Prof Charles Jeffery

Career: lectr: N Staffs Poly 1988-89, Univ of Leicester 1989-94; Inst for German Studies Univ of Birmingham: sr res fell 1994, reader 1996-99, prof of German politics 1999-2004; Univ of Edinburgh: prof of politics and co-dir Inst of Governance 2004-, head Sch of Social and Political Science 2009-; ESRC: dir Res Prog on Devolution and Constitutional Change 2000-06, memb Cncl and chm Strategic Res Bd 2005-; advsr EU Ctee of the Regions 2002-05, advsr Ctee on Standards in Public Life 2002-07, specialist advsr House of Commons Select Ctee on the ODPM 2004-05, memb Ind Expert Gp on Finance Advising Cmmn on Scottish Devolution 2008-09; AcSS 2004, FRSE 2007

Books and Publications: German Federalism Today (co-ed, 1991), Federalism, Unification and European Integration (co-ed, 1993), Social Democracy in the Austrian Provinces, 1918-1934: Beyond Red Vienna (1995), The Regional Dimension of the European Union: Towards a 'Third' Level in Europe? (1997), Germany Today: A Student's Dictionary (co-ed, 1997), Recasting German Federalism: The Legacies of Unification (ed, 1998), Germany's European Diplomacy: Shaping the Regional Milieu (co-author, 2000), Verfassungspolitik und Verfassungswandel: Deutschland und Grossbritannien im Vergleich (co-ed, 2001), Devolution and Electoral Politics (co-ed, 2006), The Scottish Parliament 1999-2009: The First Decade (co-ed, 2009), Rethinking Germany and Europe: Democracy and Diplomacy in a Semi-Sovereign State (co-ed, 2010)