Join us online or in person for the 2022 Bingham Lecture:
‘Parliament under strain: culture, norms and rule-breaking in the House of Commons since 2009’

In her lecture, Emma Crewe will reflect on the erosion of standards in parliament and examine the role played by culture in ethical decline or revival. She will ask if the rhythms of parliamentary work are too frenetic to allow for the kind of reflection and debate needed to improve moral understanding and integrity and examine how we can hold politicians to account without making their position impossible.

This discussion will be moderated by Dr Nicholas Dickinson, Balliol Bingham Early Career Fellow in Constitutional Studies.

Emma Crewe is a Research Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS and has been teaching and working on international aid, development and politics since the late 1980’s. As a researcher at SOAS, Emma co-ordinated a research coalition investigating Parliament and public engagement in Bangladesh and Ethiopia with Hansard Society and national researchers. In 2017 she established the Global Research Network for Parliaments and People at SOAS with a grant-making programme to support national scholars to study the relationship between Parliaments and People in Myanmar and Ethiopia.