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Information below relates to the directors of
the Institute of Governance and others
who contribute to it.
If you would like any additional information please contact Lindsay
Adams.
Institute staff and associated members
Professor David McCrone
Co-Director of the Institute
of Governance, Professor of Sociology
David McCrone's expertise is in the sociology of Scotland, and the comparative
sociology of nationalism. More recently his work has focused on national
identity, and particularly the ways in which people construct and negotiate
these and other identities for themselves. He has been closely involved
in the making of the new Scottish Parliament, and in the election studies
associated with it. He was a member of the Expert Panel on procedures
and standing orders for the Scottish Parliament, and advisor to the enquiry
into the Parliament's founding principles conducted by its Procedures
Committee. He is currently coordinator of the research
programme funded by The Leverhulme Trust on Constitutional Change and
National Identity (1999-2004), and a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh.
Recent books include:
Understanding Scotland: the sociology of a nation (2001);
The Sociology of Nationalism: tomorrow's ancestors (1998);
The Scottish Electorate: the 1997 general election and
beyond (1999);
Politics and Society in Scotland (1996; 2nd edition 1998);
and
Scotland - the Brand: the making of Scottish Heritage
(1995).
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Professor Charlie Jeffery
Co-Director
of the Institute of Governance, Professor of Politics
Charlie Jeffery works on comparative territorial politics. His focus
is on the relationships of distinctive regions and sub-state nations
to state-level institutions, including voting behaviour and party systems,
territorial finance, questions of territory and citizenship, and territorial
policy divergence. He also works comparatively on multi-level governance
in the European Union. He directs the Economic and Social Research Council's
research programme on Devolution and Constitutional Change, coordinating
38 research projects across the UK. He has contributed to several major
policy enquiries on devolution matters for UK, Welsh, Northern Irish
and Scottish public bodies, was Specialist Adviser to the UK Select Committee
on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2004, and advises the European
Union's Committee of the Regions.
Recent books and special issues of leading
journals include:
Germany's European Diplomacy. Shaping the Regional Milieu (with Simon
Bulmer and William E. Paterson), 2000.
Verfassungspolitik und Verfassungswandel.
Deutschland und Grossbritannien im Vergleich (ed., with Gert-Joachim
Glaessner and Werner Reutter),
2001.
Devolution and the English Question (co-editor, with John
Mawson), Regional Studies, 2002
Multi-Level Electoral Competition (co-editor,
with Daniel Hough and Michael Keating), European Urban and Regional
Studies, 2003.
Money Matters: Territorial Finance in Decentralised States
(co-editor with David Heald), Regional and Federal Studies, 2003.
The
2003 Devolved Elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: Election
Campaigns, Voting Behaviour, Electoral
Systems and Representation
(ed.), Representation, 2004.
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Eberhard Bort
Academic Co-ordinator of the Institute
of Governance (inc. Coordinator of the Political
Internship Programme)
Eberhard Bort, a graduate in English and German of T»bingen University,
is the Academic Coordinator of the Institute of Governance and a Lecturer
in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. He teaches Scottish Society
and Culture, Contemporary Irish Politics and British Studies.
Before coming to Edinburgh in 1995, he worked at T»bingen University
in British and Irish Studies with Christopher Harvie, taught in German
Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, and at the University of Puget Sound,
Tacoma, Wa., USA.
Between 1995 and 1998 he worked with Malcolm Anderson on an ESRC-funded
research project on 'The Internal and External Frontiers of the European
Union'. From 1997 to 1999 he was Associate Director of the International
Social Sciences Institute at Edinburgh University
Recent publications include:
(ed., with Malcolm Anderson), The Frontiers of Europe
(Pinter, 1998), and The Irish Border: History,
Politics, Culture (Liverpool University Press, 1999);
(ed., with Russell Keat), The Boundaries of Understanding
(ISSI, 1999);
(ed., with Neil Evans), Networking Europe: Essays on
Regionalism and Social Democracy (Liverpool University Press, 2000);
and
with Malcolm Anderson, The Frontiers of the European
Union, (Basingstoke and London: Palgrave, 2001).
He has also edited books on Irish Drama and published articles in learned
journals on Irish and Scottish politics and culture and on UK devolution
and European regionalism.
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Lindsay Paterson
Associate Director of the Institute of Governance, Professor
of Educational Policy at the University of Edinburgh 
Lindsay Paterson is professor of educational policy at Moray House Institute
of Education, University of Edinburgh. He has worked previously in Heriot-Watt
University and in the scientific civil service.
He is a sociologist by profession, and has academic interests in education,
politics and culture:
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In education, his interests are in the expansion of higher education,
in social class inequalities in access to education, and in the history
of education.
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In politics, his interests are in social democracy and its relationship
to national identity.
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In culture, he is interested in the democratisation of culture over
the past century and in the relationship among culture, politics
and education.
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Having worked as a scientist in the early part of his career, he
has a particular interest in the relationship between the sciences
and the humanities, and in the distinctive Scottish contribution
to that relationship.
He has written widely on these topics in academic and professional
journals and in political and cultural periodicals. He is a regular contributor
to both the print and the broadcast media in Scotland and in many other
countries, and has written reports for several professional bodies on
the actual and likely effects of the Scottish Parliament on policy making
and on education. He has advised two committees of the Scottish Parliament
(Education, and Lifelong Learning). He is regularly invited to speak
at conferences of educational and other professionals in Scotland. He
is editor of Scottish Affairs.
His books include:
The Autonomy of Modern Scotland (1994, Edinburgh University
Press);
Politics and Society in Scotland (with Alice Brown and
David McCrone, 1996, second edition 1998, Macmillan);
A Diverse Assembly: the Debate on a Scottish Parliament
(1998, Edinburgh University Press);
The Scottish Electorate: the 1997 General Election and
Beyond (with Alice Brown, David McCrone and Paula Surridge, 1999, Macmillan);
Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences
(with Frank Bechhofer, 2000, Routledge);
Crisis in the Classroom: the Exams Debacle and the Way
Ahead for Scottish Education (2000, Mainstream);
Education and the Scottish Parliament (2000, Dunedin
Academic Press);
New Scotland, New Politics? (with Alice Brown, John Curtice,
Kerstin Hinds, David McCrone, Alison Park, Kerry Sproston and Paula
Surridge, 2001, Edinburgh University Press); and
New Scotland, New Society? (edited with John Curtice,
David McCrone and Alison Park, November 2001, Edinburgh University
Press).
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Fiona Mackay
Associate Director of the Institute of Governance, Lecturer in Politics
at the University of Edinburgh
A former journalist. Appointed Lecturer in 1997. Her research and teaching
interests are in the broad area of women and politics, and gender and
public policy. She has held a number of research grants and consultancies
with bodies including the ESRC, the EOC, Rowntree, the Scottish Office
Constitution Group and the Scottish Executive.
She has co-written a number of policy-related reports on equal opportunities,
political representation and political participation. Currently, she
is carrying out comparative research (with others) on gender and constitutional
change under the ESRC Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme;
and on women in the Scottish Parliament (funded also by the ESRC). She
has published a number of articles and book chapters and is co-editor
of Women and Contemporary Scottish Politics (Polygon at Edinburgh,
2001). She is currently completing a book on women and political representation
and a co-edited collection on the changing politics of gender equality.
You can visit the
web site for the Gender and Constitutional Change research project
at http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/gcc/index.html.
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Jonathan Hearn
Associate Director of the Institute
of Governance
 Studied
anthropology at Bard College (BA) and the City University of New York
(Ph.D.). He is a lecturer in the School of Social and Political Studies
and convenes the MSc in Nationalism Studies.
Broadly interested in issues of culture and power, he specialises in
the study of nationalism, civil society, social movements, and moral
discourse, and has explored these primarily in relation to Scottish society
and politics. He takes a particular interest in the articulation of formal
and informal structures of power in society.
He did extensive ethnographic research on the home rule movement in
Scotland in the mid-1990s. As part of the Leverhulme Trust's Nations
and Regions Research Programme he has recently completed another year
of ethnographic research at a major Scottish clearing bank, studying
the role of institutions in shaping national identity. He is currently
analysing writing on that fieldwork data. He is also currently writing
a general text that takes a critical look at nationalism studies and
how it deals with concepts of culture and power.
Recent publications include:
Claiming Scotland: National Identity and Liberal Culture, Edinburgh:
Polygon at Edinburgh, 2000;
'Narrative, Agency and Mood: On the Social Construction of National
History in Scotland', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 44(4),
Autumn 2002;
'Identity, Class and Civil Society in Scotland's Neonationalism', Nations
and Nationalism 8(1), January 2002;
'Taking Liberties: Contesting Visions of the Civil Society Project',
Critique of Anthropology, 21(4), December 2001;
'Big City: Civic Symbolism and Scottish Nationalism', Scottish Affairs,
42, Winter 2003.
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Nicola McEwen
Associate Director of the Institute
of Governance, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh
 Initially
appointed to Politics in January 2001, Nicola completed an ESRC post-doctoral
fellowship at Edinburgh, and assumed a permanent position in Politics
in October 2003. She is an Associate Director of the Institute of Governance,
and Co-Convenor of the PSA specialist group on British and Comparative
Territorial Politics. Nicola presented her doctoral thesis, entitled
'State Welfare Nationalism: the territorial impact of welfare state development
in Scotland and Quebec', in 2001, following doctoral studies at Sheffield
University and fieldwork in Quebec. Her main research interests include
comparative nationalism and territorial politics, the politics of devolution
in the UK, and Scottish politics. She is currently working on a monograph
and an edited collection examining the relationship between nationalism
and the welfare state.
Recent publications include:
'State welfare and the impact of welfare retrenchment on the constitutional
debate in Scotland', Regional and Federal Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, pp.
66-90 (2002)
'The Nation-Building Role of State Welfare in the United Kingdom and
Canada', in Keating, M and T Salmon (eds), The Dynamics of Decentralization:
Canadian Federalism and British Devolution (McGill-Queens University
Press, 2002).
'The Scottish National Party: progress and prospects', in Hassan, G
and C Warhurst (eds), Tomorrow's Scotland (Lawrence and Wishart, 2002).
'Is Devolution at Risk? Examining attitudes towards the Scottish Parliament
in light of the 2003 Election', Scottish Affairs, vol. 44, summer, 2003, pp.54-73.
'The Depoliticization of National Identity? Scottish Territorial Politics
after Devolution', in Longley, E, E Hughes and D O'Rawe (eds), Ireland
(Ulster) Scotland: Concepts, Contexts, Comparisons (Belfast Studies in
Language, Culture and Politics 7, QUB, 2003).
'Pragmatic Nationalists? The Scottish Labour Party and Nationalism',
in Hassan, G (ed), The Scottish Labour Party: History, Institutions and
Ideas (Edinburgh University Press, 2004).
'Do Shared Values Underpin National Identity? National Identity and
Value Consensus in Canada and the UK' (with Ailsa Henderson), National
Identities (forthcoming)
'Social Democracy and Self-Government: A Comparative Analysis of the
Scottish and Quebec referendums' in Coates, C and A Henderson (eds) (forthcoming).
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Currenty on leave of absence as Public Services Ombudsman:
Professor Alice Brown
Co-founder of the Institute of Governance, Professor of Politics
and formerly Vice Principal (Community Relations) of Edinburgh University
 She
began her academic career in 1984 after working in the private sector.
Having held lectureships in Economics at the University of Stirling and
Edinburgh, she took up a full-time post in the Department of Politics
at Edinburgh University in 1990.
Teaching and research interests include Scottish politics, constitutional
change, women and politics, and gender and public policy. She has received
a number of research grants from different bodies, including the ESRC,
Leverhulme, Rowntree, the EOC and the Scottish Executive. She holds different
public appointments and was a member of the Scottish Higher Education
Funding Council, The Committee on Standards in Public Life, and the EOC
Advisory Group. Until her appointment as Public Services Ombudsman, she
was Chair of the Community Planning Taskforce in Scotland.
Publications include:
New Scotland, New Politics (Edinburgh University Press,
2001);
The Scottish Electorate (Macmillan, 1999);
Politics and Society in Scotland (Macmillan, 1998 and
1996);
A Major Crisis: The Politics of Economic Policy in Britain
in the 1990s (Dartmouth, 1996); and
Restructuring Education in Ireland (1993).
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