Dr Ewan Kerr is a Research Associate in the School of Social & Political Science. He is currently working on the Leverhulme-funded project Democratic Localism and Global Policy Mobility. The two-year project will investigate the transformative potential and prospects for urban political initiatives to generate alternatives to dominant forms of economic development and top-down political governance, and reflect on how political change can be achieved from below and in dialogue with other places. He is also an Associate Editor of the journal Critical Sociology, and a co-founder of the Trade Unions and Labour Environmentalism Network.

Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University, examining state-society relations during crisis periods as part of the ESRC-funded ENDURE project. Between 2021-22, he was employed as a Senior Teaching Fellow in Environmental Politics at The University of Edinburgh, and a Lecturer in Politics at Glasgow Caledonian University between 2017 and 2021. Ewan was awarded his PhD in March 2021, and also holds an MSc in Political Research from the University of Strathclyde, and a BA (Hons) in Politics with Sociology from Glasgow Caledonian University.

• State-Society Relations 
• Crises and Crisis Theory
• Multilevel Governance
• (De)Politicisation
• Scottish and UK politics
• Climate Politics
• Social Movements and Labour Studies

Research groups

• Socio-Environmental Action
• Social & Urban Policy

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