David Boucher (political scientist)
Welsh political theorist and academic
David Ewart George Boucher (born 15 October 1951, Ebbw Vale, Wales) is a Welsh political theorist and philosopher of international relations.
Boucher is a professor at Cardiff University and a distinguished visiting professor at University of Johannesburg. He was vice-president (arts, humanities and social sciences) of The Learned Society of Wales from 2017 to 2020, and is chairman of the trustees of the Collingwood Society.
Boucher is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Learned Society of Wales.
Biography
Boucher was born in Ebbw Vale, Wales, in 1951. He studied politics at Swansea University, the London School of Economics and Liverpool University before appointment to a tutorial fellowship at Cardiff University in 1980. He then worked at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and The Australian National University in Canberra, before returning to the United Kingdom to take up a senior lectureship at Swansea University in 1991.
In 2000, Boucher became a professorial fellow at Cardiff University, and the university's first dean of the Graduate School in Humanities. He was head of the School of European Studies; acting head of the Centre for Continuing Adult Education; and deputy pro-vice chancellor for staffing and diversity.
Boucher has been chairman of the trustees of the R. G. Collingwood Society since 1993, and is the executive editor of its journal British Idealism and Collingwood Studies.
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