Background
Keating was born in north-east England of Scottish and Irish parents.
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Keating was born in north-east England of Scottish and Irish parents.
Keating holds a Bachelor from the University of Oxford and a Doctor of Philosophy from Glasgow College of Technology.
He is Professor of Scottish Politics at the University of Aberdeen. He is the Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Centre on Constitutional Change. He holds British, Irish and Canadian citizenships.
Keating was previously Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and between 1979 and 1988 taught at the University of Strathclyde.
He has been visiting professor in the United States of America, Spain, France, Australia and England. From 2000 until 2010 he was on secondment from Aberdeen as Professor of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence, where he was head of the department between 2004 and 2007.
He is author of eighteen books and editor of sixteen, as well as numerous academic articles and chapters. In 2005 Keating was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
His publications include Nations against the State: The New Politics of Nationalism in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland (Macmillan, 1996), Plurinational Democracy: Stateless Nations in a Post-Sovereignty Era (Oxford University Press, 2001) and The Government of Scotland: Public Policy Making after Devolution (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), The Independence of Scotland (Oxford University Press, 2009), Rescaling the European State (Oxford University Press, 2013) and (edited with Donatella della Porta) Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
He is a fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences and Member of the European Academy.