Ivor Crewe

Sir Ivor Martin Crewe (born 15 December 1945) is the Master of University College, Oxford. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and Professor in the Department of Government.

Crewe was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then went to Exeter College, Oxford, where he gained a first-class BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1966. From 1977 to 1982, he was editor of the British Journal of Political Science and from 1984 to 1992 he was a co-editor.

From 1995 to 1 September 2007, he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and is a former Chair of the 1994 Group and President of Universities UK. The Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall at the university, completed in 2006, is named after him.^[1]^[2]

In July 2008, Sir Ivor succeeded Lord Butler of Brockwell as Master of University College, Oxford.

He is generally credited with being the person to first write about pocket book voting, particularly in the 1987 general election.

He was appointed Knight Bachelor by HM The Queen in the New Year Honours List 2006.^[3]

References

^ Lecture hall shortlisted for award, University of Essex, UK, 10 March 2008.
^ Shining light in Essex: Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall, World Architecture News, 10 June 2008.
^ "University honours Vice-Chancellor". University of Essex Communications Office. 2007-04-03. http://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2007/nr20070403.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-29.

Bibliography

Ivor Crewe, 'The Electorate: Partisan Dealignment Ten Years On (1984)', West European Politics, 6(4), pp. 183–215.
Ivor Crewe, 'Has the Electorate Become Thatcherite?', in Robert Skidelsky (ed.), Thatcherism (Chatto & Windus, 1988), pp. 25–49.
Ivor Crewe, 'Values: The Crusade that Failed' in Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon (eds.), The Thatcher Effect (Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 239-50.
Ivor Crewe, 'Margaret Thatcher: As the British Saw Her', The Public Perspective, Vol. 2(2), January/February 1991, pp. 15–17.
Ivor Crewe, 'The Thatcher legacy', in Anthony King (ed.), Britain At The Polls, 1992 (Chatham House, 1992), pp. 1–28.
Ivor Crewe, 'Electoral Behaviour' in Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon (eds.), The Major Effect (Macmillan, 1994), pp. 99–121.
Ivor Crewe and Anthony King, SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the British Social Democratic Party (Oxford University Press, 1995).

External links

Biography from EPSRC.
Ivor Crewe: all to play for, The Guardian, February 3, 2004.
Sir Ivor Crewe's CV, slightly out of date on 25 September 2008

Academic offices
Preceded by Lord Butler of Brockwell	Master of University College, Oxford 2008–	Succeeded by Incumbent

Heads of Houses of the University of Oxford

Colleges	All Souls Vickers • Balliol Graham • Brasenose Bowman • Christ Church Lewis • Corpus Christi Carwardine • Exeter Cairncross • Green Templeton Bundy • Harris Manchester Waller • Hertford Landers • Jesus Krebs • Keble Cameron • Kellogg Michie • Lady Margaret Hall Lannon • Linacre Slack • Lincoln Langford • Magdalen Clary • Mansfield Walford • Merton Taylor • New College Price • Nuffield Nickell • Oriel Morris • Pembroke Henderson • Queen's Madden • St Anne's Gardam • St Antony's MacMillan • St Catherine's Ainsworth • St Cross Jones • St Edmund Hall Gull • St Hilda's Forbes • St Hugh's Dilnot • St John's Scholar • St Peter's Damazer • Somerville Prochaska • Trinity Roberts • University Crewe • Wadham Chalmers • Wolfson Lee • Worcester Bate

Permanent Private Halls	Blackfriars Finn • Campion Hall Callaghan • Regent's Park College Ellis • St Benet's Hall Stephens • St Stephen's House Ward • Wycliffe Hall Turnbull

Recognised Independent Centres	Buddhist Studies Gombrich • Energy Studies Allsopp • Hebrew and Jewish Studies Ariel • Hindu Studies Rishi Das • Islamic Studies Nizami

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