Dr Rosanne Palmer - BA (Hons) (Loughborough), MA (Leicester), PhD (Birmingham)
Overview
Position:
Lecturer
Email:
PalmerR@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 2087 4564
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
Extension: 74564
Location: Room 1.25, 65-68 Park Place
In October 2008, I began a two-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship researching the role of sub-state legislatures in EU governance. This project will draw upon case studies from Germany, Spain and the UK. In addition to the Fellowship, I continue working with the University’s Wales Governance Centre and am currently teaching modules on the European Union and devolution and comparative territorial politics.
My research interests include:
- multi-level governance in the EU
- German politics, in particular the federal system and the current process of federal reform
- Pro-active engagement of sub-state authorities in domestic European policy formulation in comparative context
- devolution in the United Kingdom, particularly in Scotland and Wales
- the role of sub-state legislatures in this European policy formulation process and the constraints upon their participation.
Selected Publications
Devolution, Asymmetry and Europe: Multi-Level Governance in the United Kingdom (Peter Lang/PIE, Brussels, 2008)
(with Alistair Cole): “Comparer les Régions en Europe de l’Ouest”, Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, Vol 39 (3)(2008)
Chapter (with Stephen Thornton and Mark Crowley): “Government formation in the National Assembly for Wales” in Brazier, A & Kalitowski, S (Eds): No overall control: The impact of a ‘hung parliament’ (Hansard Society, 2008)
“European integration and domestic decentralisation: Intra-state dynamics in the United Kingdom and Germany”, special issue, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol 4 (3), December 2003, pp363-390
Chapter (with Professor Charlie Jeffery) “Stepping (softly) onto the International Stage: The external relations of Scotland and Wales” in Rudolf Hrbek (Hrsg): Außenbeziehungen von Regionen in Europa und der Welt, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003
Chapter (with Professor Charlie Jeffery): "Devolution and European policy-making" in Alan Trench (ed): Devolution and Power in the United Kingdom (MUP, Mancheter, 2007)
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Publications
Asymmetry, Devolution and Europe: Multi-Level Governance in the UK (Peter Lang/PIE, Brussels, 2008)
(with Alistair Cole): “Comparer les Régions en Europe de l’Ouest”, Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, Vol 38 (3)(2008)
Chapter (with Stephen Thornton and Mark Crowley): “Government formation in the National Assembly for Wales” in Brazier, A & Kalitowski, S (Eds): No overall control: The impact of a ‘hung parliament’ (Hansard Society, 2008)
Chapter (with Professor Charlie Jeffery): “Devolution and European Policy-Making” in Alan Trench (Ed): Devolution and Power in the United Kingdom (2007)
Chapter (with Professor Charlie Jeffery): “Devolution, öffentliche Meinung und nationale Identität im Vereinigten Königreich” in Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2006 (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 2006)
Chapter (with Professor Charlie Jeffery): “Devolution im Vereinigten Königreich: der rätselhafte Fall des fehlenden Zentrums” in Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2005 (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 2005)
“European integration and domestic decentralisation: Intra-state dynamics in the United Kingdom and Germany”, special issue, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol 4 (3), December 2003, pp363-390.
Chapter (with Professor Charlie Jeffery): “Die britische Devolution und die Wählerschaft: Die Wahlen 2003 in Schottland, Wales und Nordirland” in Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2004, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 2004, pp276-289.
Chapter (with Professor Charlie Jeffery) “Stepping (softly) onto the International Stage: The external relations of Scotland and Wales” in Rudolf Hrbek (Hrsg): Außenbeziehungen von Regionen in Europa und der Welt, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003.
Chapter (with Professor Charlie Jeffery) “Devolution im Vereinigten Königreich: Erste Antworten auf die ‘englische Frage’?” in Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2003, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003
Chapter (with Professor Charlie Jeffery) “Das Vereinigte Königreich: Die ‘Devolution-Revolution’ setzt sich fort“ in Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2002, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 2002.
Research
After completing my PhD, I worked for two years as a research fellow on a project “Multi-level Governance in the EU”, part of the Leverhulme Trust funded programme “Dynamics of Devolution”, headed by the Constitution Unit at University College London. After the conclusion of that project, I took up an appointment as an ESRC postdoctoral fellow, consolidating the work carried out during the course of my PhD and developing a new research interest on the place of sub-state legislatures in European policy-making.
Based upon this work, I am currently involved in developing a research agenda for examining the role of sub-state legislatures in EU policy-making with colleagues from the University of Manchester and the European Parliament. I am also researching coalition formation in the National Assembly for Wales following the May 2007 election.
Biography
Career Profile
I joined the School of European Studies at Cardiff University from the Institute of German Studies, part of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham. Having completed my PhD “Devolution and European policy-making in the United Kingdom: a comparative perspective” at Birmingham in 2002, I was appointed as a Research Fellow on a Leverhulme Trust funded project on “Multi-level governance in the EU”. After that project was completed, I held an ESRC post-doctoral fellowship for 12 months, furthering my research into the issue of the role of sub-state parliaments and assemblies in EU governance. Since joining Cardiff, I have been involved in developing a new research agenda for examining the place of parliaments in EU policy-making and have recently been awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to continue this research.
Awards and Prizes
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, 2008-10, Cardiff University
ESRC Post-doctoral fellow, 2003-2004, University of Birmingham
Memberships / External Activities
Ordinary member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of German Politics (April 2006 –December 2008)
Member of the Steering Committee of the Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University
Member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) (2002 - )
Presentations
Celebrating Independents’ Day? Assessing the significance of the May 2008 election results in Wales”, with Dr Stephen Thornton, South East Wales Politics and Modern History Research Day, 27 June 2008, National Assembly for Wales
“Governmental incongruence and intergovernmental relations in the post-devolution UK”, The State of the Kingdoms, 2 May 2008, Cardiff
“A role for sub-state parliaments in EU policy-making? A comparative perspective”, UACES Annual Research Conference, University of Limerick, 31 August – 2 September 2006
‘Let us in or leave us alone: regional autonomy and influence in domestic European policy formulation’, PSA Working Group on Territorial Politics and Devolution, University of Strathclyde, 7-9 January 2004
“Making a difference? The role of resources in determining the impact of regions in European policy formulation” presented at ‘The European Union: The first ten years, the next ten years’, UACES Annual Research Conference, University of Newcastle, 2-4 September 2003.
“The role of regional parliaments in EU decision-making: A comparative perspective”, Institute for German Studies Conference: ‘Regions and the EU: Do they make a difference?’, West Midlands in Europe Office, Brussels, 10-11 June 2003.
“The German Länder, the EU and the Convention on the Future of Europe”, ASGP Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, 24-25 April 2003 (by invitation).
“European integration and domestic decentralisation: Intra-state dynamics in the United Kingdom and Germany” presented at ‘Future of Europe' UACES Annual Research Conference, Queens University Belfast, 2-4 September 2002.
"Die Beteiligung von Schottland und Wales am europapolitischen Entscheidungsprozeß der britischen Regierung", presented at the Tagung "Föderalismus - Reformdiskussion und internationaler Vergleich" at the Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, 12-13 December 2000.
"The European Dimension of the UK's Devolution Process: Learning from "Best Practice" elsewhere?", presented at the conference on "Territory, Identity and Politics: Territorial Politics in the New European Order" in Obernai, France, 5-8 September 1999.
Teaching Profile
EU 4602 – Politics and Policies of the European Union
EU 4410 – Wales, Devolution and Multi-Level Governance in the European Union
EU4341/4344 – Final year dissertation supervisor
EUT 121 – EU Public Policy (MSc in European Governance and Public Policy)
I also supervise research students working in the field of comparative territorial politics.