| Michael Keating is Professor of Politics, University of Aberdeen. He is co-convenor of the Scottish Policy Innovation Forum and the Scotland in the World initiative. He has held university posts in Scotland, England, Canada and the European University Institute in Florence and visiting posts in the USA, Spain, France, Norway and Australia. Michael Keating's work has focused on issues of territorial politics, nationalism, devolution and public policy in the United Kingdom and on a comparative European basis. Currently he holds an ESRC professorial fellowship to work on spatial rescaling in Europe and on improving academic-practitioner exchanges in Scotland. Michael's most recent book is The Independence of Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2009). |