On post-Head of Department sabbatical research leave.

 

My research covers three main areas: comparative political communication (the Internet's impact on political engagement and mobilisation); comparative governance (e-government, e-democracy) and comparative and international public policy (Internet governance and regulation).

 

I was Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway (for the standard three year term) from July 2006 to July 2009. I was the founding Director of the New Political Communication Unit in April 2007 and was the organiser of its recent international conference Politics: Web 2.0. In March 2009, Dr Ben O'Loughlin moved from being the Unit's Associate Director to join me as its Co-Director.

 

My latest book is the Handbook of Internet Politics, co-edited with Philip N. Howard (Routledge, 512pp). The book before that was Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies (Oxford University Press, 400pp), which won the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technologies Section Outstanding Book Award, 2007.

 

I am the series editor for Oxford Studies in Digital Politics - a new Oxford University Press USA book series, and a member of the NSF-funded International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policymaking. I was a founding Associate Editor of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics (JITP) from 2006-2009, and now serve as an ordinary member of its Senior Editorial Board. I have recently completed editing a double special issue of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics entitled "Politics: Web 2.0", published in August 2009.

 

I add to my tumblelog at http://www.andrewchadwick.com.