Introduction
Researchers working on the different studies
Information on Principal Investigators and Research Officers

The research programme is being carried out by a team of sociologists, social psychologists, social anthropologists and political scientists. They have been working individually and collectively on matters of constitutional change and social identity for many years. The great diversity and depth of social scientific expertise in the team is being employed in an interlinked way across the range of studies.

The division of labour between the studies and information about the principal investigators and the research officers is shown below.

Researchers working on the different studies

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Information on Principal Investigators and Research Officers

The coordinator of the programme is David McCrone, Professor of Sociology, co-director of the Institute of Governance. His relevant publications include, Understanding Scotland; the sociology of a nation (2001) and The Sociology of Nationalism (1998).
[email David McCrone]

Frank Bechhofer, emeritus Professor of Social Research, together with David McCrone, has carried out studies of national identity among landed and arts elites in Scotland, and more recently in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Their relevant publications include, 'Who are We? Problematising national identity' in Sociological Review, (46, 4, 1998: 629-652) and 'Constructing National Identity: Arts and Landed Elites in Scotland' in Sociology (33, 3, 1999: 515 534), both with Richard Kiely and Robert Stewart.
[email Frank Bechhofer]

Alice Brown is Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh, co-director of the Institute of Governance. She has collaborated with Professors David McCrone and Lindsay Paterson on the ESRC-funded Scottish Election Study 1997, and the Scottish Referendum Study 1997 (along with Paula Surridge, Lecturer in Sociology at Aberdeen University). Together they have published Politics and Society in Scotland (1996 and 1998) and The Scottish Electorate (1998).
[email Alice Brown; email Paula Surridge]

Lindsay Paterson is Professor of Educational Policy at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include, A Diverse Assembly: the Debate on a Scottish Parliament (1998) and 'Scottish higher education and the Scottish parliament: the consequences of mistaken national identity' in European Review, 6(4), 1998.
[email Lindsay Paterson]

John MacInnes is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and his relevant publications include, 'The Myth of the Macho Scotsman' in Scottish Affairs (1998).
[email John MacInnes]

Anthony Cohen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is concerned with the implication of personal and national identities; and with the negotiation and saliency of local or sectional identities within the broad spectrum of a 'national identity. His relevant publications include, Self Consciousness: an alternative anthropology of identity (1994) and 'Personal Nationalism' in American Ethnologist, 1996.
[email Anthony Cohen]

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews. He has carried out comparative research among various english-speaking societies, and has published extensively on issues of identity, meaning and consciousness, including Diverse World-Views in an English Village (1993) and Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of 'Home' in a World of Movement (1998).
[email Nigel Rapport]

Jonathan Hearn is a Social Anthropologist who lectures in the departments of Politics and Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and who has explored the relationships between political discourse, nationhood, and identity in Scotland. His publications include, 'Scottish Nationalism and the Civil Society Concept: Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?' in Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 1997.
[email Jonathan Hearn]

Stephen Reicher is Reader in Psychology at the University of St. Andrews. His interests are in social identity and collective action, work on crowd behaviour, political rhetoric and mass mobilisation, and the construction of social categories (especially national categories). Relevant publications with Nick Hopkins, Lecturer at Dundee University, and Susan Condor, Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University include, 'Stereotype construction as a strategy of influence' in Stereotyping and Social Identity', R. Spears et al. (eds.). Reicher and Hopkins are completing a book on The Social Psychology of Nations and Identity. Dr. Condor's research concerns social identity and popular understandings of the social world, with a specific focus on (English) national identity and representations of national history.
[email Stephen Reicher; email Nick Hopkins; email Susan Condor]

Jackie Abell is working at Lancaster University on the Migrants and 'Nationals' project. She graduated from Dundee University in Psychology, later taking a Masters degree in Critical Social Psychology at Lancaster. She was awarded her Ph.D. from Loughborough University in May 2000. Her research interests are mainly in the application of qualitative approaches to the study of national, royal and political identities.
[email Jackie Abell]

James Kennedy is a Lecturer in Politics and Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. He recently completed a Ph.D. at McGill University, an examination of liberal nationalism in Scotland and QuŽbec between 1899 and 1914. His research interests include nationalism studies, comparative historical sociology and political and sociology. [email James Kennedy]

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Ross Bond is a Research Associate on the project examining the relationship between national identity and economic development, Constitutional Change and Economic Development. He is also working on Academics and National Identity in Scotland and England. He holds an MA and an MSc from the Department of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. He has published articles on Scottish national identity in Scottish Affairs (Summer, 2000) and, with Michael Rosie, in the Hungarian journal, Regio.
[email Ross Bond]

Kate Harrison is Research Associate at the University of St Andrews working on the Young People and Labour Mobility project. She has a BSc(hons) in Zoology from the University of Nottingham and a PhD in Psychology from the University of St Andrews. Her research interests are varied: early research concentrated on feeding skills in primates. More recently she has worked on a variety of projects looking at attitudes to safety in industrial settings. Her most recent post was examining the categorical relationships between social identity and support for others.

Richard Kiely is a Research Officer working at Edinburgh University on the Migrants and 'Nationals' project. His research interests are mainly in the sociology of nationalism, in particular in studies of national identity and Scottish identity and culture. Recent publications include, 'Who are we?: Problematising national identity' in Sociological Review (46, 4, 1998: 629-652) and 'Constructing National Identity: Arts and Landed Elites in Scotland' in Sociology (33, 3, 1999: 515 534), (both with F. Bechhofer, D. McCrone and R. Stewart); and 'Nationalism and Citizenship' in Sociology (34, 1, 2000: 19-34), (with D. McCrone). His other research interests include the sociology of tourism and heritage. In this area, he co-authored Scotland the Brand: The Making of Scottish Heritage (1995) with David McCrone and Angela Morris, published by Edinburgh University Press
[email Richard Kiely]

Pille Petersoo is a PhD student at the Department of Sociology at Edinburgh University. Her doctoral research examines the relationship between mass media and national identity, especially the discursive construction of Self/Other dialectics in the media. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Tartu, Estonia and MSc in Nationalism Studies from the University of Edinburgh.

Michael Rosie is a Research Associate on the project examining the relationship between mass media and national identity, The Role of the Media. He holds an MA and an MSc from the Department of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, where he will shortly complete his PhD. He has published chapters on the political and national identity of Scottish Catholics with David McCrone and, with Ross Bond, on Scottish national identity in the Hungarian journal Regio.
[email Michael Rosie]

Clifford Stevenson is a Research Associate working at Lancaster University on the Migrants and 'Nationals' project. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in Psychology, later taking a Masters degree in Psychological Research Methods at Lancaster University. He is currently completing his Ph.D at Lancaster. His research interests include qualitative methods and their application to national, political and religious identities.

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