Roger Awan-Scully, , also known as Roger Scully, is a British

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

and academic. He has authored numerous books including: ''Becoming Europeans? Attitudes, Behaviour, and Socialization in the European Parliament'', and co-authored ''Representing Europe’s Citizens? Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation in Europe and Wales Says Yes: Devolution and the 2011 Welsh Referendum''. He is

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of political science at the School of Law and Politics of Cardiff University. He is principal investigator for the

ESRC The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), formerly the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) funded by the UK government. ESRC provides fundi ...

-funded 2016 Welsh Election Study. Scully studied at the University of Lancaster and the University of

Durham Durham most commonly refers to: *Durham, England, a cathedral city and the county town of County Durham *County Durham, an English county * Durham County, North Carolina, a county in North Carolina, United States *Durham, North Carolina, a city in N ...

, and earned a PhD from

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

. He was lecturer in European politics at

Brunel University Brunel University London is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It was founded in 1966 and named after the Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In June ...

from 1997 to 1999, and joined Aberystwyth University in January 2000. At Aberystwyth, he was promoted to senior lecturer (2004) and reader (2006), before becoming professor of political science in 2007.

Awards and distinctions

Scully was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2010, and a

Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales The Learned Society of Wales ( Welsh: Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru) is a learned society and charity that exists to "celebrate, recognise, preserve, protect and encourage excellence in all of the scholarly disciplines", and to serve the Welsh natio ...

(FLSW) in 2011. He is also a

Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. ...

. He was awarded the Political Studies Association’s award for Political Studies Communicator of the Year 2017.

Media

Scully also writes for the ''

New Statesman The ''New Statesman'' is a British Political magazine, political and cultural magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney Webb, Sidney and Beatrice ...

'' and talks about elections and politics on Sky News, BBC Wales,

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, BBC Radio 5 Live, ITV, and ABC. In 2013 he started a blog entitled
Elections in Wales
', on which he discusses electoral politics and political representation.

Selected works

* * * * * * Awan-Scully, Roger (2018) ''The End of British Party Politics. London Biteback Publishing. ''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Awan-Scully, Roger Living people British political scientists European Union and European integration scholars Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society Academics of Cardiff University Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Durham University