Professor Jo Shaw

Professor Jo Shaw is Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, Head of Edinburgh Law School and Acting Principal Investigator of PeaceRep.

Shaw has held the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) since 2005, following periods at the universities of Leeds and Manchester, where she held a Chair in European Law. Shaw is a leading scholar in the field of citizenship and constitutionalism, especially in the context of the European Union. 

Professor Shaw has extensive experience leading research programmes and institutions. Between 2009-2013, she was Dean of Research of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, leading on research development and REF submission for the College. From 2014-2017 she was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

Since 2017, she has been working on a set of related projects on citizenship regimes: what they are and how they work. Her work has been supported by a EURIAS Fellowship at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2017-2018) and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2018-2020). She is also co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory. Her current work builds on research previously funded by the European Research Council and the Nuffield Foundation.