Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland

Parentage: son of the late Professor E. H. Bellamy and of Mrs J. Bellamy (née Roberts)

Family: married Louise Dominian; one daughter, Amy Dominian

Education: BA, History, Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1979; PhD, History, University of Cambridge 1983

Career: Richard Bellamy joined University College London as Professor of Political Science in October 2005. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and the European University Institute (EUI) at Florence. After three years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford he went on to lectureships at Cambridge and Edinburgh and then to Chairs at the Universities of East Anglia, Reading and Essex. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Nuffield College, Oxford, the EUI in Florence and the Australian National University. He was Academic Director of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) from 2002 until 2006 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2002. Professor Bellamy's main research interests are in European Social and Political Theory post-1750, Contemporary Analytical Legal and Political Philosophy, and the application of normative theory to the understanding of citizenship, democracy and constitutionalism in modern societies. He has been a leading figure in the normative study of the European Union and directed a number of prominent ESRC and European Commission research projects in this area. Richard Bellamy is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Government and Opposition, Modern Italy, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, European Political Science, Diacritica: Philosophy, Modern Intellectual History and the electronic journal ‘Queen’s Papers on Europeanisation’. He is an associate editor of the European Journal of Political Theory and co-editor of the journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (see url below). He has appeared on TV and radio in the UK and abroad, and has written for major newspapers and reviews such as The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.

Honours and awards: Trinity Hall College Scholarship 1976, Charles Crawley Prizeman 1979, Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship, Italy 1982–83

Publications include: monographs: Modern Italian Social Theory – Ideology and Politics from Pareto to the Present 1987, Liberalism and Modern Society –An Historical Argument 1992, Gramsci and the Italian State (with Darrow Schecter) 1993, Liberalism and Pluralism – Towards a Politics of Compromise 1999, Rethinking Liberalism 2000, Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionalisty of Democracy 2007; 20 edited or co-edited books, including: Constitutionalism in Transformation: European and Theoretical Perspectives (co-editor) 1996, The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Political Thought (co-editor) 2003, Making European Citizens: Civic Inclusion in a Transnational Context (co-editor) 2006; more than 100 book chapters and journal articles

Contact details: Address: Department of Political Science, School of Public Policy, University College London, The Rubin Building, 29/30 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9QU, England; Tel: +44 (0)20 7679-4980; Tel: +44 (0)7763 174423 (mobile); Fax: +44 (0)20 7679-4969; Email: r.bellamy@ucl.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/people/richard-bellamy.php/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13698230.asp/ .