Derek Stanford Hutcheson
Co-Director
Political Sciences
GPS
Sweden
Biography
Derek Hutcheson is Associate Professor (Docent) in Political Science at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published extensively on electoral politics, particularly of the post-Soviet region, and on the electoral rights of transnational citizens. Prior to working in Sweden, he was head of European Studies at University College Dublin from 2006 to 2013 and an ESRC and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow University (2002-05). In association with his involvement in the Global Citizenship Observatory (formerly EUDO-Citizenship), he was also invited to spend several months at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence as an EU Research Fellow in 2016. He is co-director (with Prof. Bo Petersson) of the ICLD-funded project on 'Legitimacy, urban planning and sustainability in Russia and Sweden' (LUPSRUSS, 2017-18), and Research Co-ordinator for Malmö University on the EU-funded project, 'Fostering Awareness, Inclusion and Recognition of EU mobile citizens’ Political Rights' (FAIREU), which runs from 1 January 2018 to 30 June 2019.
Research Interest
Statsvetenskap Forskning om europa Valforskning Ryssland medborgarskap Europastudier Migration Samhällsvetenskap Tvärvetenskapliga forskningsområden Hållbar stadsplanering Politisk legitimitet
