The following academics at Edinburgh all have research interests relating to Canada.
School of Social and Political Science
| Staff Member |
Research Interests |
Dr Ailsa Henderson
(Politics & IR)) |
Political cultures; Social attitudes in Nunavut |
Dr Eve Hepburn
(Politics & IR) |
Substate regional party systems in Canada. Island politics in Canada |
Prof Charlie Jeffery
(Politics & IR) |
Comparative territorial politics;
Multilevel governance |
Dr Fiona Mackay
(Politics & IR) |
Women and comparative politics; Gender and public policy |
Dr Nicola McEwen
(Politics & IR) |
Sub-state nationalism in Canada and UK; Comparative territorial politics |
Prof Charles Raab
(Politics & IR) |
Public access to information; Information technology and public policy |
Dr Wilfried Swenden
(Politics & IR) |
Comparative federalism |
Prof Alan Barnard
(Social Anthropology) |
Hunter-gatherer societies; Language and kinship |
Dr John Harries
(Honorary Research Fellow, Social Anthropology) |
Affective materiality and social memory; travel, tourism and imagining of landscape; identity and indigenity in postcolonial settler societies, in particular Newfoundland, Canada |
Dr Jonathan Hearn
(Sociology) |
Nationalism; Civil Society and Moral Discourse; Institutional shaping of national identity
|
Dr James Kennedy
(Sociology) |
Sociology of nationalism; Québécois and Scottish nationalism |
Mr Richard Parry
(Social Policy) |
Costs of public administration; Civil services at federal and provincial level |
Prof Kay Tisdall
(Social Policy) |
Theorising children's participation, investigating school councils, and the usefulness of the legal category of ‘children in need' |
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
| Staff Member |
Research Interests |
Dr Ella Chmielewska
(Cultural Studies) |
Visual culture; Urban graffiti in Montreal; Practices of commemoration and display |
Dr Lee Spinks
(English Literature) |
Michael Ondaatje
Postcolonial writing |
Dr
Andrew Taylor
(English Literature) |
Transatlantic Literatures |
Dr Michelle Keown
(English Literature) |
Settler subjectivities in Canadian literature; postcolonial literature and theory |
Prof
Susan Manning
(Institute for the Advanced Study of
the Humanities) |
Transatlantic Literatures |
Dr Margaret Mackay
(Honorary Fellow, Celtic and Scottish Studies) |
Oral histories of Scottish migration to Canada |
Dr John Shaw
(Celtic and Scottish Studies) |
Gaelic ethnology
in Nova Scotia
|
School of History
| Staff Member |
Research Interests |
Prof
Tom Devine
(Scottish History) |
Canada as part of Scotland's empire; Scottish-Canadian migration and trade. |
Dr Amy Lloyd
(Economics and Social History) |
British emigration |
Dr
Alex Murdoch
(Scottish History) |
Scottish-Canadian migration |
Prof
Robert Morris
(History) |
Urban history of Montreal |
Prof Richard Rodger
(History)
|
Urban history, Environment and Planning: Montreal, Toronto and prairie cities |
