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Nasar Meer

(He/Him)
Professor in Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow

Nasar Meer is Professor of School & Political Science at the University of Glasgow.

He has been co-Investigator of The Impacts of the Pandemic on Ethnic and Racialized Groups in the UK (UKRI, 2021-2023) and Principal Investigator of the Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe's Refugees (GLIMER) (JPI ERA Net / Horizon-2020).

​He was a Commissioner on the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (2020-2021) Post-COVID-19 Futures Inquiry, a Member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 and Ethnicity Expert Reference Group and the British Council's Outreach Program, and formerly elected co-Chair of Young Academy of Scotland (YAS), and elected Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and the Social Policy Association (SPA).

He is an elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and Trustee and Academic Committee Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation.

He is currently co-Editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power; co-Editor of 21st Century Standpoints (BSA and Policy Press) and co-Editor of Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (PPICS).

Experience

  • 2023–2024
    Professor of Social & Political Science, University of Glasgow
  • 2017–2023
    Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh
  • 2014–2017
    Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Citizenship , University of Strathclyde