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Professor Robert Geyer

Professor of Politics, Complexity and Policy

Degree: B.A. University of California-San Diego, M.A. University of Essex, M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Associated research centres and groups: Research Group on Europe and Globalisation

Current Teaching

Professor Geyer supervises PhD. students in international political economy, European politics, policy and integration, Scandinavian politics, and Complexity and public policy. For a video recording of his work on complexity and policy see: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/iss/digital/cwru/

Research Interests

Robert Geyer is Professor of Politics, Complexity and Policy. When not in Lancaster he tries to spend as much time as he can with his family at their hytte (cabin) in Norway.

Professor Geyer has:

• been a Rapporteur on the High Level Scientific Panel for the EU Framework 6 New and Emerging Science and Technologies (NEST) programme and a Project Proposal Reviewer for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Arts and Humanities ResearchCouncil (AHRC)and EU Framework 6 New and Emerging Science and Technologies (NEST) programme.
• received over 70 international/national speaking invitations throughout North America and Europe.
• given keynote addresses to the annual conferences of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management and UK Complexity Society and the 2005 Complexity, Science and Society conference.
• been a Director on the Council of Management of the UK Complexity Society.
• taught at the University of Wisconsin, Marquette University and University of Liverpool and been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Davis.
• received research funding from the British Academy, European Science Foundation, ESRC, ESRC/NEXUS programme, EPSRC, Lancaster University, University of Liverpool, Marquette University, Nuffield Foundation, Scandinavian American Foundation and Social Science Research Council.
• published articles for newspapers in Britain, Norway and the USA and been on BBC radio and Granada television and won the, European Voice, international writing competition in September 2001. On 16 January 2004, his work and the activities of the Centre for Complexity Research were profiled in the Times Higher Education Supplement.
• founded and was the Director (2002-2007) of the Centre for Complexity Research (CCR, later ComplexNetwork). While acting as Director, the CCR had over 800 members from 44 different countries and virtually every academic discipline and supported a wide variety of research projects and proposals.The activities of the CCR were recognised by the AHRB, ESRC, EPSRC, Wellcome Trust, Royal Society for Chemistry and were profiled in the Times Higher Education Supplement.
• created the Complexity, Science and Society conference (11-14 Sept. 2005), the first of its kind in the UK, bringing together over 400 participants from 35 countries in 18 different academic disciplines. For video summaries of some of the presentations see: http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/CSS05 The implications of the conference were discussed in R Geyer and J Bogg 'Outside all of the boxes: How complexity combines Newton and disorder' Times Higher Education Supplement , 23 September 2005.
• reviewed articles for Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Comparative European Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Current Politics and Economics of Europe, Governance, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Social Policy, New Political Economy, Policy and Politics, Progress in Development Studies, Review of Radical Political Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Theory, Culture and Society and West European Politics and reviewed book proposals for Palgrave, Radcliffe, Routledge, Sage and Policy Press.
• been a member of the Diabetes Research Group, Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool

Potential Doctoral Proposals

He is interested in supervising PhD students in the following broad areas:

- European Union politics and policy

-Social and health policy

-International Political Economy

-Complexity, politics and public policy

-Scandinavian politics and policy

Publications

Books

(co-authored with Samir Rihani) Complexity and Public Policy: A New Approach to 21st Century Politics, Policy and Society. London: Routledge 2010

(co-edited with Jan Bogg) Complexity, Science and Society, Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing 2007.

(co-authored with Helen Cooper) Riding the Diabetes Rollercoaster: A Patient and Carers Guide, Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing 2007.

(co-authored with Andrew MacIntosh) Integrating UK and European Social Policy: The Complexity of Europeanisation, Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2005.

Exploring European Social Policy. Oxford: Polity Press, 2000.

(co-edited with Christine Ingebritsen and Jonathon Moses) Globalization, Europeanization, and the End of Scandinavian Social Democracy? London: Macmillan 2000.

The Uncertain Union: British and Norwegian Social Democrats in an Integrating Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.

Articles:

(forthcoming Summer 2011) 'The Politics of EU Health Policy and the Case of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising for Prescription Drugs' British Journal of Politics and International Relations.

(forthcoming Summer 2011) 'Can Complexity Move UK Policy Beyond Evidence-based Policy-making and the Audit Culture? Applying a Complexity Cascade to Education and Health Policy' Political Studies.

(co-authored with Steve Pickering) 'Applying the Tools of Complexity to the International Realm: From Fitness Landscapes to Complexity Cascades', Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 24, 1, March 2011.

(co-authored with Simon Lightfoot) 'The Strengths and Limits of New Forms of EU Governance: The Cases of Mainstreaming and Impact Assessment in EU Public Health and Sustainable Development Policy' Journal of European Integration, 32, 4, July 2010.

(co-authored with Helen Cooper) 'What can Complexity Do for Diabetes Management: Linking Theory to Practice', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2009, 15, 4.

(co-authored with Helen Cooper) 'Using Complexity for Improving Educational Research in Health Care', Journal of Social Science and Medicine, 67, 1, July 2008.

(co-authored with Suzy Braye and Helen Cooper) 'Complexity and Interprofessional Care'. Learning in Health and Social Care, 3, 4, 2004

'European Integration, the Problem of Complexity and the Revision of Theory'. Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 41, Number 1, 2003.

'Beyond the Third Way: The Science of Complexity and the Politics of Choice'. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Spring 2003.

'The End of Globalisation and Europeanisation, Rise of Complexity and Future of Scandinavian Exceptionalism'. Governance, 16, 4, 2003.

'Can EU Social NGOs Promote EU Social Policy?' Journal of Social Policy, 30, 3, 2001.

(co-authored with Samir Rihani) 'Complexity: A New Framework for Development Theory'. Progress in Development Studies, 1, 3, 2001.

'The State of European Union Social Policy'. Policy Studies, 21, 3, 2000.

'Can Mainstreaming save EU Social Policy? The Cases of Gender, Disability, and Elderly Policy'. Current Politics and Economics of Europe, 10, 2, 2000.

'Can EU Social Policy Save the Social Exclusion Unit and Vice Versa?' Politics, 19, 3, 1999.

'Globalisation and the (Non) Defence of the Welfare State'. West European Politics, 21, 3, 1998.

(co-authored with Duane Swank) 'Rejecting the EU: Norwegian Social Democratic Opposition to the EU in the 1990s'. Party Politics, 3, 4, 1997.

'Traditional Norwegian Social Democracy and the Rejection of the EU: A Troublesome Victory'. Scandinavian Studies, 69, 3, 1997.

'EU Social Policy in the 1990s: Does Maastricht Matter?' Journal of European Integration, 20, 1, Spring 1997.

'Globalization and the Crisis of Social Democracy: Explaining the Development of British and Norwegian Labor Parties' EU Policies in the 1980s and 1990s'. New Political Science, 33-35, Fall-Winter 1995.

(co-authored with Jeffrey Ayres) 'Defying Conventional Wisdom: Political Opposition to Economic Integration in Canada and Denmark'. Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics Volume 33, 3, November 1995.

'Democratic Socialism and the EC: The British Case', Journal of European Integration, 16, 1, Fall 1992.

'EFs Sosialpolitikk etter Maastricht: Mot en europeisk velferdsstat' (EC Social Policy After Maastricht: Towards a European Welfare State?), Internasjonal Politikk, (Norway) 3, 1992.

Book Chapters:

'Britain in the European Union' in N. Ellison and C. Pierson (eds.) New Developments in British Social Policy. Palgrave: London 2003.

'EU Social Policy, Euro-Federalism, and Complexity Theory' in C. Parsons (ed.) Evolving Federalisms: The Intergovernmental Balance of Power in America and Europe. Campbell Public Affairs Institute: Syracuse NY 2003.

'Can Mainstreaming Save EU Social Policy' reprinted in Frank Columbus(ed.) European Economic and Political Issues Vol.7, Nova Science Publishers: New York, NY 2002.

'Introduction' (co-written with Christine Ingebritsen and Jonathon Moses), in R. Geyer et al. (eds.), Globalization, Europeanization and the End of Scandinavian Social Democracy?, London, Macmillan, 2000.

'Just Say NO! Norwegian Social Democrats and Europeanization', in R. Geyer et al. (eds.), Globalization, Europeanization, and the End of Scandinavian Social Democracy?, London, Macmillan, 2000.

(co-authored with Beverly Springer) 'A European Success Story? The Development and Impact of the European Works Council Directive', in Pierre-Henri Laurent and M. Maresceau (eds.), The State of the European Union, Boulder, Lynne Rienner, 1997.

'Socialism and the EC After Maastricht: From Classic to New Model European Social Democracy' in Alan Cafruny and Glenda Rosenthal (eds.), The State of The European Community, Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993.

'The European Community and the Modernization of Social Democracy', in Ulf Hedetoft (ed.), Nation or Integration? Perspectives on Europe in the 1990s, Aalborg University Press, Aalborg, Denmark, 1993.

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

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Associated Keywords: Complexity, European Union social policy, International political economy, International relations, Politics, Social policy

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