Professor Stephen George
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
Emeritus Professor
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Stephen George did his BA and MPhil in the Department of Politics at the University of Leicester. His first academic job was as a Research Assistant in European Studies at the then Huddersfield Polytechnic (now the University of Huddersfield).
He was appointed as a Lecturer at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ in 1973, subsequently being promoted to Senior Lecturer then Reader. In 1994 he was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Union, which he held concurrently with his Readership at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ.
He was Chair of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies between 1997 and 2000. In 1999 was promoted to a Personal Chair in the Department. He became Emeritus Professor in 2003.