David Farrell#
| Membership Number: | 7054 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://people.ucd.ie/david.farrell |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0528-4335 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 'Chair of Politics' (Full Professor of Political Science), University College Dublin
- 2000 - 2009 Jean Monnet (Full) Professor in European Politics, University of Manchester, UK
- 1997 - 2000 Senior Jean Monnet lecturer, University of Manchester
- 1991 - 1997 Jean Monnet lecturer, University of Manchester
- 1989 - 1990 Lecturer, University of Wales, Cardiff
- 1988 - 1989 Lecturer, University of Manchester
- 1987 - 1988 Lecturer, University College Dublin
- 1986 - 1987 Part-time lecturer, Dublin Institute of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Representation and electoral systems
- Party politics
- Comparative politics
- Democratic innovations
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Irish Research Council 'Researcher of the Year - Impact Award' for making 'a highly significant contribution in the field beyond academia'
- 2019 Brown Medal awarded by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, for 'the best work being done to advance democracy in the US and internationally’
- 2013 Elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy
- 2012 Political Studies Association of Ireland Book of the Year Award (for Political Parties and Democratic Linkage)
- 2012 The GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best Comparative Studies of Electoral Systems (CSES) Scholarship (for Political Parties and Democratic Linkage)
