Section: Staff Profiles

Charles Raab

Name
Professor Charles Raab
Title
Professor Emeritus
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
2.08 7 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh UK
Telephone
+44 (0)131 650 4243
E-Mail
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/raab_charles

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Qualifications

  • BA (Columbia)
  • MA (Yale)

Previous Posts

Charles D. Raab is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Fellow. He was Professor of Government (1999-2007) and served as a member of staff since 1964. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Visiting Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, and has been appointed a Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Delmenhorst, Germany. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Research Interests

His main general research interests are in public policy, governance and regulation, and more specifically in information policy (privacy protection and public access to information), privacy and surveillance, and information technology in democratic politics, government and commerce. His research has been funded by the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the National Science Foundation (USA), the European Commission, the Nuffield Foundation and the Scottish Office, and he has engaged in advisory and consultancy work for UK and Scottish government departments, the Office of the Information Commissioner, the European Commission, the New Zealand Law Commission, Liberty, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Resarch (NWO). He was the Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution for their inquiry, Surveillance: Citizens and the State, 2nd Report, Session 2008-09, HL 18. He is a member of the editorial or advisory boards of nine journals in the fields of information policy and public policy, and on the advisory boards of several research projects. He is a member of the Surveillance Studies Network, and participates in the Canadian-funded project on ‘The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting’ and in the European Union’s COST Action on ‘Living in Surveillance Societies’ (LiSS).  

He participates in the Research Groups on Public Policy and on Migration and Citizenship.

Recent Publications

(with C Bennett) The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective (Ashgate, 2003; 2nd edition MIT Press, 2006); (with M Arnott, eds.), The Governance of Schooling: Comparative Studies of Devolved Management (Routledge/Falmer, 2000); (with M Anderson et al.), Policing the European Union (Clarendon Press, 1996); (with A McPherson), Governing Education: A Sociology of Policy Since 1945 (Edinburgh U.P., 1988) and many contributions to academic journals and edited volumes. He co-authored the Surveillance Studies Network's Report on the Surveillance Society (2006), commissioned by the Office of the Information Commissioner.

Current Research

He is engaged in further writing for publication in the fields of privacy theory and regulatory practice, surveillance, personal identity, and related topics.

PhD Supervision

Charles Raab is able to offer supervision on the above topics and on related ones in the broader field of public policy and governance.

This page was published on 9 March 2009


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