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: How has it arisen and what is it? the McKay Commission, English Devolution Options, the Northern Powerhouse, 2017 Elected Mayors and Other Issues: Cornwall and Yorkshire.
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 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 Presentation that Covers: What is Europe? European Political Traditions, Assessing the State of Democracy in Europe Today, Globalization and the Crisis of the Nation State in Europe, the Decline of Political Parties, Power and the Contemporary European State, Democracy and the EU, Regionalism and European integration, Immigration, Europe and the Rise of the Far Right and Europe and the World.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Tracing Europe’s Left and Right, A revolutionary history, Ideologies: The rise of the‘isms’, Nationalism in European politics and Political systems: A Europe of many types? - From liberal democracies to ‘people’s democracies’ and Legacies.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Westphalia to the ‘Third Wave’, Sovereignty: What is it? Anachronistic? Pressure from Above and Below: the Globalisation Thesis, Pressure from within: Public Trust, Political Parties, Electoral Systems and Power, Performance and Legitimacy: Collapse or Change?
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: The Nature of the Sub-National State, the Changing Structure, Functions and Status of Local Government and English Regionalism: the Dog that Didn’t Bark?
A Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Views on the Scottish Parliament, Views of the Scottish Parliament and Devolution, the Scotland Act 1998, Division of Responsibilities (Schedule 5 of Scotland Act 1998), West Lothian Problem’ Not Addressed, the Scottish Parliament, First Minister, and Executive, First Ministers, Principles Upon which the Scottish Parliament was Supposed to be Based, Implementation of Principles, The Critique of the Application of the Democratic Parliamentary Principles, Electing the Scottish Parliament: the Additional Member System, Disadvantages of the Additional Member System, The current Scottish Parliament 2011, Election Results and Proportionality, Legislation Passed by the Scottish Parliament, Problems Post-Devolution, Revenue & Tax-Raising Power, Scottish Economic Power, Calman Commission 2009, ‘Serving Scotland Better’, the Smith Commission 2014 and Devo-Max Scottish Parliament?
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Myth, Identity and the EU, Analysing Regionalism, Early European Integration, ECSC-EC, First Enlargements, Empire by Invitation?, Stagnation to Dynamism (and back), Single European Act, German Reunification and Eastern Enlargement, EU as International Actor and Soft/Hard Power.
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: the Westminster Model in Context, Westminster Model Under Challenge? and Theories of the State as well as their Application to UK Political Institutions.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: the Idea of a ‘Nation', What Form does a Nation Take? Johann Gottfried Herder, Modernisation Strategy, Self-Affirmation, Nations as Political Communities, Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson, Nationalism and Threats to the Nation-State.
Comprehensive Presentation that includes: What Do We Mean By Democracy in Europe?- Definitions, Types, Models, Problems – what problems? Democratic Europe Today – a mixed picture, Generic Measures of Democracy, Freedom House; the Democracy Barometer, Establishing criteria - What Do We Want to Measure? and Analysing European Political Systems.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Defining the EU’s Democratic Deficit, The EU Institutions, Arguments for and Against the Existence of a Democratic Deficit and Moves to make the EU more Democratic.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Does the EU Have a Foreign Policy, and How Effective is it? How does the EU Deal with its Neighbours? What Sort of Identity Does the EU Have on the World Stage? and Is the EU in Crisis, Where is It Heading?
Comprehensive Presentation that includes: What is a Political Party? Cleavages and the ‘Golden Age’, Political Science and Political Parties and Prognosis: terminal decline? - Measuring the End of the Party and Weighing up the Arguments.
Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: Civil Society in Political Theory, Towards a Definition of Civil Society, Three Circles Approach, Democracy, Defining Democracy, Forms of Democracy, Democracy and Civil Society, Social Capital as well as Civil Society and Contemporary British Politics.
Comprehensive Presentation that includes: Power and Legitimacy in European Politics, Forms of Government, Parliamentary or Presidential?, Identifying Characteristics, Advantages and Disadvantages, Prime Ministers and their Cabinets as well as Parliaments.