DR RUXANDRA SERBAN
Public engagement
I enjoy sharing my research with audiences beyond academia through writing, radio, podcasts, and events. Please get in touch if you think we could work together on something.
Radio
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LBC News, Live interview about Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister, 20 July 2026.
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BBC Radio 4 Today in Parliament, Andy Burnham becoming Prime Minister during House of Commons recess, 10 July 2026 (Listen here from 1:08).
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BBC Radio 4 Today in Parliament, Adversarial language in Prime Minister's Questions procedures in different countries, 15 September 2023.
Podcasts
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Hansard Society 'Parliament Matters' podcast, 'Prime Minister's Questions: Westminster's Weekly Gladiatorial Combat', August 2025.
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UCL Uncovering Politics podcast, 'How Parliaments Question Prime Ministers' January 2024.
Selected blogs
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A new First Minister's Questions procedure in the Scottish Parliament: How will it work? PSA Parliaments, September 2026.
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Should Andy Burnham face the House of Commons before recess? UK in a Changing Europe, July 2026.
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Are there too many Urgent Questions in the House of Commons? Hansard Society, June 2026.
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Prime Minister’s Question Period in the Canadian House of Commons: Lessons in parliamentary reform, Constitution Unit Blog, October 2025.
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How has Keir Starmer changed Prime Minister's Questions? (with Tom Fleming), Constitution Unit Blog, April 2025.
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Not interested in a second fiddle – why the French parliament’s Prime Minister’s Questions experiment failed (with Calixte Bloquet), Constitution Unit Blog, February 2025.
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Why the French parliament tried to introduce Prime Minister’s Questions (with Calixte Bloquet), Constitution Unit Blog, February 2025.
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Is confrontational questioning bad for parliaments and democratic politics?, Constitution Unit Blog, September 2023.
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60 years of Prime Minister’s Questions: seven changes that shaped PMQs, LSE British Politics and Policy, July 2021.
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Why there is no such thing as the Westminster model (with Meg Russell), The Constitution Unit Blog, August 2020 (reposted by LSE British Politics and Policy).
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Can the new parliament hold the Prime Minister to account?, LSE British Politics and Policy, December 2019.
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Punch & Judy Politics? The roles and functions of Prime Minister’s Question Time (Book review), The Constitution Unit Blog, October 2018.
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The report of the Scottish Parliamentary Reform Commission: Westminster as a model for reforming Holyrood?, The Constitution Unit Blog, July 2017.