution to UK in a Changing Europe's 'Brexit and Beyond' report.

Brexit, Independence and the Union

Unionism, Conservative thinking and Brexit

27 July 2020 | Michael Kenny, Jack Sheldon

Has the Conservative Party abandoned its unionist heritage to focus on other goals? Michael Kenny and Jack Sheldon, University of Cambridge, explore how the Union featured in the Conservative Party's elites during Theresa May's premiership, and argue that a more assertive and self-conscious type of unionism has displaced the more pragmatic unionism of previous decades.

Devolution

How can relations between the UK's governments be made more effective?

6 July 2020 | Nicola McEwen, Michael Kenny, Jack Sheldon, Coree Brown Swan

After Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic, how can intergovernmental relations in the UK be more effective? Nicola McEwen, Michael Kenny, Jack Sheldon and Coree Brown Swan discuss.

Devolution

Why have the UK's governments diverged on easing lockdown?

11 May 2020 | Jack Sheldon, Michael Kenny

Jack Sheldon and Michael Kenny consider why Boris Johnson’s televised address on a phased approach to easing lockdown has sparked public disagreements with the devolved governments, and the implications these differences might have for future relations between the governments of the UK.

Devolution

Territorial governance and the coronavirus crisis

8 April 2020 | Michael Kenny, Jack Sheldon

Michael Kenny and Jack Sheldon, University of Cambridge, discuss the seemingly co-ordinated approach from governments throughout the UK in response to the coronavirus, but all may not be as harmonious as it seems.