Parliamentary Studies: Accountability, Power and Responsibility

User icon Heather Dray
15 May 2024
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This list has been prepared to support students enrolled in the Parliamentary Studies Module offered through 23 approved universities. Parliamentary Studies is a higher education module which is co-taught by university tutors and officials from the Houses of Parliament. It is the only higher education module formally approved by the Houses of Parliament. The module provides students with a detailed knowledge of how Parliament works in both theory and practice. It is delivered through a collaboration between the Houses of Parliament and a UK higher education institution; the institution provides academic and theoretical content, and Parliament provides practical teaching about the work, processes and business of Parliament.


RSE: Royal Society of Edinburgh · 22 February 2022 English

Through public consultation, a series of roundtable discussions and a review of the available literature and data, the RSE revisited its 2012 inquiry into women in STEM in 2018 to …


UNDP: United Nations Development Programme · 31 January 2023 English

This brief provides an overview of the background, drivers, enablers and the impact of hate speech and identifies strategies to counter it, with a focus on the role of parliaments …


The Constitution Society · 22 March 2023 English

This position called into question conventional conceptions of the UK government being formed out of Parliament, and the need (on the part of the government and/or the Prime Minister) for …


Unlock Democracy · 26 June 2023 English

This report traces developments in the quality of democracy in the United Kingdom between 2019-2023. It reveals that the UK has seen a marked decline in the quality of democracy …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 25 March 2024 English

Nearly 100 years after they gained the right to vote in the UK, women still don’t enjoy equal political power with men, argues Helen Pankhurst. Equal political representation would only …


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The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for Crown Dependencies and British …


The House of Lords, formally The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled, is the upper house …


Parliamentary procedure is the body of ethics, rules, and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies, and other deliberative assemblies. In the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, …