Derek Stanford Hutcheson
Professor/Pro dean

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Derek Hutcheson is Pro Dean of Malmö University's Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), and was from 2019-23 Vice Dean for Doctoral Education. He is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Global Political Studies (GPS); previous head of the European Studies programme (2014-21); and active in the Faculty's Russia and the Caucasus (RUCARR) research platform.

He has researched extensively on Russian and post-Soviet politics, as well as the comparative study of electoral politics, transnational citizenship and electoral rights across Europe and elsewhere; and on local democracy in Scandinavia and Russia. Prior to working in Sweden, he was head of European Studies at University College Dublin (2006-2013) and an ESRC and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow University (2002-05). He has also had a long association with the Global Citizenship Observatory (formerly EUDO-Citizenship) at the European University Institute in Florence, and has been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Recent research projects include the ICLD-funded project on 'Legitimacy, urban planning and sustainability in Russia and Sweden' (LUPSRUSS, 2017-19, 2020-21: http://wpmu.mah.se/rucarr/research/lupsruss/), and the EU-funded project, 'Fostering Awareness, Inclusion and Recognition of EU mobile citizens’ Political Rights' (FAIREU) (2017-19) [https://faireu.ecas.org/]

He is fluent in English, Russian, German, Swedish and Danish.