Dr Alex Wright
Contact Details:
Email: a.wright@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1382 384594
Dr Alex Wright is Convener for the 1MA politics and policy course which is usually held in semester 1. He also teaches two courses at years 3 and 4 (Contemporary UK Politics and Scottish Politics respectively).
His research interests have focused on Scotland's relations with the European Union, devolution in the UK and regionalism in Europe.
Teaching
Undergraduate Modules
Publications
Britain and European Integration since 1945: On the Sidelines, with D. Gowland and A. Turner (London: Routledge, 2010).
'The SNP and the UK', in The Contemporary SNP, ed. by G. Hassan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009).
Contributor to Stateless Nations and Regions in The European Mosaic, ed. by D. Gowland, R. Dunphy and C. Lythe (2006).
'Holyrood and Europe: An incremental response to Deparliamentarisation', with Tapio Raunio, Journal of Regional and Federal Studies (2006).
Who Governs Scotland? (London: Routledge, 2005).
'Devolution, Westminster and the EU' in Britain in the European Union: Law, Policy and Parliament, ed. by P. Giddens and G. Drewry (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004).
'The Internationalisation of Scottish Politics. Who Governs Scotland?', in Regional Institutions and Governance in the European Union, ed. by J Magone, (USA: Praeger, 2003).
'Scotland and the EU: Is Territorial Empowerment in the EU Froth or Substance?', Perspectives on European Politics: A Journal of Intra-European Dialogue (Spring 2002)
'A Federalized Scotland - Alternatives to Independence: Scotland in Europe', in Modernising Britain: Central, Devolved, Federal?, ed. by Stanley Henig (London: The Federal Trust, 2002).
'Scotland and the EU: Independence or Federalism', European Essay No 18 (London: Federal Trust, 2001).
2002 Review of CFP, Scottish Affairs, 32 (Summer 2000), 59-78
'The Europeanisation of Scotland'. A Driver for Autonomy', in Europe United, the United Kingdom Disunited?, ed. by M. Graves and G. Girrard, (University of Brest, 2000).
Scotland: the Challenge of Devolution, ed. and author (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2000).
'2003: A Year to Regret?', in EMU. An Expanding Europe and the World (London: QEAC, 1998), pp. 19-27.
'Scotland and the EU: A case of Subsidiarity or Dependency?', in Conference Proceedings: Scotland's Boundaries and Identities in the Next Millennium (Dundee, 1998)
'Scottish Fishermen and the EU: A choice between two Unions?', Scottish Affairs, 14 (Winter 1996), 27-41
'The Europeanisation of the Scottish Office', in Region Building, ed. by Sally Hardy et al, (London: Regional Studies Association, 1995), pp. 81-85.
Academic and Ministerial Appointments
- 2007: Academic Fellow for 2007, The Hansard Society, London.
- 2002-2007: Assessor for the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland
- 2000-2005: Devolution Monitor Programme: Responsible for contributions on Scotland and the EU, and Scotland and the UK's institutions of government, on behalf of the Constitution Unit, University College London,
- 2002: Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the University of Edinburgh
- 1998 - 2002: Council Member of the Scottish Consumer Council
Conference Organiser
- 2002: Co-organised a conference with the Federal Trust on Governance, Devolution, Federalism and Independence, University of Dundee, June.
- 1999: I organised a major conference on the Scottish Parliament at the University of Dundee.
Events Organiser
New Scotland: New Politics?
Between 2000 and 2003 I organised a series of public seminars at the University of Dundee, during which a number of high profile figures in Scottish politics gave presentations, followed by questions. Although the seminars were designed primarily for the academic community at Dundee, the seminars were open to the public.
The figures that attended included:
- David McLetchie MSP, when leader of the Scottish Conservatives
- Alex Salmond MSP, when leader of the SNP
- Jim Wallace MSP , when leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Tommy Sheridan, when leader of the Scottish Socialist Party
- Brian Wilson MP, Minister of State at the Scotland Office
- Roseanna Cunningham MSP, when Deputy Convener SNP
- Alex Johnstone MSP, Chief Whip, Scottish Conservatives
- Patricia Ferguson MSP, when minister for the parliament
- Tavish Scott MSP, former minister for the parliament, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Lord Steel of Aikwood MSP, Presiding Officer, the Scottish Parliament
- Lord Watson MSP, former Labour Minister
- Lords James Douglas-Hamilton MSP, former Scottish Office minister, Scottish Conservatives.
- Brian Taylor, the political editor of the BBC
- Dennis Canavan MSP, independent
- John Swinney MSP, when leader of the SNP
- Ross Finnie MSP, minister for agriculture and fisheries, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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