Christopher Byrne

Contact

• workRoom C106a Law & Social Sciences
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Christopher.Byrne@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Christopher Byrne is Assistant Professor in British Politics and Deputy Director of Education and Student Experience in the School of Politics and International Relations, having joined the department in 2023. His primary areas of expertise are British politics, the UK parliament, political leadership and higher education pedagogy.

He is editor of the journal British Politics and an active member of the Political Studies Association. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Teaching Summary

British Party Politics

The British Constitution in Crisis

Parliamentary Studies

Selected Publications

• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER, 2022. What determines perceived graduate employability? Exploring the effects of personal characteristics, academic achievements and graduate skills in a survey experiment Studies in Higher Education. 47(1), 159-176
• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER, RANDALL, NICK and THEAKSTON, KEVIN, 2020. Disjunctive Prime Ministerial Leadership in British Politics: From Baldwin to Brexit
• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER and THEAKSTON, KEVIN, 2019. Understanding the power of the prime minister: Structure and agency in models of prime ministerial power British Politics. 14, 329-346
• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER and THEAKSTON, KEVIN, 2016. Leaving the house: The experience of former members of parliament who left the house of commons in 2010 Parliamentary Affairs. 69(3), 686-707

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I am interested in supervising research students interested in the following areas:

• British party politics
• Political leadership
• UK Parliament

• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER, 2022. What determines perceived graduate employability? Exploring the effects of personal characteristics, academic achievements and graduate skills in a survey experiment Studies in Higher Education. 47(1), 159-176
• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER, RANDALL, NICK and THEAKSTON, KEVIN, 2021. Edward Heath: Leadership Competence and Capability Policies and Politics Under Prime Minister Edward Heath. 317-354
• BYRNE, CHRIS, RANDALL, NICK and THEAKSTON, KEVIN, 2021. Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership: Choice and constraint in political time The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 23(4), 699-716
• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER, RANDALL, NICK and THEAKSTON, KEVIN, 2020. Disjunctive Prime Ministerial Leadership in British Politics: From Baldwin to Brexit
• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER and THEAKSTON, KEVIN, 2019. Understanding the power of the prime minister: Structure and agency in models of prime ministerial power British Politics. 14, 329-346
• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER, 2018. Neoliberalisms in British Politics
• BYRNE, CHRIS, RANDALL, NICK and THEAKSTON, KEVIN, 2017. Evaluating British prime ministerial performance: David Cameron’s premiership in political time The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 19(1), 202-220
• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER and THEAKSTON, KEVIN, 2016. Leaving the house: The experience of former members of parliament who left the house of commons in 2010 Parliamentary Affairs. 69(3), 686-707
• BATES, STEPHEN R, KERR, PETER, BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER and STANLEY, LIAM, 2014. Questions to the Prime Minister: A comparative study of PMQs from Thatcher to Cameron Parliamentary Affairs. 67(2), 253-280
• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER, KERR, PETER and FOSTER, EMMA, 2014. What kind of ‘Big Government’is the big society? A reply to Bulley and Sokhi-Bulley The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 16(3), 471-478
• FOSTER, EMMA ANN, KERR, PETER and BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER, 2014. Rolling back to roll forward: Depoliticisation and the extension of government Policy & Politics. 42(2), 225-241
• FOSTER, EMMA, KERR, PETER, HOPKINS, ANTHONY, BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER and AHALL, LINDA, 2013. The personal is not political: At least in the UK's top politics and IR departments The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 15(4), 566-585
• BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER, FOSTER, EMMA and KERR, PETER, 2012. Understanding conservative modernisation. In: Cameron and the Conservatives: The transition to coalition government Palgrave Macmillan UK London. 16-31
• KERR, PETER, BYRNE, CHRISTOPHER and FOSTER, EMMA, 2011. Theorising Cameronism Political Studies Review. 9(2), 193-207