British Academy Recognition for Glasgow Academic

Professor Sarah Birch, recently appointed Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow is one of 42 new Fellows to be elected to the British Academy. The announcement was made at the Annual General Meeting of the British Academy, with the new Fellows being recognised for their outstanding research and work across the humanities and social sciences. Professor Anne Anderson, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Social Sciences said: "This is a tremendous accolade to receive. Professor Birch's work in the fields of comparative politics, political ethics, electoral institutions and electoral integrity and environmental politics have added much to our understanding of the world we live in. On behalf of the College of Social Sciences, and indeed everyone at the University of Glasgow, I want to congratulate her on this well deserved recognition." Professor Birch joined the University of Glasgow in July 2013, having previously spent 17 years teaching at the University of Essex. Over the course of the past ten years her main research programme has been the comparative study of electoral malpractice. The first part of this research culminated in her 2011 monograph Electoral Malpractice (Oxford University Press) as well as a series of journal articles.