Professor Dr Nasar Meer FRSE

Professor Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow

Nasar Meer FBA SE FAcSS is Professor of Social and Political Science at the University of Glasgow and Academic Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation. He is co-Investigator of The Impacts of the Pandemic on Ethnic and Racialized Groups in the UK (ESRC) and Principal Investigator of the Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees (GLIMER) (JPI ERA Net / Horizon-2020). He has been a Commissioner on the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Post-COVID-19 Futures Inquiry, a Member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 and Ethnicity Expert Reference Group, and co-Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Identities: Global Studies n Culture and Power, and his recent publications include The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (2022) and The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges (co-authored, 2020). He has previously held a Minda de Gunzburg Fellowship at Harvard University, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and a past recipient of the RSE Thomas Reid Medal.

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