Full Name Josephine Shaw | Nationality UK | |
Website www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/joshaw Education Trinity College Cambridge and Université libre de Bruxelles Discipline European Union legal scholar Sub discipline Citizenship and constitutionalism Institutions University of Edinburgh, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, Keele University, University of Exeter | ||
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Jo Shaw holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, one of the established chairs at the University of Edinburgh, and has been director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities since 2014. Between 2009 and 2014 she was dean of research of the College of Humanities and Social Science of the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on citizenship in the broader European context. She is the author of a widely used textbook on European Union law.
After receiving a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award to study citizenship in the former Yugoslavia (CITSEE), she was nominated for inclusion on the web site AcademiaNet, which profiles world-leading women academics.
Before moving to Edinburgh she was professor of European law at the University of Manchester.
She is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2015 the Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, HRH the Princess Royal, conferred the Chancellor's Award for Research on Professor Shaw in recognition of her outstanding contributions to research. Since 2001 she has been a Senior Research Fellow at The Federal Trust. She is co-director of the EUDO Citizenship Observatory. She was chair of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies between 2003 and 2006.