Top appointment for Jane Duckett

Published: 25 September 2014

Professor Jane Duckett, who is the Edward Caird Chair of Politics at the University of Glasgow, has been appointed President of the British Association for Chinese Studies.

Professor Jane Duckett, who is the Edward Caird Chair of Politics at the University of Glasgow, has been appointed President of the British Association for Chinese Studies - a non-political organisation that encourages and promotes the study of China in Britain.

Professor Duckett is the Director of both the Scottish Centre for China Research and the Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow. She is also Guest Professor at Nankai University, in Tianjin, China. Her early research focused on the Chinese state under market reform and she is currently examining the politics of China’s social policy making and implementation.


First published: 25 September 2014