Alan Scott

Professor of Sociology, University of Innsbruck.

Before coming to Innsbruck in 1999, Alan Scott taught at the UEA, Norwich and University of Southampton prior to which he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Nuffield College, Oxford. He studied Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Essex and took a PhD in Sociology at the University of Leeds.

• Subeditor of the political sociology section of Blackwell's Sociology Compass  (fully online from Jan. 2008)
• Journal editorial boards memberships: Sociology (1994-97); Max Weber Studies (2000-) and Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences (LATISS) (2007-)
• Scientific Advisor on the EU research project Trust in Food (2002-05)
• Convenor of the Theory Study Group of the British Sociological Association (1993-99)

Visiting positions:

• Visiting Professor, Institut D’Etudes Politique de Paris (Sciences Po), 1997
• Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of  Cambridge, Easter Term, 2008.
• Vincent Wright Visiting Chair, Sciences Po, 2009.

His main research interests lie in political sociology, organizational governance, and social theory

Some publications about globalisation and HE

• ‘Governing Disciplines: Reform and Placation in the Austrian University System’ (co-author
  with Claudia Meister-Scheytt). In Jeroen Huisman (ed.) International Perspectives on the
  Governance of Higher Education. London: Routledge, 2009: 52-68.
  
• Bright Satanic Mills: Universities, Territorial Development and the Knowledge Economy (coeditor
  with Christian Burtscher, Alan Harding and Stephan Laske, and contributor). Aldershot:
  Ashgate 2007
• 'Universities and the regulatory framework: The Austrian university system in transition' (coauthor
  with Christian Burtscher and Pier-Paolo Pasqualoni). Social Epistemology, 20 (3), 2006:
  241-58. Special Edition on Universities in the Knowledge Economy: Places of Expectation/
  Spaces for Reflection? edited by Tim May and Beth Perry.
  
• The Limits of Globalization: Cases and Arguments (editor and contributor). London:
  Routledge, 1997