Matthew Goodwin

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25.08.10	Early online access to a new study of BNP voters in the 2009 European elections is available via the European Journal of Political Research.
08.08.10	The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain: Review, Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy
25.07.10	What next for the far right? Interview with Matthew Goodwin on the Westminster Hour
23.06.10	A short piece summarizing some of our research is published in the July (172) issue of Prospect Magazine
07.06.10	Our new study which is based on a randomised control trial to test the effects of environmental education in schools has been published in the journal Environmental Politics (vol.19, no.3). The aim of the study was to examine whether school-based interventions can help 'make' environmental citizens.
28.05.10	A documentary on the English Defence League by The Guardian.
28.05.10	A piece in The Guardian on the English Defence League.
15.05.10	A post-election blog on the BNP performance.
14.05.10	An article in The Guardian on the far right in the general election
20.04.10	Some thoughts on the new report on BNP support from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
16.04.10	The far right and Islam - a contribution to the University of Nottingham 2010 general election blog.
12.04.10	Today we are holding the second seminar in our ESRC Seminar Series on The Social and Economic Foundations of Ethnic Minority Political Representation at the University of Oxford.
19.03.10	Details of new titles in the Routledge Book Series in Extremism and Democracy are available here
18.03.10	The Democracy, Citizens and Elections Research Network (DCERN) at the University of Manchester is holding an international symposium on 'Methods and Models for Election Forecasting'.
10.03.10	Matthew is contributing to the Seminar 'Migration and the Rise of Nationalist Right-Wing Parties' at the University of Copenhagen. The seminar is hosted by the Policy Network in partnership with The Migration Initiative. Further details here.
22.02.10	Our new book - The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain is published today. Further information here
22.02.10	Our new study that examines the effects of a school-based environmental education program will appear in a special issue of the journal Environmental Politics 'Symposium on Environmental Citizenship, Activism and Participation'.
19.02.10	Research discussed at a 'Cohesion and Political Extremism' workshop, hosted by Camden London Borough Council and organized by the Institute of Community Cohesion.
19.02.10	Details of the ESRC Seminar Series 'Community Cohesion: Retrospective and Prospective' are available here. The Manchester seminar is organized by Matthew in co-operation with the Institute for Community Cohesion (iCoCo).
17.02.10	A new blog on the forthcoming general election is available on the Nottingham Election 2010 site.
12.02.10	Our new working paper on BNP voters in the 2009 European Elections - based on the first ever dataset to examine the attitudes of extreme right voters in Britain - is available here.
05.02.10	Matthew Goodwin has been appointed co-editor of the Routledge Book Series on Extremism and Democracy. The series encompasses academic studies within the broad fields of 'extremism' and 'democracy'. The series is aligned with the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy.
01.02.10	Four observations about the new extremism in modern Britain.
29.01.10	Today we held the first seminar in our ESRC Seminar Series on Minority Group Representation. The next seminar will be held at the University of Oxford in April. Click here for further details.
28.01.10	A new paper on party activism in extreme right parties, published by the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (JEPOP) is here.
27.01.10	Our research on BNP voting was discussed on the Radio 4 programme 'Thinking Allowed'. You can listen here.
16.01.10	Challenging extremism: What's fuelling the far right? Summary of the discussion at Fabian Society Conference is here.
11.01.10	A new paper on BNP voters by Goodwin and Ford has been published in the current issue of Political Studies and can be found here.
02.01.10	Details of our panel at the upcoming 60th Political Studies Annual Conference in Edinburgh - 'Voting on the Margins: Support for the British National Party and the UK Independence Party' - are available here.
28.12.09	New piece on the English Defence League (EDL) originally featured in the Daily Mail.
20.12.09	Could the UK have a Barack Obama? I have organized the first seminar in our ESRC Social Research Seminar Series at Manchester. The seminar examines the social and economic foundations of ethnic minority political representation. Speakers include John Solomos, Irene Bloemraad and Anthony Heath.
15.12.09	The politics of the forthcoming general election and the prospects of a Labour victory. I have been invited to speak at the Fabian New Year Conference – Causes to Fight For – on Saturday 16th January at Imperial College London.
07.12.09	Our research team at Manchester have been awarded an ESRC Seminar Series, which will examine the political representation of ethnic minorities in the UK in comparative perspective. The election of Barack Obama marked a landmark in the history of racial politics in the United States. Could someone from an ethnic minority achieve similar success in British politics?
05.12.09	Who votes BNP and why? A paper by myself and Robert Ford (University of Manchester), which examines the individual and contextual predictors of BNP voting, will appear in the New Year in volume 58, number 1 of the journal Political Studies. An earlier version of our paper can be found here.
04.12.09	I am giving a paper on December 9th 2009 at the Migration Research Seminar at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. See the programme of research seminars.
01.12.09	Who joins and becomes actively involved in right-wing extremism? This question guided my doctoral research, and one of my papers on this topic is coming out next year in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
27.11.09	Sponsored by the Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence (JMCE), a one-day workshop on Religion and Right-Wing Extremism was held at the University of Manchester with speakers from the University of Mainz, Keele University, Exeter University and the Institute for Social Change (ISC) at the University of Manchester. Great event, and thanks to all who took time out to come along.
25.11.09	Some of our new research on voting behaviour in the European elections 2009 was presented at the research workshop: ‘Using political science to inform contemporary political debate’, held by the Democracy, Citizens and Elections Research Network (DCERN).
27.10.09	What are the causes and consequences of support for different forms of extremism? In its various forms organized extremism is one of the major policy challenges facing national government and local authorities. Our new book, The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain, brings together leading experts to examine what causes support for extremism and explore how policy-makers can respond to this challenge. Pre-orders and reviews can be found here.
25.10.09	Our new website for the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, which was founded a decade ago, has now gone live.
20.10.09	A new book to which I have contributed, Changing Local Governance, Changing Citizens (Policy Press) is now available.
13.10.09	In partnership with the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) we are holding a one-day seminar on the ‘Far Right and Social Cohesion’. The seminar is invite-only and will be held in March 2009.
12.10.09	I have contributed to a Newsnight piece on the English Defence League (EDL). This brief documentary is now available on YouTube.
01.10.09	The 2nd Annual Challenges to Cohesion Conference will be held in Hulme Hall at the University of Manchester on Friday 26 March 2010. We’re bringing together some great pieces of research and speakers. If you would like to register please keep your eye on the IPEG website.
09.09.09	I have just returned from the European Consortium of Political Research Conference in Potsdam Germany where we presented new research on BNP voting in local elections. The full academic programme is available.
06.09.09	I’m presenting research at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Toronto....
01.08.09	Attending the 42nd Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, great courses and people.
01.06.09	Research by Goodwin and Ford featured in the Financial Times.
19.05.09	A University of Manchester press release focused on one of the chapters in our forthcoming book which examines potential support for the far right in modern Britain.
16.04.09	Some of the research presented in our forthcoming book The New Extremism (see above) is discussed in New Statesman magazine.
10.04.09	I’ve presented research on extreme right party voting at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.
01.04.09	In April 2009 we hosted a series of expert seminars in association with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which examined key housing issues from an equalities and human rights perspective.
15.02.09	Presenting research at the 13th Annual Karlsruhe Dialogues in Germany, a great event held by the Centre for Cultural and General Studies (ZAK) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
13.02.09	What is the prospect of a BNP MEP in June? Our piece on the Guardian website- ‘Yes, the BNP could win in Europe’ – sets out our thoughts.
21.11.2008	The 1st Annual Challenges to Cohesion Conference held at Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester. Over 100 delegates from across the country came to discuss some of the latest research and implications for public policy, see our conference flyer.
01.10.2008	We presented findings from one of our randomized control trials at the Third Annual Conference in Randomized Control Trials in the Social Sciences at the University of York. You can read our paper by clicking here!
10.02.2008	Some thoughts on the extreme right in Britain featured on The Westminster Hour.