Date: Tuesday 1 July 2014
Time: 2pm
Venue: CLM 3.02, Clement House
Speakers: Professor John Curtice, Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Dr Matthew Goodwin, Dr Nicola McEwen, Professor Iain McLean, Professor Tony Travers
Chair: Deborah Mattinson

Scotland’s referendum on 18 September is the most momentous event in United Kingdom politics since 1945. It is possible that ‘Britain’ will cease to exist within a couple of years and that Scotland will face a future as an independent, sovereign, country for the first time since 1707. England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be affected whichever way the vote goes. Britain will never be quite the same again. This event will consider a number of different aspects of the debate about the future of Scotland and the UK.

John Curtice is professor of politics at Strathclyde University, research consultant to ScotCen, and Chief Commentator on the What Scotland Thinks website.

Professor Patrick Dunleavy is professor of political science and public policy.

Dr Matthew Goodwin is associate professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham.

Dr Nicola McEwen is senior lecturer in politics at the University of Edinburgh; associate director of research at the School of Social and Political Science and associate director of the ESRC Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change.

Professor Iain McLean is professor of politics, official fellow, Nuffield College Oxford.

Professor Tony Travers is director of LSE London, a research centre at the London School of Economics. He is also a visiting professor in the LSE’s government department.

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