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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 Tariq Modood FBA

Theory and politics of multiculturalism, secularism, Islamophobia, racial equality; sociology of ethnic minorities in higher education and employment; with special reference to Muslims in Western Europe

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Professor Michael Walzer FBA

The politics and morality of war with special emphasis right now on asymmetric war; also the complicated relations of religion and nationalism in the years since World War Two

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Professor Susan Banducci FBA

Comparative public opinion, elections and media; gender and politics; social science research methods

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