Stevenson Lecture series 2012-2014

Scotland’s Citizens: The Referendum and Beyond

This lecture programme, running up to the autumn of 2014 and stopping just before the referendum itself, will address both overtly ‘political’ matters and those of a more general nature but of concern to the citizens of Scotland. 

The Stevenson lectures are free and open to members of the general public, academics and students. School parties are welcome.

The next lecture will be:

Tuesday February 12th 2013:
Professor David McCrone
(University of Edinburgh)
Nationals or Citizens:  who should have the right to vote?

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As in previous years, this series of public lectures will bring together practitioners, commentators, academics and ticians tions of constitutional reform pose for the citizen and for our ideas of citizenship.  If you would like to be kept informed of any events taking place or wish information on the new lecture series then please email stevensontrust@gla.ac.uk and we will add you to the distribution list.

If you missed any of the lectures which have taken place in the series then you can access many of the vidoes from our archive pages.

Active Citizenship and Young People Symposium

Some of the contributors to the ‘Active Citizenship’ book (Professors John Annette, David Donnison, Pamela Munn and Andrew Lockyer) along with Scotland’s Commisoner for Children and Young People, Mr Tam Baillie, will meet to discuss issues concerning Active Citizenship and Young People on

Thursday 6th October 2011 at 6pm
in the
Sir Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow
(corner of Gibson St and University Ave).

This Symposium forms the annual Stevenson / Crick Memorial event, given in honour of the late Professor Sir Bernard Crick, not only one of the foremost poltiical theorists of the later twentieth century but arguably the person who did more than anyone to bring citizenship back to the centre of the poltiical, civic and educational agenda.

The contributors:
Professor John Annette (President, Richmond The American International University in London)
Tam Baillie (Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People)
David Donnison (Emeritus Professor in Urban Studies, Glasgow University)
Pamela Munn (Emeritus Professor of Education, Edinburgh University)
chaired by
Andrew Lockyer (Stevenson Professor of Citizenship, Glasgow University)

This event is free and open to the general public and the academic community.  School parties are welcome.

Active Citizenship Publication

Active Citizenship: What it Could Achieve and How

Edited by the late Bernard Crick, formerly of University of Edinburgh and Andrew Lockyer, University of Glasgow

Active citizenship is much discussed in political and academic circles, yet the party debates and proclaimed policies do not always seem clearly connected with actual practice.

The contributors to this book seek to remedy this by considering the possibilities for active citizenship within areas of broad concern in UK politics.  These include young people and justice, parliaments with the people; women and equality; integrating immigrants; multiculturalism; schools; community; social inclusion and poverty; Europe; nationalisms and Britishness.

In each case, the author considers the social and political consequences of the UK becoming a citizen culture, and how this aim could be achieved.

August 2010 (224pp)

Pb: ISBN 978 0 7486 3867 3
Hb: ISBN 978 0 7486 3866 6

Dr Kevin Francis appointed as the first Stevenson Fellow