John Loughlin, FAcSS, FLSW(born 1948) is a British-based academic and educator from Northern Ireland, and a noted specialist in European territorial politics.
Loughlin attended St Finian's Primary School followed by St. Malachy's College, Belfast.
[4] He was a Fellow of St Edmund's College where he directed the Von Hügel Institute until his retirement in September 2015.
He was also a senior fellow and affiliated lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies of the University of Cambridge.
These included: He is the author of the authoritative Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe,[6] and numerous other books and conference proceedings, published in several languages.