MJ Bull

Martin Bull is Professor of Politics and Associate Dean for Research & Innovation at the University of Salford, and former Director of the European Consortium for Political Research (which awarded him the "Martin Bull Prize for Exceptional Contribution to the ECPR"). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. At Salford, his former posts include: Deputy Chair of Senate; Chair of Senate's Academic Audit and Governance Committee; Member of the University Council and the Council's Nominations & Governance Committee; Chair of the University's Discipline Committee; Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts, Media & Social Sciences; Founding Head of the School of English, Sociology, Politics & Contemporary History; and Head of the Department of Politics & Contemporary History. He was educated at the University of Nottingham, Nuffield College, Oxford and the European University Institute, Florence (where he obtained his doctorate in 1987). Prior to his appointment at Salford he held temporary lecturing positions in politics at the University of Hull, St. Anne's College and Balliol College, Oxford. He has held visiting fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence and the Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin, and visiting lectureships at the London School of Economics, the University of Nottingham, Wayne State University, Detroit and the University of Clermont-Ferrand II. He was a Leverhulme Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence in 2003-04. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Italian Political Science Review (journal of the Italian Political Science Association) and Executive Editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Formerly, he was Founding Editor-in-Chief of Social Sciences, Editor of Modern Italy, Editor of European Political Science and Associate Editor of Parliamentary Affairs. He is on the Editorial Boards of Modern Italy, South European Politics & Society. He is an Italian and comparative politics specialist, with interest in political corruption, institutional reform, Europeanization and political parties.