Peter Kerr

Peter Kerr is a Senior Lecturer in Politics. He specialises and teaches in the area of British politics, with a particular focus on governmental strategies, UK political parties, political leadership and ideology in the UK and, changes and continuities in British political institutions and public policy since 1945.

His broad research interests lie in applying theories of social and political change to explain trends in British politics. His current work focusses on examining, both theoretically and empirically, the relationship between processes of politicisation and de-politicisation within the broader context of neo-liberal governmentality in the UK. Relatedly, his work also focusses on party modernisation, with a particular focus on Conservative Party modernisation, as well as changing patterns of democracy, citizenship and political participation in the UK.