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 (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

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 Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

. He is principal investigator for the

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-funded 2016 Welsh Election Study. Scully studied at the University of Lancaster and the University of Durham, and earned a PhD from

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. He was lecturer in European politics at

Brunel University Brunel University of London (BUL) is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It is named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution. It became a university ...

from 1997 to 1999, and joined

Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth University () is a Public university, public Research university, research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The university has over 8,000 stude ...

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 () is a national academy, 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 nation. The Learned ...

(FLSW) in 2011. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He was awarded the Political Studies Association’s award for Political Studies Communicator of the Year 2017.

Media

Scully also writes for the ''

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'' and talks about elections and politics on

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BBC Wales BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcasting, public broadcaster in Wales. It is one of the four BBC national regions, alongside the BBC English Regions, BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Scotland. Established in 1964, ...

, World Service,

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, 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