{"id":1058,"date":"2013-03-20T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk\/teamweb\/electionscentre\/?page_id=1058"},"modified":"2015-12-02T21:27:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:27:23","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/?page_id=1058","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre conducts research\u00a0in both academic and applied fields.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 Rallings and Thrasher received the Political Studies Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psa.ac.uk\/\">PSA<\/a>) Communication award &#8216;in recognition of their crucial work on elections over a sustained period of time&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>The Centre has provided input to House of Commons Select Committees. These include the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee in both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201011\/cmselect\/cmpolcon\/437\/437we13.htm\">2010<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201012\/cmselect\/cmpolcon\/1463\/1463vw02.htm\">2011<\/a>. In 2012 Thrasher gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201213\/cmselect\/cmcomloc\/432\/120702.htm\">oral evidence<\/a> before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/clg\">Communities and Local Government Select Committee<\/a>. You can watch the session, which took place on Monday 2nd July 2012, below.<\/p>\n<p>The link on the right provides details of the Centre&#8217;s publications<\/p>\n<p>Download the House of Commons Select Committee Report<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201213\/cmselect\/cmcomloc\/432\/432.pdf\">Councillors on the frontline, House of Commons (2013)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre conducts research\u00a0in both academic and applied fields. In 2007 Rallings and Thrasher received the Political Studies Association (PSA) Communication award &#8216;in recognition of their crucial work on elections over a sustained period of time&#8217;. The Centre has provided input to House of Commons Select Committees. These include the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/?page_id=1058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5YXV0-h4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electionscentre.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}