Research groups

Citizens, Communication and Political Actors

Focussing on the great diversity of political actors - including parties, candidates, voters, and the media, as well as members of legislatures, governments, and bureaucracies - their interactions with one another, and the implications of these interactions.

Gender and Sexualities Forum

A forum for scholars pursuing research around the broad fields of gender and sexualities. We offer a creative intellectual space that provides a platform for developing new research ideas and collaborations as well as solidifying research agendas and sharing outputs.

Global and Regional Governance

Bringing together staff and PhD students who analyse the myriad forms of cross-border governance, aiming to foster individual and collective research excellence through encouraging exchange and collaboration.

Information Democracy Technology Network

A flexible and adaptable organisation, facilitating research into the convergence of information, democracy and technology across disciplines. We are interested in how democracy is supported and/or subverted by information, technology and the increasing convergence of the two in the 21st century.

Social and International Theory

Reflecting and advancing primary academic emphases of current staff in Politics, focussing mainly on theoretical questions on international political order.

Stevenson Trust for Citizenship

Making provision in Glasgow for instruction in the rights, duties, and obligations of citizens in relation to the city, the state, and the commonwealth of nations; and promoting study, inquiry and research in subjects bearing on local government, national polity, and international community.

Transformation

Providing a space for comparative political analysis within and across regions, including but not limited to Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, East Asia and Latin America.