Stevenson Lecture Series 2011-2012
This sessions' series of Stevenson Lectures in Citizenship will be on the theme of
CITIZENSHIP AND THE 'BIG SOCIETY'
The next lecture in this series will take place on:
TUESDAY 22 MAY 2012: LT.1, Boyd Orr Building, 6.00-7.30 p.m.
Professor Lord Raymond Plant
(Labour Peer and Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy, King's College London)
'Citizenship and the Idea of the 'Big Society' (Rescheduled from 1 November 2011)
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.
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.
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
The Stevenson Trust for Citizenship has appointed Dr Kevin Francis as the first ever Stevenson Fellow, a position he will hold for the period from 2009 until 2014. Kevin has worked with Andrew Lockyer over the past three years in organising the Stevenson Lecture Series and in promoting the activities of the Trust. As a result of this new appointment Kevin will be looking to develop the work for Citizenship; and he will be looking to further develop the work of the of the Stevenson Trust for Citizenship over the years ahead.