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Professor Nicola McEwen unpacks the complexities of Scottish devolution, exploring its historical context, the evolution of powers within the Scottish Parliament, and the intricate and evolving intergovernmental relations between the Scottish Government in Holyrood and the UK Government in Westminster.

In this conversation with Sepi Golzari-Munro, they discuss the significance of the Scottish Parliament's establishment in 1999, the evolution of the Parliament’s powers, the transformational impact of Brexit on the relationship between the Scottish and UK Parliaments, the need for more transparency in the way the Scottish and UK Government’s interact and make decisions and what the future of this relationship may hold.

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00:00 Intro

02:13 Historical Forces - Establishing Scottish Parliament

05:15 Home Rule Movement & Political Dynamics

10:42 Evolution of Devolution - How Scotland's Powers Have Changed

15:31 New Powers: Political Fudge or Necessarily Complex?

18:49 No Complexity, No Devolution

22:20 MORE Politicians?!

25:27 Weakest Link - Government Relations

28:52 With & Without EU - Brexit Impact on UK Home Affairs

31:02 A Necessary Evil? Scottish Powers Curtailed

38:43 Commitment to Devolution Questioned

41:52 Fixing Future Holyrood-Westminster Relationship

44:57 What Should be Public Knowledge?

46:06 Conclusion

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Professor Nicola McEwen is a Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the College of Social Sciences and Director of the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Glasgow. She was previously at Edinburgh University from 2001, first as Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in 2006, and as Professor of Territorial Politics from 2014. She was founding Co-Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change, where she remains a Research Fellow. 

Nicola completed a Senior Research Fellowship with the ESRC UK in a Changing Europe, having previously been Principal Investigator of one of its prestigious Brexit Priority Grants. Her project, entitled A Family of Nations? Brexit, Devolution and the Union, explored intergovernmental relations in UK-EU negotiations, and the implications of Brexit for devolution and the future of the Union. 

From 2019-2022, Nicola was Research Fellow in a major ESRC-funded project, Between Two Unions: The Constitutional Future of the Islands after Brexit, where she led the research strand charting the evolution of intergovernmental relations. 

She has published widely in the field of territorial politics, nationalism, multi-level government and policy-making, and multi-level parties and elections. She is actively involved in informing debate within the wider policy and political community, through with extensive experience in providing analysis in broadcast, print and social media, public engagement, advice to governments and parliamentary committees, and consultancy.

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