Tavistock Times

The Tavistock Times is the newsletter for the UCL Department of Political Science.  The newsletter will be published three times during the academic year in the months of September, January and April.

Ideas for future articles should be sent to Helen Holt at h.holt@ucl.ac.uk.

Contributions from past students are especially welcome keeping the Department up to date on their progress since leaving UCL.

	April 2012 Growth and change have been the recurring themes of the Tavistock Times in recent years. Student numbers have grown from 30 students in 2001 to 380 in 2012 and full time faculty has grown from 3 to 24 in the same period. However, the school is not standing still and we have recently interviewed for six new appointments in International Relations, International Political Economy, Public Management, Political Economy, Comparative Politics and Political Theory. Download (917kb)
	January 2012 The new academic year started with the arrival of 380 masters students, 11 PhDs and as reported in the last newsletter 5 new lecturers and professors. Building on this success, in the coming year, we have plans to recruit an additional 5 new lecturers in a variety of fields of International Relations, Political Science, Public Policy, and Political Theory. This growth and new hires should allow us to offer students an ever more varied programme of courses and related events and make us even more competitive with our rival departments in the UK and abroad. Download (817kb)
	September 2011 As we come to the end of another academic year and approach the start of another, I am happy to report that the School of Public Policy continues to go from strength to strength. Approximately 400 master students across our eight programmes will graduate this year and over ten PhDs will have been defended. Download (852kb)
	April 2011 In the last two Tavistock Times I have talked about the phenomenal growth in teaching and learning provision, but the success of the School of Public Policy should not just be measured in terms of the numbers of students wanting to study at UCL. Rather SPP has also been trying to develop UCLs policy profile in government circles and impact the national and international political debates. Download (PDF/860kb)
	January 2011 As predicted in the last edition of the Tavistock Times the academic year started with a new intake of 400 masters students. This builds on the success of the last few years and makes the School of Public Policy one of the largest post graduate schools in political science and public policy in Europe. Download (PDF/889kb)
	September 2010 It is with great pleasure that I begin my term as Director of the School of Public Policy. SPP has gone through many changes in the nine years I have been at UCL and I have taken great pride in watching the School evolve from its humble beginnings into one of the UK’s leading departments of political science and the top graduate school of public policy in Europe. Download (PDF/860kb)
	April 2010 This is my last Director’s message for the Tavistock Times. The past five years have been exciting and exhausting, hugely fulfilling and occasionally horribly frustrating and nerve-wracking. However, there can be no doubting that we have achieved our objective of building a world class department over this period. Download (PDF/580kb)

Earlier editions of The Tavistock Times

• January 2010 (PDF/540kb)
  
• September 2009 (PDF/456kb)
• April 2009 (PDF/800kb)
• January 2009 (PDF/1.1Mb)
• August 2008 (PDF/700kb)