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Section: Politics and International Relations
Pontus Odmalm
- Name
- Dr Pontus Odmalm
- Title
- Lecturer; Director of UG Teaching (please use dugt@ed.ac.uk for UG teaching related issues)
- Organisation
- Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- 3.20 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131 650 3926
- Pontus.Odmalm@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Comparative European Politics,Politics of immigration,Citizenship,Political parties
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/politics/odmalm_pontus
Office Hours:
Monday 14:00-16:00
Qualifications
- MA (Lund University, Sweden)
- D.Phil (University of Sussex)
Previous Posts
Pontus Odmalm is Lecturer in Politics. Prior to joining Edinburgh in 2006, he held a lectureship position at the University of Sussex.
Research Interests
His research focuses on the social and political impact of migration using a comparative European perspective. Particular research interests include citizenship (national and European), political mobilisation and party competition.
His ESRC-funded project 'Old Politics, New issues and Institutional Constraints: How to Explain Parties' Positions on EU Membership and Immigration' (2009-11) finished in June and he's currently working on a monograph based on the project's findings (forthcoming Palgrave, 2013).
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Articles
'Party competition and positions on immigration: strategic advantages and spatial locations', forthcoming Comparative European Politics
'Political parties and 'the immigration issue': issue ownership in Swedish parliamentary elections 1991-2010', West European Politics, 34:5, 2011.
'Turkish organisations in Europe: how national contexts provide different avenues for participation', Turkish Studies 10:2, 2009.
'Going different ways? Right-wing parties and the immigrant issue in Denmark and Sweden', Journal of European Public Policy 15:3, 2008 (with Christoffer Green-Pedersen).
‘One size fits all? European citizenship, national citizenship policies and integration requirements’, Representation 43:1, 2007.
'Migration and Society' in Marshall, B. (ed.) The Politics of Migration (Routledge, 2006).
'Getting ethnic questions on the agenda: party formation as a strategy for social movements' Social Movement Studies 5:1, 2006, (with Charles Lees).
Books
The Party Politics of Immigration and the EU (Palgrave, forthcoming, 2013/14)
Migration Policies and Political Participation: Inclusion or Intrusion in Western Europe? (Palgrave, 2005)
Current Teaching and Research
Pontus is responsible for the following undergraduate course:
Sem 1: Comparative Politics
Sem 2: The Politics of Migration (MSc)
Pontus has membership in the following Politics Research Groups: Migration and Citizenship.
PhD Supervision
He is interested in supervising candidates in the field of comparative politics and/or projects that focus on the following areas: politics of migration; citizenship; and party competition.
Topics interested in supervising
Comparative politics and/or projects that focus on the following areas: politics of migration; citizenship; and party competition.
If you are interested in being supervised by Pontus Odmalm, please see the links below for more information:
PhD in Politics
This page was published on 21 October 2011