Dr Michelle Clement
Lecturer and Researcher in Residence at No.10 Downing Street
Dr Clement is a Lecturer on reform and delivery in government and Researcher in Residence at No.10 Downing Street.
Dr Clement completed her PhD on ‘The Art of Delivery: Sir Michael Barber and the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit 2001 to 2005’. The PhD is the first academic study of the PMDU with access to Barber’s unpublished diaries from the period.
As Researcher in Residence at No.10 Downing Street, Dr Clement examines the history of No.10 and the role of Prime Minister. Dr Clement provides historical briefings focusing on how former Prime Ministers have utilised the centre of government to deliver their agendas.
Formerly Dr Clement worked at the British Academy as a Policy Adviser and at Queen Mary, University of London as Strategic Partnerships Coordinator (Tech City) where she worked closely with government, academia, digital and creative industries to facilitate collaboration.
Dr Clement’s research focuses on British government and public service reform – how Prime Ministers and Cabinet craft policy programmes and create effective mechanisms to deliver.
Dr Michelle Clement teaches two modules on the MA Government Studies:
- New Labour Years: The Blair Brown Revolution
- The History of The Civil Service: Evolution of the Machinery of Government
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optional module
This innovative module, in partnership with the Cabinet Office, focuses on the evolution of the British Civil Service and how its role has developed alongside the changing role of the state. World wars, the creation of the welfare state, as well as technological, economic and societal change has carved new functions and expectations of what government is there to do.
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core module
These two modules, run in partnership with No. 10 Downing Street, examine how British Prime Ministers governed in the years 1945 – to the present day.
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News story
How the MA in Government Studies partners with institutions
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News story
The insider’s view of how government really works
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Podcast
In this special episode of the Strand Group podcast, Sir Tony Blair answered our students’ questions on liberal intervention, the history of the Labour Party, how to deliver in government & more. With expert analysis from Dr Michelle Clement and John Rentoul.
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Research
This blog gives insights into the history of government – its development, its departments and some of the roles and people involved
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Research
A new video history
10 Downing Street
The Policy Institute at King’s
King’s College London
Hewlett Packard
Margaret Thatcher and No.10 is an innovative contemporary history project, produced by the Policy Institute at King’s College London in collaboration with No. 10 Downing Street.
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