Personal Chair for Richard Luther (Politics)

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Richard Luther

Posted on 19 March 2010

Appointed to a Lectureship in Politics in September 1993, and promoted to Senior Lecturer in September 2000, during his time at Keele Richard Luther has acquired an international reputation for his teaching innovation, as well as for his research expertise, especially in Austrian politics, on which he regularly provides high-level policy advice. Richard has published excellent comparative politics research in international peer-reviewed journals, focusing in particular on consociational democracy and political parties.

Founder of the Keele European Parties Research Unit (KEPRU), he has brought to Keele the internationally renowned PhD summer school on political parties (which he co-initiated), and has shown leadership in encouraging younger staff to produce important research in related areas. His promotion to a personal chair complements the award, in 2009, of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art for his contributions to the study of Austrian politics.

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