About
Nasar Meer is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences and Director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh.
He is Co-Investigator of The Impacts of the Pandemic on Ethnic and Racialized Groups in the UK (UKRI, 2021-2023) and Principal Investigator of the Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe's Refugees (GLIMER) (JPI ERA Net / Horizon-2020).
He was a Commissioner on the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (2020-2021) Post-COVID-19 Futures Inquiry, and a Member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 and Ethnicity Expert Reference Group, and the British Council's Outreach Program.
He is an elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), a former elected co-Chair of Young Academy of Scotland (YAS), a Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and the Social Policy Association (SPA).
He is currently co-Editor in Chief of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power; co-Editor of 21st Century Standpoints (BSA and Policy Press) and co-Editor of Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (PPICS).
He is Co-Investigator of The Impacts of the Pandemic on Ethnic and Racialized Groups in the UK (UKRI, 2021-2023) and Principal Investigator of the Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe's Refugees (GLIMER) (JPI ERA Net / Horizon-2020).
He was a Commissioner on the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s (2020-2021) Post-COVID-19 Futures Inquiry, and a Member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 and Ethnicity Expert Reference Group, and the British Council's Outreach Program.
He is an elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), a former elected co-Chair of Young Academy of Scotland (YAS), a Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and the Social Policy Association (SPA).
He is currently co-Editor in Chief of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power; co-Editor of 21st Century Standpoints (BSA and Policy Press) and co-Editor of Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (PPICS).
Fellowships and Awards
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), 2018
- Awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh Thomas Reid Medal, 2016
- Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), 2017
- Minda de Gunzburg Fellowship, Harvard University, 2012-2013
- Resident Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 2012-2013
