Nasar Meer is Professor of Social & Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow (since 2023-) and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh (2023-2026), where he was previously Professor of Sociology and Director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh (2017-2023). Prior to this he was Professor of Comparative Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde (2013-2017).
He was Chair of the Academic Committee of The Stuart Hall Foundation (2023-2026), and was a Member of the Anti-Racism Interim Governance Group (AIGG) (2022-2023) established by Ministerial Appointment 2022, a Commissioner on the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (2020-2021) Post-COVID-19 Futures Inquiry. He also served as a Member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 and Ethnicity Expert Reference Group and the British Council's Outreach Program, and was formerly elected co-Chair of Young Academy of Scotland (YAS). He previously served on the Appointments Committee for the Royal Society UK Young Academy, and was an elected Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and the Social Policy Association (SPA).
He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
