Dr Stephen Bates

Dr Stephen Bates

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Senior Lecturer in Political Science

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6264
Email
s.r.bates@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
POLSIS - School of Government
Muirhead Tower
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Stephen is a senior lecturer in political science. Before re-joining POLSIS in 2007, he was a research fellow  in the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (Innogen) at the University of Edinburgh.

Qualifications

PhD Political Science (Birmingham)

Biography

I co-convene the second year course Analysing Political Worlds and convene the third year course聽Parliamentary Studies.

My research is in the area of parliamentary studies, focusing mainly on parliamentary roles and parliamentary committees. For the academic year 2021-22, I will be a Parliamentary Academic Fellow in the UK Parliament, undertaking a research project on the impact of gendered and raced membership patterns of House of Commons Select Committees.

I am the co-convenor of the Parliaments specialist group of the UK Political Studies Association.

Teaching

  • Parliamentary Studies (POLS 372)

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising postgraduate research in parliamentary and legislative studies and/or British politics.

Research

  • Parliamentary committees
  • Parliamentary roles
  • Power and political agency
  • The status of women in academia

Other activities

He is the co-convenor of the 75th Political Studies Association Annual Conference, to be held in Birmingham in April 2025. He is also a board member of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee of Legislative Specialists.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Bates, S, Horncastle, W, Bhattacharya, C & McKay, S 2024, '', Parliamentary Affairs.

Bhattacharya, C, Hart, G, Haughey, S, Bates, S & Meakin, A 2022, '', Parliamentary Affairs.

Bates, S 2021, '', International Journal of Parliamentary Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22鈥�46.

Goodwin, M, Bates, S & McKay, S 2020, '', Politics & Gender.

Bates, S, Amery, F, McKay, S, Miller, C & Pflaeger Young, Z 2020, '', Politics, pp. 1.

Pflaeger Young, Z, Amery, F, Bates, S, McKay, S, Miller, C, Billings, T, Hayton, R, Holt, M, Khatri, J, Marvin, M, Ogunsanya, L, Ramdehal, A & Sullivan, R 2020, '', Political Studies Review.

Gaines, B, Goodwin, M, Bates, S & Sin, G 2019, '', The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 409-433.

McKay, S, Goodwin, M & Bates, S 2019, '', Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 799-820.

Gaines, B, Goodwin, M, Bates, S & Sin, G 2019, '', The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 434-441.

Bates, S & Sealey, A 2019, '', European Journal of Politics & Gender, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 237鈥�256 .

Gaines, B, Goodwin, M, Bates, S & Sin, G 2019, '', The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 331-339.

Bates, S, Goodwin, M & McKay, S 2017, '', Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 780鈥�800.

Chapter

Bates, S, Thompson, L, Goodwin, M & McKay, S 2021, . in S Siefken & H Rommetvedt (eds), Parliamentary Committees in the Policy Process. Library of Legislative Studies, Routledge, London, pp. 302-319.

Bates, S, Kerr, P & Serban, R 2018, . in C Leston-Bandiera & L Thompson (eds), Exploring Parliament. Oxford University Press, pp. 174-186.

Editorial

Bhattacharya, C, Hart, G, Haughey, S, Bates, S & Meakin, A 2022, '', Parliamentary Affairs.

Expertise

  • Prime Minister's Questions
  • UK Parliament

Media experience

  • BBC Radio 4's