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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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Politics
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

Professor Christina Boswell FBA explores how definitions of politics have shifted in recent years and sets out the contemporary challenge for political scientists.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Gary Gerstle FBA

Political thought, institutions, and conflict in 19th and 20th century US; immigration, race, and nationhood in America from founding to present

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Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA

European military history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and especially the First World War; modern strategic studies

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Professor Kristian Gleditsch FBA

Conflict research; political mobilization; democratization and regime change; geography and politics; applied statistics; data development.

Kristian Gleditsch FBA

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