Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i.

květen - červen 2003

Institute of Governance

Public Policy & Social Research
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast, BT7 1JP (United Kingdom)
+44 (0)28 9027 3693
A.Sloat@qub.ac.uk

Education

University of Edinburgh, Department of Politics; Edinburgh, Scotland

• Ph.D. in Politics, 2001
• Thesis: "Scotland's Role in the European Union: Expectations of Multi-Level Governance among Political Elites - An Actor-Centred Approach"

Michigan State University, James Madison College; East Lansing, Michigan

• B.A. in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, 1997
• Thesis: "The Future of Liberal Democracy: An Analysis of the Controversy Surrounding Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man"

Policy analysis and research

Queen's University Belfast, Institute of Governance, Public Policy & Social Research (Sep '01 -)

• Research Fellow: Co-ordinating EU-funded FP5 research programme on the civic and political participation of women in Central and Eastern European accession countries.

Northern Ireland Assembly, Committee for Finance and Personnel (June -November 2002)

• Specialist Advisor: Assisted inquiry into European structural funds and Community Initiatives.

Scottish Parliament, European Committee (May -November 2001)

• Advisor: Assisted inquiry into European governance.

European Commission, Secretariat General (October 2000-February 2001)

• Trainee: Assisted with the preparation of "White Paper on Governance."

University of Edinburgh (October 1998-September 2000)

• Lecturer/Tutor: Taught 3 courses on Scottish, British and European politics

Constitution Unit, University College London (Summer 2000); Governance of Scotland Forum, University of Edinburgh (Jan '99-Sep '00); Centre for Scottish Public Policy (Summer 1998)

• Research assistant on Scottish, British and European politics

Key publications

• Scotland in Europe: A Study of Multi-Level Governance (2002) (Bern: Peter Lang)
• "The Preparation of the Governance White Paper" (2003) Politics, May, Vol. 23(2)
• "Reconfiguring Scottish Politics: Domestic Governance vs. European Influence" (2002) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Winter, Vol. 53, No. 4
• "The Impact of Europeanisation on Regional Governance: A Study of Catalonia and Scotland," (2002) with Elisa Roller, Public Policy and Administration, Summer, Vol. 17, No. 2
• "An Actor-Centred Approach to Multi-Level Governance: Expectations of Scotland's Role in Europe" (2002) Regional and Federal Studies, Autumn, Vol. 12, No. 3
• "Governance: Contested Perceptions of Civic Participation" (2002) Scottish Affairs, Spring, 39
• "Scotland and Europe: Links Between Edinburgh, London and Brussels" (2000) Scottish Affairs, Spring, 31