Jo Shaw

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, one of the established chairs at the

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, and was director of the

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2014-17. Between 2009 and 2014 she was dean of research of the College of Humanities and Social Science of the

. Her research focuses on citizenship in the broader European context. She is the author of a widely used textbook on European Union law. After receiving a

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Advanced Investigator Award to study citizenship in the former Yugoslavia (CITSEE), she was nominated for inclusion on the web site AcademiaNet, which profiles world-leading women academics. Before moving to Edinburgh she was professor of European law at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. Professor Shaw is a fellow of the

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and the

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. In 2015 the

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, the

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, conferred the Chancellor's Award for Research on Professor Shaw in recognition of her outstanding contributions to research. Since 2001 she has been a senior research fellow at

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. She is co-director of the GlobalCIT Observatory at the European University Institute. She was chair of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (

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) between 2003 and 2006.

Selected bibliography

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