Professor Nicola McEwen

Professor of Public Policy and Governance (Centre for Public Policy)
Associate (School of Social & Political Sciences)

Biography

Professor Nicola McEwen is a Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the College of Social Sciences and Director of the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Glasgow.

Nicola was previously at Edinburgh University from 2001, first as Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in 2006, and as Professor of Territorial Politics from 2014. She was founding Co-Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change, where she remains a Research Fellow. Nicola completed a Senior Research Fellowship with the ESRC UK in a Changing Europe, having previously been Principal Investigator of one of its prestigious Brexit Priority Grants. Her project, entitled A Family of Nations? Brexit, Devolution and the Union, explored intergovernmental relations in UK-EU negotiations, and the implications of Brexit for devolution and the future of the Union. From 2019-2022, Nicola was Research Fellow in a major ESRC-funded project, Between Two Unions: The Constitutional Future of the Islands after Brexit, where she led the research strand charting the evolution of intergovernmental relations.

Nicola has published widely in the field of territorial politics, nationalism, multi-level government and policy-making, and multi-level parties and elections. She is actively involved in informing debate within the wider policy and political community, through with extensive experience in providing analysis in broadcast, print and social media, public engagement, advice to governments and parliamentary committees, and consultancy.

Nicola supervises a wide range of Research Masters and PhD students exploring nationalism, devolution, constitutional change, multi-level government and policy, electoral politics and party politics.

Research interests

Comparative territorial politics
Devolution and multi-level governance
Brexit
Nationalism and the politics of national identity
Elections and electoral participation
Scottish politics

Publications

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Number of items: 7.

2024

McEwen, N. and Brown Swan, C. (2024) The Scottish Government - Scottish Parliament Written Agreement on Intergovernmental Relations: Still Fit for Purpose? [Research Reports or Papers]

Brown Swan, C., Horsley, T., McEwen, N. and Whitten, L.-C. (2024) Westminster Rules? The United Kingdom Internal Market Act and Devolution. [Research Reports or Papers]

2022

Dougan, M., Hunt, J., McEwen, N. and McHarg, A. (2022) Sleeping with an elephant: Devolution and the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020. Law Quarterly Review, 138, pp. 650-676.

McEwen, N. (2022) The limits of self rule without shared rule. In: Requejo, F. and Sanjaume-Calvet, M. (eds.) Defensive Federalism: Protecting Territorial Minorities from the "Tyranny of the Majority". Series: Routledge studies in federalism and decentralization. Routledge, pp. 67-85. ISBN 9781032281964 (doi: 10.4324/9781003296065-4)

McEwen, N. (2022) Irreconcilable sovereignties? Brexit and Scottish self-government. Territory, Politics, Governance, 10(5), pp. 733-749. (doi: 10.1080/21622671.2022.2044898)

McEwen, N. and Murphy, M. C. (2022) Brexit and the union: Territorial voice, exit and re-entry strategies in Scotland and Northern Ireland after EU exit. International Political Science Review, 43(3), pp. 374-389. (doi: 10.1177/0192512121990543)