YouGov-Cambridge

By: Dr Joel Faulkner Rogers

Since the Greek economy received its first bail-out package in 2010, significant currents of national debate in the UK have encouraged a sense that British voters might be ready for a generational chance to withdraw from much of the Brussels policy-process into a looser, outer Europe that functions less like a union and more like an amplified free-trade area.

By: Sarah O’Hara, Mathew Humphrey, and Marianna Poberezhskaya (University of Nottingham)

Shale gas has, in the space of a few short years, gone from being a little known and little used energy resource to one that is mired in controversy, with arguments raging about the potential environmental impacts of its exploitation and use.

By: Rachel Orr (Shelter)

Yesterday’s headlines show why you can never relegate an issue ‘to the sidelines of an election’ until the votes have been counted. In the past 24 hours London’s housing crisis has shot up the agenda with the publication of Newham’s letter seeking housing for its residents as far away as Stoke-on-Trent.

By: Professor Andrew Gamble

Professor Gamble, who helps to direct the YouGov-POLIS Programme at Cambridge, discusses the need for greater engagement between academia and other public sphere institutions, such as media and think-tanks, in the effort to link ideas with action.

By: Philip Cowley (University of Nottingham) and Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck, University of London)

If politicians have to start revealing their tax returns, how will voters respond? To test this, we tried a very simple split sample experiment. We showed a third of a normal YouGov sample the profiles of two imaginary candidates, called John and George…

By: Louis Coiffait (Head of Research, Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning)

Higher education (HE) in England continues to dominate the headlines. In order to gather some new evidence for these debates the Pearson CPL have collaborated with YouGov-Cambridge for a second time, asking a representative sample of the British public what they think about higher education…

Adam Boulton discusses whether democratic federalisation is the answer to Europe’s crisis with a panel made up of Baroness Neville-Jones (Special Representative to Business on Cyber Security), Lord Glasman (Labour peer), John Redwood MP (Leader of the Conservative Policy Group on Economic Competitiveness), Alex Ellis (Director of Strategy, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Declan Ganley (Chairman and CEO, Ganley Group of Companies).