Dr Michael Scanlan

  • Lecturer (Political & International Studies)

Biography

I joined the School of Social and Political Sciences in 2021 and was awarded my PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2022. Prior to this, I worked in public relations and public affairs across a number of sectors including the European Parliament.

 

I am committed to public engagement and, in particular, encouraging younger people, especially from deprived areas, to study politics at Glasgow. I regularly visit schools to talk with Higher Politics and Higher Modern Studies students and welcome invitations from schools across Central Scotland.

 

I have a wider variety of teaching responsibilities including the widening participation summer school, pre-honours Politics and honours Politics and seek to guide students through the complexities of the subject and help them towards a life-long love of the study of politics. 

Research interests

  • Populism
  • Identity
  • Nationalism
  • Radical politics
  • Comparative politics
  • Pedagogy of contentious subjects

Research groups

Teaching

Pre-honours

 

  • POLITIC1001 - Politics 1A: Introduction to Politics (co-convener)
  • POLITIC2002 - Politics 2B: Comparative Politics

 

Honours

 

  • POLITIC3019 - Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences
  • POLITIC4182 - Comparative Perspectives on Populism (co-convener)

Michael Scanlan