Why study in Northern Ireland?

Aidan Garner studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Queen’s University Belfast, followed by a Public Policy MSc at UCL (University College London).

He has a background in devolved and local policymaking, including working on skills policy in the Department for the Economy NI.

Aidan is interested in how power, economic growth and democratic participation are organised across these islands.

He is a researcher at Demos – a leading cross-party think tank in London – where he has a particular interest in constitutional and institutional democratic reforms, devolution and regional growth, savings mechanisms and skills policy.

Aidan’s research and writing covers a wide variety of policy areas and he has co-authored reports on housing and planning, immigration, and public service reform.

He delivers the “Waves” programme – scaling digital deliberative democracy in local government – and contributes to Demos’s ongoing work to depolarise immigration through public participation.

🗓️ Thursday 17 September
🕖 8am
📍 Ballymascanlon Hotel & Golf Resort, Dundalk

Conference tickets are available here.

Details on the programme, speakers and sponsors are available here.