I have over 11 years of teaching and experience in the further education sector specialising in Politics, Geography, Sociology, Economics, Business Studies and Religious Studies. I enjoy creating educational resources that boost students understanding and confidence. I am an established TES author with many new exciting resources in the pipeline. I offer a range of resources for A Level.
I have over 11 years of teaching and experience in the further education sector specialising in Politics, Geography, Sociology, Economics, Business Studies and Religious Studies. I enjoy creating educational resources that boost students understanding and confidence. I am an established TES author with many new exciting resources in the pipeline. I offer a range of resources for A Level.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: What is the Judiciary? UK Legal System, the Judiciary & the Westminster Model, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Judicial Independence, the Way Things Used to Be, Challenges to the Traditional Balance, Judges Vs Home Secretaries, Strength of Judicial Review in 1990s, the Growing Political Role of the UK Judiciary: Key Factors, European Communities Act, 1972, Judicial Review, Human Rights Act, 1998, Human Rights Act, Articles 2-18, Human Rights Act, 1998, the Impact of Devolution, Constitutional Reform Act, 2005 and Is this a Stable Arrangement?
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Origins of Conservatism, Theological Conservatives, Paternalism, Traditional Values, All In This Together? Prag-Grenade, Conservatism/Human Nature, Enlightenment, Pessimistic Conservatism, Tory Boy, Edmund Burke - Traditionalism, Robert Peel, Tamworth Manifesto, Revolutionary Industrialism, The Split, Paternal Conservativism – One Nation, Disraeli, After Disraeli's Death, How Successful Was One Nation Conservatism? Progressive Conservatism, New Right, Neo-Conservatism, Neo Conservatism – George Bush, Neo-Economics, Cultural Ignorance, Neo Liberalism, Neo Liberalism – Margaret Thatcher, Combative Conservatism, Christian Democrats and Nationalists, Neo-Nazi Mania, Conservativism Evolution, Society Does Not Exist? Individualism, Property Ownership, No Ideology, The Empiricism Sceptics and Key Quotes.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: The Lords in Context: Historical Evolution; Changing Constitutional Position, the Functions of the Lords, Current Membership, House of Lords Reform, Strength / Weakness of Current and Possible Systems.
Comprehensive Presentation that covers: the Process of Devolution in the United Kingdom, how Power has Decentralised from Westminster and Transitioned to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the English Question as well as the Post-Devolutionary Environment such as the Rise of the SNP and the Story of Welsh Nationalism which differs from Scotland.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Home Rule Bills for Ireland, the Growth of Unionism, the Growth of Nationalism, Government of Ireland Act, Devolution after 1920, Differing Perspectives on the devolved Unionist Government from 1920, the 1937 Irish Free State Constitution Deal, How Realistic Were Unionist Fears? Excuse or Explanation for Discrimination? to What Extent were Nationalists to Blame? Self-Exclusion from Devolved Government, Possibilities for the Reform of Devolved Government by the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, the Inability of the Devolved Government to Adequately Reform, a Difficult-to-Reform Polity, the British Response to the Problems of the Unionist Devolved Government in 1969, British Policy Initiatives in Northern Ireland since 1969, the growing intra-unionist challenge to the devolved Unionist Government, the end of the Devolved Unionist government, UK Government Green Paper 1972, Sunningdale Agreement 1973, New Devolution Proposed via the UK Government’s 1973 White Paper that was later agreed at Sunningdale, December 1973, Unionist Mistrust of the SDLP and the Council of Ireland, Implementing Devolved Power Sharing: the Collapse of Support and the Collapse of Devolved Power Sharing, May 1974.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Responses to the Collapse of Devolved Power Sharing in 1974, British Government Policy after the Collapse of Devolution, Rolling Devolution 1982-86, The Climax of the Movement away from Devolved Power Sharing: the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985: Unionist Perspectives, Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985: non-Unionist Perspectives, the Climax of the Movement away from Devolved Power Sharing: the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985: Unionist Perspectives, Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985: non-Unionist Perspectives, Rolling Devolution 1982-86, the Road to the Good Friday Agreement and Devolution, the Good Friday Agreement 1998,The Referenda on the Good Friday Agreement May 1998, Voting by Religion in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement Referendum in Northern Ireland, Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, June 1998: Unionists, Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, June 1998: Nationalist and ‘Other’ Parties (all pro-Agreement), the Executive and Assembly Committees and Issues with the GFA.
Comprehensive array of Presentations that includes: Socialism, Liberalism, Conservatism. Postmodernism. Nations and Nationalism, The ‘State’, What is Power?, Civil Society and Democracy as well as Globalization and Development.
Comprehensive Presentations that Cover: Devolution, the House of Commons, House of Lords, the Civil Service, Monarchy and Judiciary, Regionalism and Local Government, Westminster Model, Pressure Groups, The UK Constitution, UK Voting Systems Anti-Politics and Accountability in the UK and the Core Executive.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Marxism: The Backstory, Marxist Assumptions and Propositions, Marx, Lenin, and Gramsci, Case Study and Criticisms of Marxism.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Defining Globalisation, Globalisation in History, Understanding Development, The Bretton Woods Institutions and Orthodox and Alternative Perspectives on Development.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Socialism Definitions, Socialism and Human Nature, Socialist Values, Social Class, Class Conflict, Socialism vs. Capitalism, Equality, Key Concepts of Socialism, Social Justice, Problems with Social Justice, Class Conflict, Collectivism, State Socialism, Why Utopia Failed, Social History (1640-1740), Social History (1740-1830), Charles and Robert, Karl Marx, Marxism, Marx’s Three Categories, Orthodox Marxism, Modern Marxism, Modern Marxism, Revisionism, Revolution Not Evolution, How Socialism Works, Types of Socialism, Revolutionary Socialism, Evolutionary Revolutionary Socialism, Fabians, Democratic Socialists as well as Capitalism and Socialism.
A Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: France’s Role in the Process of European Integration,
Positions of France’s Three Most Influential Political Parties on Europe, Franco-German Relations in Europe, France and the European Defence Community, France and the Common Agricultural Policy and France and the Treaty for a European Constitution.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Indicators of Religiosity in Northern Ireland, Religion and the Conflict in Northern Ireland and Anti-Catholicism.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Devolved Chaos 1999-2002, Unionist Division over the GFA, The Northern Ireland Assembly Elections November 2003, DUP-UUP Electoral Competition 1989-2010, Sinn Fein-SDLP Electoral Competition 1989-2007, St. Andrews Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly 2007, Voting System, the Executive, Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister, Continuing Issues in Northern Ireland: Parades, Representation, Polarisation, Victims, the Economy, and Flags, Devolution Progress 2007-15, Attitudes to Devolved Power Sharing 2015 and Satisfaction with Devolved Power Sharing, by Party Supported, 2011. The Presentation includes Polling Data, Electoral Results, and Graphs.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Democratic Deficit for Wales, ‘Labourland’ and 1979 referendum, ‘Quangoland’: The Thatcher Years, the Impact of Welsh Nationalism and the 1997 Election and Referendum Campaign.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Issues of Governance such as the Union, the Scottish Office, Accountability/Legitimacy and the decline of Conservative Unionism. It also covers the Rise of Nationalism, the Growth of the SNP and the Unionist Responses from the Conservative and Labour Parties, examines the bringing about of devolution such as the 1st Attempt in 1979 – the campaign and result, the ‘Thatcher Factor, the Constitutional Convention, 2nd Attempt in 1997– the campaign and result and the 2014 Independence Referendum.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Europeanisation and Integration, Party Politics, Left, Right, and Multiculturalism, Explaining Party Performance, Populism, Public Backlash or Political Opportunism? The Far Right - a Clear and Present Danger?
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Secret of Modern Britain is there is no Power Anywhere, Definitions: The State, Why is the State Important? Power and the State: Max Weber, Authority-Legitimate Power, the British State, the Triumph of Parliamentary over Royal Power, 18th Century, Urbanisation: 19th Century, Role of the State, Post WWII - State intervention, the British Political Tradition Greenleaf (1983), Westminster Model, Sovereignty, Core Executive, Executive – Legislature Relations, Electoral System, Party System, Judiciary, Territorial Politics, Model of Democracy? Challenges to the Westminster Model, New Labour Constitutional Reform, From Government to Governance and Models of Distribution of Power.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: What impression does this give of the Civil Service? The Classic Model of the Civil Service, the Lack of Change in the Civil Service 1850-1988, Main Changes to the Civil Service Over Recent Decades, Structural change followed the Ibbs Report of the late 1980s, Next Steps Agencies, Civil Service Controversies Since the 1980s, New Labour 1997-2010, Labour’s Plethora of new delivery vehicles, Reduced Civil Service, Politicisation? Why use special advisers? The controversies, Are special advisers neutral civil servants? What did the Conservatives promise? What did the Con-Lib Dem coalition do? the Civil Service under the Coalition Government and is the Civil Service fit for purpose?