Our dynamic research centres host regular public events featuring high profile speakers from around the world.
The Mile End Institute (MEI) and Centre for European Research (CER) are based with the School of Politics and International Relations. Both are dynamic centres, hosting public events featuring high profile speakers from the world of British, and European politics, that provide our students with unique networking opportunities. Recently, MEI and CER have run popular online podcast and video series with well-known practitioners, thinkers and authors (thanks to their excellent connections) such as Marie Le Conte and Tim Harford as guests.
The Mile End Institute brings together politicians, policymakers, academics, and the public to debate the major challenges facing the country and its capital in a fast-moving world. In a recent episode of their podcast series, Tim Bale is joined by political economist and academic, Thomas Prosser (Cardiff University), and columnist Rafael Behr (The Guardian). They discuss Tom’s book ‘What’s in it for me? Self-interest and political difference’, including the problems currently faced by social democratic parties at home and abroad, and the importance of recognising self-interest in an age of increasingly tribal politics.
The Centre for European Research has been awarded the prestigious Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for its project NEXTEUK on the future of EU-UK relations, as the UK left the European Union. Watch their recent discussion 'Brexit and the state of democracy' below.