Professor Christina Boswell FBA

Theories of public policy, the role of knowledge in policy and politics, governance and performance measurement, UK and EU immigration and asylum policy

Elected 2019

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Sections: Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
Website: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/professor-christina-boswell

Current post

Professor of Politics, University of Edinburgh; Dean of Research, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Edinburgh Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Politics

2006 - 2011

Hamburg Institute of International Economics and University of Hamburg Post-doctoral Fellow

2001 - 2006

Publications

Manufacturing Political Trust: Targets and Performance Measurement in Public Policy

Christina Boswell - Published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press

The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration Policy and Social Research

Christina Boswell - Published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press

The Ethics of Refugee Policy

Christina Boswell - Published in 2005 by Routledge

European Migration Policies in Flux: Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion

Christina Boswell - Published in 2003 by Wiley-Blackwell

What is politics?

14 Jan 2020 Professor Christina Boswell FBA

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Professor Rudolf Klein FBA

Social Policy and Administration

Professor Charles Tripp FBA

Politics in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq & Egypt; Islamic political thought; the relationship between art & power in the Middle East.

Professor Peter Katzenstein FBA

Problems that lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics, addressing issues of political economy, security and culture in world politics