Career
He was chair (2002–2005) and president (2005–2008) of the Political Studies Association (PSA). Wyn Grant is a graduate of the universities of Leicester, Strathclyde and Exeter. He was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011.
Grant has written extensively on pressure groups and conceived the distinction between insider and outsider pressure groups in Pressure Groups, Politics and Democracy in Britain (1989).
He has also been involved in work on the European Union on the Common Agricultural Policy. He is a noted Charlton Athletic fan who runs the popular Addicks Diary blog.
