John Loughlin, FAcSS, FLSW (born 1948) is a British-based academic and educator from Northern Ireland, and a noted specialist in European territorial politics.
Loughlin attended St Finian's Primary School followed by St. Malachy's College, Belfast. [1] He then spent several years as a Cistercian monk at Portglenone Abbey where he carried out the usual studies for the priesthood in philosophy, theology and biblical studies. [2]
From 1978-1982 he attended the Ulster Polytechnic from which he graduated with BA (Hons) in History and Politics. He proceeded to the European University Institute in Florence, Italy from which he was awarded a doctorate (Doctor of Political and Social Sciences) in 1987 for a thesis entitled Regionalism and ethnic nationalism in France: a case study of Corsica. [3]
He returned to the Ulster University in 1985 where he remained for six years before moving to the Erasmus University of Rotterdam for four years. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of European Politics at the University of Cardiff. [4] He was a Fellow of St Edmund's College where he directed the Von Hügel Institute until his retirement in September 2015. He was also a Senior Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies of the University of Cambridge. [5]
During his career he held a number of honorary positions at various institutions. These included:
He is the author of the authoritative Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe, [6] and numerous other books and conference proceedings, published in several languages.
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Colin H. Williams FLSW is a senior research associate at the VHI, l St Edmund's College, the University of Cambridge, UK. He was formerly a research professor in sociolinguistics, and later an honorary professor in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University.
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