Jo Shaw

Jo Shaw[1] FRSE holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, one of the established chairs at the University of Edinburgh, and was director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities 2014-17.

Between 2009 and 2014 she was dean of research of the College of Humanities and Social Science of the University of Edinburgh.

After receiving a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award to study citizenship in the former Yugoslavia (CITSEE), she was nominated for inclusion on the web site AcademiaNet,[2] which profiles world-leading women academics.

Before moving to Edinburgh she was professor of European law at the University of Manchester.

[6] She was chair of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) between 2003 and 2006.