Michael Kenny

Michael is the director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. He is also a co-director of the British Academy’s Governing England programme, a visiting fellow at UCL’s Constitution Unit, and sits on the Leverhulme Trust’s advisory committee.

He was previously professor of politics in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London, and the inaugural director of the Mile End Institute. He has held posts at Queen’s University, Belfast, the College of William and Mary in the US, and Sheffield University (where he was appointed head of department). He has been awarded visiting fellowships at Wolfson College, Oxford, and the Centre for Research into the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge. In 2008, he was appointed senior visiting research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, and is currently an Associate Fellow at the IPPR.

Michael's latest book is Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK (published by Hurst in January 2024).

His media work involves writing for a wide range of newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Prospect and Total Politics, and appearing as a commentator on a variety of radio and television programmes.