Roger Awan-Scully, FAcSS, FLSW, FRSS has authored numerous books including: Becoming Europeans? Attitudes, Behaviour, and Socialization in the European Parliament, and co-authored Representing Europe’s Citizens? Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation in Europe, and Wales Says Yes: Devolution and the 2011 Welsh Referendum. 

Roger studied at the University of Lancaster and the University of Durham, and earned a PhD from Ohio State University. He was Lecturer in European politics at Brunel University from 1997 to 1999, and joined Aberystwyth University in January 2000. At Aberystwyth, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer (2004) and Reader (2006), before becoming Professor of Political Science in 2007.

Roger was Head of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University from 2018-20, and Chair of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom from 2020-23. He was appointed inaugural Director of the new Academy of Geography, Sociology and International Studies in July 2024.

Roger was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2010, and as Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW) in 2011. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He was awarded the Political Studies Association’s award for Political Studies Communicator of the Year 2017.