Professor Dorothy Miell, Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science, issued the following announcement on 17 September 2013:
"Following a recent interview process I am pleased to announce that we have now appointed to the role of Director of IASH. With effect from 1st January 2014, for a three year term in the first instance, Professor Jo Shaw will be the Director of IASH. Professor Jolyon Mitchell will be taking up a role as Academic Director in IASH. Professor Mitchell will continue in the role of Acting Director until the end of December 2013."
Jo Shaw holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions in Edinburgh Law School and has been Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science since 2009. Her website at the Law School is here.
Previously she was the Law School's Director of Research, and Co-Director of the Edinburgh Europa Institute.
Before coming to Edinburgh in 2005, Jo was Professor of European Law and Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Manchester between 2001 and 2004, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Her earlier appointments included a post as Professor of European Law and Jean Monnet Chair of European Law and Integration at the University of Leeds, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Law in Europe, between 1995 and 2001, and posts at the Universities of Keele and Exeter, and University College London.
Jo's research interests lie in the areas of citizenship and constitutionalism in relation to the EU and a number of European states, including the new states of South East Europe. She holds a European Research Council grant on the Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the former Yugoslavia, and co-directs the EUDO Citizenship Observatory (www.eudo-citizenship.eu).
We look forward very much to welcoming her to IASH in January and to working with her in the coming months.