Richard joined the Department of Political Economy in October 2023. He previously worked for the UK Labour Party and as an environmental campaigner. His history of British politics and culture in the 1990s, The Future That Never Happened, was published in 2017. He is a regular political commentator on radio, on television and in print.

Office hours

Tuesday: 11.15 - 12:15

Bush House (NE), room 7.21

You can book a slot in advance (or just drop in)

Research interests

• Climate and energy politics
• New Labour 
• Recent British political history 

Doctoral research

An oral history of New Labour’s climate and sustainable energy policymaking.

PhD supervisors

Dr Michael Kandiah and Professor Sarah Birch 

Latest publications

Power-Sayeed, R. (2017) “1997: The Future that Never Happened” Zed. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/1997-9781786991980/

Power-Sayeed, R. (2021) “Ideas are only half the story” in Renewal, Volume 29 Number 4. https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/renewal/vol-29-issue-4/abstract-9464/