Thomas Loughran

We are busy working on a new project on Votes at 16 in Wales. Young people aged 16 and 17 can now vote in Welsh…

We are pleased to announce that our research article 'A coming of age: how and why the UK became the first democracy to allow votes…

Due to the current evolving situation related to Covid-19 we have unfortunately had to postpone a number of forthcoming impact and policy events. We intend…

On 3rd March 2020 the Lowering the Voting Age project team hosted a policy-making event at the Pierhead Building in Cardiff on ‘Implementing Votes-at-16 in…

On 25th January 2020 we hosted a major conference at the People’s History Museum in Manchester bringing together young people and policymakers to reflect on…

Please use this link to view the collaborative policy-report, entitled "Young People's Political Engagement 2019", that has now been released by Partnership Young London following…

On Saturday 25th January 2019 we will be hosting a Conference at the People's History Museum in Manchester.  This will be the first in a…

We are pleased to announce that our latest article '"Votes at 16" and Lessons From 1969' has been published in the September 2019 edition of…

On 11th December 2019 Dr Thomas Loughran presented findings from our project to the Democracy and Elections research group at the University of Manchester.  The…

On 10th December 2019 Dr Thomas Loughran took part in a televised roundtable discussion on the UK Voting Age.  The discussion took place on TRT…