Legislative Studies and Practice Programme Blog: Ross Graham – Bill Office
The Legislative Studies and Practice
Programme was established in 2009 to provide university graduates with the
opportunity to experience working in the Assembly and get a peek behind the
curtain of Northern Irish political life. The Programme runs in partnership
with Queen’s University Belfast and is part of a Master’s qualification in
Legislative Studies and Practice. Students contribute fully to the work of
their placement office and use their experience to undertake original research
leading to the development of a dissertation.
Now in its eighth year, 40 students have
completed the programme so far and over the next few months we will be catching
up with the current group, finding out how they are adapting to life in the Assembly and what
they are making of the experience.
We begin in
the Bill Office with Ross Graham. Coleraine-native Ross graduated from the
University of Manchester in 2014 with a Degree in Politics and History. After
leaving University, Ross worked for the polling and research company ComRes, based in Westminster. With a
keen interest in politics, Ross already knows his way around Parliament
Buildings, having completed a week’s work experience with former Deputy
Speaker, John Dallat, in 2009.
Ross has
been placed in the Bill Office and provides us with an insight into how he’s
finding life in the thick of our legislative process –
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