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ALAN SCOTT, Professor of Sociology, University of Innsbruck

Sprechstunde: Di. 11:00 bis 12:00 Uhr. 

Before coming to Innsbruck in 1999, Alan Scott taught at the UEA, Norwich and University of Southampton prior to which he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Nuffield College, Oxford. He studied Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Essex and took a PhD in Sociology at the University of Leeds. 

Visiting positions: 

  • Visiting Professor, Institut D’Etudes Politique de Paris (Sciences Po), 1997

  • Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of  Cambridge, Easter Term, 2008.

  • Vincent Wright Visiting Chair, Sciences Po, 2009.

My main research interests lie in political sociology, organizational governance, and social theory. I am  Project Leader of a  NODE (New Orientations for Democracy in Europe) research project: "Governance: Multi-Level or Post-Democratic?", a member of the Board (Vorstand) of Wissenschaft und Verantwortlichkeit [Science and Responsibility] (WuV), convener for the Faculty's research programme on Contemporary Europe: Governance and Civil Society (GCS), and the representative within the University for an MA in Peace Studies organized jointly by the University and the Tyrolian Provincial Government. In 2008 a new online journal, Sociology Compass (Blackwell), was launched. I am a subeditor of the section on political sociology (also covering aspects of economic and urban sociology).

Governance Symposia

  • 1st Obergurgl Governance Symposium, 18th-20th October 2007. Click here. For podcasts from the symposium, click here.

  • 2nd Obergurgl Governance Symposium on Governance and Religion, 20th-22nd November 2008. Click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"a major event in Anglophone sociology." Contemporary Sociology

 

  • Students can check out current and forthcoming courses here and have access to course material via the eCampus.

  • Forthcoming lectures & workshops of the Working Group on Science and Responsibility: WuV

 

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