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We run events where panels discuss our policies, papers and speak to individuals about their experiences in politics.
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Past events
This event will look at the future of devolution in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Cornwall and at the devolution deals across England.
At this event we looked at the issues with the UK prison system and how we can learn from Norwegian prisons. The panel includes former Prisons Minister Sir David Hanson, Chris Daw KC and Lauren Davison.
This event looked at how businesses and all levels of government can support rewilding. The panel included: Zack Polanski AM a Green Party London Assembly Member, Dr Simon Biltcliffe who is the Founder & CEO of Webmart, a certified B Corporation and the Co-Leader of the Yorkshire Party, Steve Micklewright who is the Convenor of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance and CEO Trees for Life and the host was Will Barber – Taylor.
At this event we discussed nuclear power, whether it has a role in fighting climate change and how we should treat the energy source in the future.
Centre Aberystwyth and the Aberystwyth International Politics Society hosted an event with Suzy Davies. It included questions about Suzy and her time in politics from Jasneet Samrai. After this Suzy answered questions from students and guests.
The UK has multiple property taxes including stamp duty, council tax and business rates. We look what should happen to this system and whether it needs to be simplified. It included Peter Fox MS who is the Senedd Shadow Minister for Finance, Tom Spencer of London New Liberals, Shreya Nanda of the IPPR, Andrew Dixon the founder of Fairer Share and from Centre Torrin Wilkins and Jasneet Samrai.
This event focused on how we improve mental health support and our new paper on the issue. It also included a question and answer session mainly focusing on how we ensure social media companies do their part to protect the mental health of people using their sites. The panel included Centre supporter and former MP for Eastbourne Stephen Lloyd, Pushkin Defyer the Head of Membership Development for Centre, Yzzy Teucher Vice President of Centre Aberystwyth.
This event will look at the future of devolution in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Cornwall and at the devolution deals across England.
At this event we looked at the issues with the UK prison system and how we can learn from Norwegian prisons. The panel includes former Prisons Minister Sir David Hanson, Chris Daw KC and Lauren Davison.
This event looked at how businesses and all levels of government can support rewilding. The panel included: Zack Polanski AM a Green Party London Assembly Member, Dr Simon Biltcliffe who is the Founder & CEO of Webmart, a certified B Corporation and the Co-Leader of the Yorkshire Party, Steve Micklewright who is the Convenor of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance and CEO Trees for Life and the host was Will Barber – Taylor.
At this event we discussed nuclear power, whether it has a role in fighting climate change and how we should treat the energy source in the future.
Centre Aberystwyth and the Aberystwyth International Politics Society hosted an event with Suzy Davies. It included questions about Suzy and her time in politics from Jasneet Samrai. After this Suzy answered questions from students and guests.
The UK has multiple property taxes including stamp duty, council tax and business rates. We look what should happen to this system and whether it needs to be simplified. It included Peter Fox MS who is the Senedd Shadow Minister for Finance, Tom Spencer of London New Liberals, Shreya Nanda of the IPPR, Andrew Dixon the founder of Fairer Share and from Centre Torrin Wilkins and Jasneet Samrai.
This event focused on how we improve mental health support and our new paper on the issue. It also included a question and answer session mainly focusing on how we ensure social media companies do their part to protect the mental health of people using their sites. The panel included Centre supporter and former MP for Eastbourne Stephen Lloyd, Pushkin Defyer the Head of Membership Development for Centre, Yzzy Teucher Vice President of Centre Aberystwyth.
Previous panellists
Adrian Ramsay
Adrian is the co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and Parliamentary candidate for North Suffolk.
Bill Esterson
Bill is the Labour MP and Shadow Minister for Business and Industry.
Suzy Davies
Former Member of the Senedd
Suzy was the South Wales West Conservative member of the Senedd between 2011 until 2021. She also held Shadow Ministerial positions including Education, Social Services and Tourism, Culture and the Welsh Language. Alongside this Suzy was the first woman to run to be Welsh Conservative leader in 2018 and sat on multiple Senedd committees.
Zack Polanski
Zack Polanski is a Green Party London Assembly Member.
Penelope Hope
Centre Business Network Chair
Penelope is the Co-Founder of Rebel Energy UK and was Utilities Businesswoman of the Year in 2021. She is also a Supervisory Board Member at Carlson Investments SE and was previously an Equity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs.
Peter Fox MS OBE
Member of the Senedd
Peter is the Shadow Minister for Finance in the Welsh Parliament (Senedd) and the Conservative Member for Monmouth.
Dr Simon Biltcliffe DBA
Simon is the Founder & CEO of Webmart, a certified B Corporation and the Co-Leader of the Yorkshire Party.
Chris Daw KC
Chris was the co-presenter of the BBC One series “Crime - Are we Tough Enough?” and is author of the book “Justice on Trial".
Lord Neil Kinnock
Former Labour Leader
Neil was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992. He was also the Vice-President of the European Commission between 1999 and 2004 and a member of Parliament between 1970 and 1995. Since 2005 he has been a Member of the House of Lords.
Sir David Hanson
Former Minister and former Member of Parliament
Sir David Hanson was MP for Delyn from 1992-2019. During his time in parliament David held a number of positions including as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tony Blair, Minister of State for Justice from 2007-2009, Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office from 2005-2007 and Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing in the Home Office from 2009-2010.
Steve Micklewright
Steve is the Convenor of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance and CEO Trees for Life.
Andrew Dixon
Aberystwyth University Patron
Andrew is the founder of ARC InterCapital and previously worked at Goldman Sachs. Since then he has created campaigns including Fairer Share and the Woodhaven trust.
William Kedjanyi
William is a political analyst and sports previewer for Star Sports Bet.
Ashley Routh
Health spokesperson
Ash is our Health spokesperson. She is an active member of the Green Party where she is the Co-Chair of the LGBTIQA Greens, was the Green candidate for the 2022 Wakefield by-election and was a councillor.
Lauren Davison
Justice Spokesperson
Lauren is the co-Policy Officer for Open labour, the Secretary of the Young Fabians Criminal Justice Network and has a Masters in Criminology.
Tom Spencer
Tom is the Chief Organiser at London New Liberals.
Pushkin Defyer
Alumni Network Chair
Pushkin was previously on the executive of the Young Liberals and is now a member of the Labour Party. He has worked with candidates from multiple parties during election campaigns, mainly supporting them with his knowledge of digital campaigning.
Stephen Lloyd
Former Member of Parliament
Stephen was the MP for Eastbourne from 2010 to 2015 and 2017 to 2019. His front bench roles included Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Northern Ireland, the DWP and in the coalition government, as PPS to the Environment Secretary.
Jasneet Samrai
Deputy Director (internal)
Jasneet coordinates our team and helps to set the policy direction for Centre. They work at Breast Cancer Now, previously worked at Oxfam and has also been a campaign organiser helping to elect 3 MEP’s. Jasneet is also Head of Safeguarding and Pastoral Care.
Danny Simm
Former council candidate
Danny was the Liberal Democrat council candidate in Abram Ward, Wigan, and also serves on the North West executive of the Liberal Democrats.
Shreya Nanda
Shreya is the chief economist at the Social Market Foundation Think Tank and previously worked at the Institute for Public Policy Research.