Rate My Professor Michael Kenny

Kenny’s academic interests focus on public policy, governance and devolution, territorial politics, British politics and political ideas, the politics of place, and English governance. He leads research on infrastructure policy and, as part of The Productivity Institute, examines institutional and governance questions related to UK productivity. Currently, he is co-authoring ‘The World Island’ with Nick Pearce, exploring policy and ideological implications of the UK as a maritime state. Kenny teaches on the MPhil in Public Policy. His key publications include Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK (Hurst Publishers, 2024), Shadows of Empire: The Anglosphere in British Politics (with Nick Pearce, Polity, 2018), The Politics of English Nationhood (Oxford University Press, 2014)—winner of the UK Political Studies Association’s ‘Mackenzie’ prize—and Governing England (editor, Proceedings of the British Academy, 2018). He has delivered public lectures, including his inaugural lecture for the Department of Politics and International Studies, and contributed to policy discussions on UK constitutional matters.