Em P Richard Gillespie BA Hons First Class, PhD
meritusProfessor Politics
- Work email Richard.Gillespie@liverpool.ac.uk
Research
The Dynamics of Nationalist Evolution in Contemporary Spain
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK, this project examined the evolution of pro-sovereignty parties in Catalonia and the Basque Country and had a wider European comparative dimension that has since led to a further project on secessionist movements in Europe, in collaboration with Niklas Bremberg. Project website
The Alternative Left in Barcelona
A project looking at radical municipalist politics in Barcelona since the election of Ada Colau and Barcelona en Comú in 2015, set both both in the specific context of city politics and in the wider frame of Catalan politics.
Research Grants
The EU and the promotion of democracy: the case of North Africa.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
October 2000 - April 2002
The Union for the Mediterranean: Significance for EU Mediterranean Policy
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
April 2009 - April 2011
The Dynamics of Nationalist Evolution in Contemporary Spain
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2012 - November 2015
The Spanish-Moroccan Security Relationship and the Euro-Mediterranean Context.
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2003 - September 2005