Richard Rose (political scientist)
Richard Rose is a political scientist who is currently Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy and Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He studied as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University and completed his PhD at the University of Oxford. He has conducted research on a wide range of topics, including the Northern Ireland conflict, EU enlargement, democratisation, elections and voting. He was formerly Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde, a position he held since 1966. Rose is the holder of Lifetime Achievement Award of the Political Studies Association, which he was awarded in 2000.