Dr Christopher Huggins

Christopher’s research interests are focused on sub-national politics and devolution, the role of local and regional government in European Union politics, and the UK-EU relationship (including Brexit).

Christopher has recently completed work on with colleagues the University of the West of Scotland on an ESRC-funded project to understand the impact of Brexit on UK fisheries policy. This project, which is part of The UK in a Changing Europe (https://ukandeu.ac.uk/), explored what lessons the UK can learn from other non-EU countries such as Iceland, Norway and the Faroe Islands, and also examines how the repatriation of fisheries policy from the EU will affect the UK’s devolution settlement. Building on this, Christopher is currently working on a UKRI-funded project to maximise the knowledge exchange potential of this research and assess the local and regional impacts of the UK’s withdrawal from the Common Fisheries Policy.

Publications

• Flinders, M., & Huggins, C. (2020). Modes of state governance, populist pressures and public sector reform. In J. Connolly and A. van der Zwet (Eds.), Public value management, governance and reform in Britain (pp. 87-114). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55586-3_4 

• Huggins, C. (2020). Channel Arc. In B. Wassenberg, & B. Reitel (Eds.), Critical Dictionary on Cross Border Cooperation in Europe. Peter Lang.

• Connolly, J., van der Zwet, A., Huggins, C., & McAngus, C. (2020). The Governance Capacities of Brexit from a Scottish Perspective: The Case of Fisheries Policy. Public Policy and Administration. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076720936328

• Huggins, C., Barnard, C., Barnes, R., Beukers-Stewart, B., Bevington, M., Carpenter, G., Connolly, J., McAngus, C., Menon, A., van der Zwet, A., Rutter, J., & Cheung, A. (2020). Fisheries and Brexit (report for UK in a Changing Europe). Available at: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/research-papers/fisheries-and-brexit/

• Huggins, C., Connolly, J., McAngus, C., & van der Zwet, A. (2020). Brexit and the Uncertain Future of Fisheries Policy in the United Kingdom. Ocean Yearbook, 34, 20–42. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426214_003

• Huggins, C., Connolly, J., McAngus, C., & van der Zwet, A. (2019). Brexit and the future of UK fisheries governance: learning lessons from Iceland, Norway and the Faroe Islands. Contemporary Social Science, 14(2), 327–340. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2018.1516296

• McAngus, C., Huggins, C., Connolly, J., & van der Zwet, A. (2019). Brexit, Fisheries and Scottish Devolution: An Intergovernmental Disruption. The Political Quarterly, 90(4), 802–807. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12772

• Huggins, C. (2019). The impact of Brexit on English local government. Regions e-Zine, 5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13673882.2018.00001049

• Huggins, C. (2019). Editorial: European Democracy in 2019. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 15(4), 327–330. https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v15i4.1140

• Huggins, C. (2018). Did EU regional spending affect the Brexit referendum? Regional Studies, Regional Science, 5(1), 388–396. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2018.1544852

• McAngus, C., Huggins, C., Connolly, J., & van der Zwet, A. (2018). The politics and governance of UK fisheries after Brexit. Political Insight, 9(3), 8–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041905818796570

• Huggins, C. (2018). Subnational Government and Transnational Networking: The Rationalist Logic of Local Level Europeanization. Journal of Common Market Studies, 56(6), 1263–1282. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12740

• McAngus, C., Huggins, C., van der Zwet, A., & Connolly, J. (2018). Governing UK fisheries after Brexit — lessons from Iceland, Norway and the Faroe Islands (report for UK in a Changing Europe). Available at: http://ukandeu.ac.uk/research-papers/governing-uk-fisheries-after-brexit-lessons-from-iceland-norway-and-the-faroe-islands/

• Huggins, C. (2018). Charting Cross-border Co-operation in the Channel / la Manche Region: Successes and Failures. In B. Wassenberg (ed.), Castle-talks on Cross-Border Cooperation: Fear of Integration? The Pertinence of the Border (pp. 137–152). Franz Steiner-Verlag.

• Huggins, C. (2018). The Future of Cohesion Policy in England: Local Government Responses to Brexit and the Future of Regional Funding. Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto, 58, 131–153. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-58-2018pp131-153

• Huggins, C. (2018). Subnational Transnational Networking and the Continuing Process of Local-level Europeanization. European Urban and Regional Studies, 25(2), 206–227 https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776417691564

• Huggins, C. (2014). Local Enterprise Partnerships and the Development of European Structural and Investment Fund Strategies in England. European Structural and Investment Funds Journal, 2(2), 183–189.

• Huggins, C. (2014). Arranging and Conducting Elite Interviews: Practical Considerations. SAGE Research Methods Cases. https://doi.org10.4135/978144627305013514687

Taught master’s programme in cross-border co-operation at Sciences Po in the University of Strasbourg, France in January 2020.