Professor Robert Hazell - Director, Constitution Unit University College London
Professor Robert Hazell is Director of the Constitution Unit. He founded the Unit in 1995 as an independent think-tank specialising in constitutional reform. Before that he was Director of the Nuffield Foundation for six years, and before that a senior civil servant in the Home Office (1975-89). He started his career as a barrister (1973-75).
Robert's research interests cover the whole of the constitutional reform agenda. They include devolution in Scotland, Wales and the English regions, freedom of information, parliamentary reform, Lords reform, a British bill of rights, referendums, electoral reform, the Crown and royal prerogative, constitutional watchdogs, and the process of constitutional reform. He is a great believer in collaborative research and leads research teams rather than conducting his own research.
He was director of the 1999-2005 Leverhulme funded research programme into the Dynamics of Devolution, which had 12 projects and 25 partners. He is currently director of an ESRC funded project evaluating the impact of freedom of information (2007-2009), and an ESRC and government funded project monitoring the latest developments in devolution (2006-2008).
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