'The Scottish Question': implications for the rest of UK and Scottish local governance

该项目包括(i)审查申请人职业生涯中收集的现有信息和数据，（ii）进行进一步的初步研究（收集新材料，进行精英访谈和地方治理的比较研究），（iii）参与一系列新颖的知识交流活动，以及（iv）撰写学术文章。中心目标是探讨苏格兰问题对英国和苏格兰地方治理的影响。申请人将与英国和苏格兰地方层面的政策制定者就这些问题进行接触，并与英国广播公司（BBC）发展与新一批选民的接触。苏格兰16/17岁的孩子。申请人在过去三十年中收集了大量关于SQ的信息。这将有助于在英国不同地区的公众和决策者之间就当前公投对英国的影响进行辩论。然而，申请人已经确定了这个研究机构揭示的关键差距。该奖学金将允许申请人在邱园国家档案馆和爱丁堡苏格兰国家档案馆进行一段时间的研究。申请人还将与伦敦、英格兰东北部、威尔士和北爱尔兰的精英就苏格兰问题的影响进行面试。该奖学金还将允许申请人发展他在苏格兰地方治理方面的工作。目前的研究包括就公投后的地方治理采访关键的地方官员和政治家。该奖学金将使这一研究得以发展，包括对其他州的地方主义和地方治理的比较研究。考虑到设得兰群岛在SQ辩论中的地位，这将使他能够在设得兰群岛进行研究。该奖学金将允许申请人允许申请人与整个苏格兰的政策制定团体就这些问题进行接触。在奖学金期的前半段，将更加强调完成奖学金期的研究内容，然后在后半段更加强调知识交流。然而，每项活动（研究和知识交流）将贯穿整个奖学金。知识交流活动将采取多种形式，选择适合目标受众。这将包括：在英国不同地方和苏格兰不同地区制作和发表公共文件；与英国广播公司合作，与16/17岁的新选民进行接触；撰写报纸文章和博客使用网络和twitter和网络传播；尽一切努力出席适当的公共和政策活动和会议并在这些活动和会议上发言，并利用有关机会传播调查结果；制作一系列通俗易懂的关于“苏格兰问题和……”写学术论文。

This project involves undertaking a (i) review of existing information and data gathered over the applicant's career, (ii) conducting further primary research (gathering new material, conducting elite interviews and comparative research on local governance), (iii) engaging in a range of novel knowledge exchange activities and (iv) the production of academic articles. The central aim is to explore the implications of the Scottish Question for rUK and for local governance in Scotland. The applicant will engage with policy-makers in rUK and at local level in Scotland on these matters and also with the BBC to develop engagement with a new cohort of voters, ie. 16/17 year olds in Scotland. The applicant has gathered a considerable body of information on the SQ over three decades. This will contribute to informing debates amongst the public and policy-makers in different parts of the UK about the implications of the current referendum for rUK. However, the applicant has identified key gaps revealed by this body of research. This fellowship would allow the applicant to spend some time researching in both the National Archives at Kew and the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh. The applicant will also conduct interviews with elites in the London, North East of England, Wales and Northern Ireland on implications of the Scottish Question.The fellowship will also allow the applicant to develop his work on local governance in Scotland. This current research involves interviewing key local officials and politicians on post-referendum local governance. The fellowship will allow this to be developed to include comparative research on localism and local governance in other states. It will allow him to carry out research in Shetland considering the place of Shetland in debates on the SQ. The fellowship will allow the applicant allow the applicant to engage with the policy-making community throughout Scotland on these issues.There will be a heavier emphasis on completing the research element of the fellowship period in the first half of the period, followed by greater emphasis on knowledge exchange in the second. However, each activity (research and knowledge exchange) will run throughout the fellowship.The knowledge exchange activities will take a number of forms, chosen to suit to the target audience. This will include:producing and presenting public papers in different places in rUK and different localities in Scotland;collaborating with the BBC to engage with the new electoral cohort of 16/17 year olds;writing newspaper articles and blogs using web and twitter and web dissemination;making every effort to attend and speak at appropriate public and policy events and conferences and relevant opportunities to disseminate findings;production of series of accessible papers on 'The Scottish Question and...'writing academic papers.