Professor David Boucher's Profile

Professor David Boucher - BA, MSc, PhD, FRHistS

Overview

Position: Head of School, Chair of Political Philosophy and International Relations Email: BoucherDE@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 2087 4862
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
Extension: 74862
Location: Room 1.46, 65-68 Park Place

Research interests include Modern Political Theory, Theory of International Relations, Human Rights, Collingwood and British Idealism, Popular Culture.

Selected Publications

Texts in Context: Revisionist Methods for Studying the History of Ideas (Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1985), ix + 280. Martinus Nijhoff, Philosophy Library, vol. 12. ISBN 90-247-3121-6

The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989), xi + 300. ISBN 0-521-36384-5. Republished in paperback CUP November, 2003. ISBN: 0521892686

A Radical Hegelian: The Political Thought of Henry Jones (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994: Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1993), xi + 267 (co-authored with Andrew Vincent). ISBN 0-7063-1207-1 (University of Wales Press), and ISBN 0-312-12079-6 (St. Martin's).

Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998),xii + 443. ISBN 0-19-878054-0

Steel, Skill and Survival: A Social History of Rugby in Ebbw Vale and the Valleys (Llandybie, Dinefwr Press, 2000), x + 160 ISBN 0-9539293-0-2 (hb), and 0-9539293-1-0 (pb)

British Idealism and Political Theory (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2000) (with Andrew Vincent) , vii +248 ISBN 07486 14281

Dylan and Cohen: Poets of Rock and Roll (New York, Continuum, 2004), x + 256 ISBN: 0826459811 (pb); ISBN: 0826459803 (hb). Also published in Serbian 2009

The Limits of Ethics in International Relations: Natural Law, Natural Rights and Human Rights in Transition (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009), xv + 423 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-920352-9

Selected Projects

David Boucher (Cardiff) Marnie Hughes Warrington and Ian Tregenza (Macquarie University), and Stein Helgeby (Australian Tax Office)
2007- 2011 'The Empire of Idealism? Civilisation and Australian New Idealism.
The project traces the movement of British 'New Idealist' philosophy to Australia in the mid nineteen century, its transformation in Australian New Idealism, and return to Britain.
Australian Research Council (grant DP0772276) A$302,000.

David Boucher (Cardiff), Andrew Vincent (Sheffield)
British Idealism: A Guide for the Perplexed
The project introduces readers to the complex vocabulary of Philosophical Idealism.
To be published by Continuum Press, 2008.

David Boucher (Cardiff), Teresa Smith (Oxford)
Revised edition of R. G. Collingwood, An Autobiography
The aim is to publish additional previously unpublished material, including ‘A Log of a Journey to the East Indies’, to shed light on the life and work of this English philosophy, and also to include critical essays exploring some of his controversial ideas.
To be published by Oxford University Press, 2009.

Research Units and Centres

Political Theory

Collingwood and British Idealism Centre

Publications

Books

Texts in Context: Revisionist Methods for Studying the History of Ideas (Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff, 1985), ix + 280. Martinus Nijhoff, Philosophy Library, vol. 12. ISBN 90-247-3121-6

The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989), xi + 300. ISBN 0-521-36384-5. Republished in paperback CUP November, 2003. ISBN: 0521892686

A Radical Hegelian: The Political Thought of Henry Jones (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1994: Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1993), xi + 267 (co-authored with Andrew Vincent). ISBN 0-7063-1207-1(University of Wales Press), and ISBN 0-312-12079-6 (St. Martin's)

Political Theories of International Relations: From Thucydides to the Present
(Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998),xii + 443. ISBN 0-19-878054-0

Steel, Skill and Survival: A Social History of Rugby in Ebbw Vale and the Valleys (Llandybie, Dinefwr Press, 2000), x + 160 ISBN 0-9539293-0-2 (hb), and 0-9539293-1-0 (pb)

British Idealism and Political Theory (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2000) (with Andrew Vincent) , vii +248 ISBN 07486 14281 Research funded by AHRB £1,000 and Leverhulme £4,100. January, 2000 £6,700 (with Andrew Vincent), British Idealism and modern politics. AHRB

Dylan and Cohen: Poets of Rock and Roll (New York, Continuum, 2004), x + 256 ISBN: 0826459811 (pb); ISBN: 0826459803 (hb) Research funded by AHRB small grant £4,200. Translated into Japanese and Serbian translation (Belgrade, CLIO, 2008 Dilan i Koen ISBN 978-86-7102-312-2).

The Limits of Ethics in International Relations: Natural Law, Natural Rights and Human Rights in Transition (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2009). Research funded by £18,500 Leverhulme Research Fellowship. ISBN-13: 978-0199203529

Edited Books

Essays in Political Philosophy, by R. G. Collingwood. (Oxford University Press, 1989) [Includes selections from the unpublished manuscripts, the first to appear since Malcolm Knox edited The Idea of History] ISBN 0-19-824823-7.

The New Leviathan, revised edition, by R. G. Collingwood. (Oxford University Press, 1992). [Includes for the first time a complete series of lectures from the unpublished manuscripts]. ISBN 0-19-823981-5

The Social Contract From Hobbes to Rawls, eds. David Boucher and Paul Kelly (London, Routledge, 1994). ISBN 0-415-10845-4 and ISBN 0-415-10846-2 (pbk). Translated in Japanese, and published by Nakanishiya 1998.

Philosophy, Politics and Civilization, eds., D. Boucher, T. Modood and J. Connelly (Cardiff, Wales University Press, 1995) ISBN 0-7083-1308-6

The British Idealists, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge, CUP, 1997). ISBN 0-521-45951. Chinese edition, 2003

Social Justice: From Hume to Walzer eds. David Boucher and Paul Kelly (London, Routledge, 1998). ISBN 0-415-14997-5 (Hb) 0-415-14998-3 (Pb) Translated into Japanese and published by Tokyo, Nakanishiya, 2002.

Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the Present eds. David Boucher and Paul Kelly (Oxford, Oxford University Press, University Press, 2003) ISBN 0-19-878194-6. Translated in Polish. Translated into Arabic and to be published by Incultural Dialogue of Beirut.

New Expanded edition, 2009. Includes six new introductions to sections, and revised introduction and contributions. ISBN-13: 978-0199215522

The Scottish Idealists (Exeter, Imprint Academic, 2004). In the series Scottish Philosophy. General editor, Regius Professor Gordon Graham. ISBN 0 907845 72X

The Political Art of Bob Dylan, edited with Gary Browning (London, Palgrave, 2004) ISBN 1 4039 1682 9

Second revised and expanded edition, Imprint Academic, Exeter, February, 2009. Includes new introduction and Bob Dylan Timeline. ISBN-13: 9781845401207

R. G. Collingwood, The Philosophy of Enchantment, edited with Wendy James and Philip Smallwood (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2005). ISBN 0 19 926253 5

R. G. Collingwood, An Autobiography, new edition with additional manuscript material, and scholarly essays, edited with Teresa Smith (forthcoming, Clarendon Press, 2009)

Contributions

Introduction, and Editorial comments, in R. G. Collingwood, Essays in Political Philosophy, edited by David Boucher (Oxford University Press, 1989) pp. 1-52; pp. 55-7, 163-5 and 229.

Introduction, and annotation in The New Leviathan, revised edition, by R. G. Collingwood. Edited by David Boucher (Oxford University Press, 1992). pp. xi-lv.

'Originality and Ambiguity as Criteria of Greatness' in Objectivity, Method and Point of View, ed. L. Rubinoff and W. J. van der Dussen (Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1991), 22-46.

'Conversation and Political Thought' in Studies in Historical Change, edited by Ralph Cohen (Charlottesville, University of Virgina Press, 1992). Essay first Published in New Literary History.

'Reconciling Ethics and Interests in the Person of the State' in Ethics and Australian Foreign Policy, ed. Paul Keale (Sydney, Collier-Macmillan, 1992), 42-61.

'The Social Contract and its Critics' (with Paul Kelly) in The Social Contract From Hobbes to Rawls eds. David Boucher and Paul Kelly (London, Routledge, 1994), 1-34. [50%]

'Editor's Introduction' to Collingwood Studies, vol. I (1994) Life and Thought, ed. David Boucher

'The Place of Education in Civilization', in Philosophy, Politics and Civilization eds., D. Boucher, J. Connelly and T. Modood (Cardiff, Wales University Press, 1995), 269-299.

'The Life and legacy of R. G. Collingwood', in Philosophy, Politics and Civilization. eds., D. Boucher, James Connelly, and Tariq Modood (Cardiff, Wales University Press, 1995), 1-31.

'Introduction' in Philosophy, Civilization and the Forms of Experience, eds. D. Boucher, James Connelly, and T. Modood (Cardiff, Wales University Press, 1995), iii-viii. [33%].

‘Introduction’, ‘Idealist Biographies’ and annotation in The British Idealists, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge, CUP, 1997), viii-xlvi

‘Political Theory, International Theory and the Political Theory of International Relationsí in Contemporary Political Theory ed. Andrew Vincent (Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Introduction (with Paul Kelly), in Social Justice, eds. David Boucher and Paul Kelly (London, Routledge, 1998), 1-16 (50%).

‘British Idealism and the Just Society’ in Social Justice From Hume to Walzer, eds. David Boucher and Paul Kelly (London, Routledge, 1998), 80-101.

‘Hegel and Marx on International Relations’ in The Hegel Marx Connection, ed. Tony Burns and Ian Fraser (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000), 217-39

‘L’idealime et la culture philosophique britannique’ (with Andrew Vincent) in Norbert Waszek, ed. Hegel: droit, histoire, société (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2001), 239-269. ISBN 2 13 0514871

‘International Justice’ in Richard Bellamy and Andrew Mason, eds., Political Concepts (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003). ISBN0-7190-5909-7

‘Burke’ in Political Thinkers eds. David Boucher and Paul Kelly (Oxford, University Press, 2003). ISBN 0-19-878194-6

‘Michael Oakeshott’ in Political Thinkers eds. David Boucher and Paul Kelly (Oxford, University Press, 2003). ISBN 0-19-878194-6

‘Rousseau ’ in Western Political Thinkers eds. David Boucher and Paul Kelly (Oxford, University Press, 2003). ISBN 0-19-878194-6

(With Paul Kelly) ‘Introduction’ to Political Thinkers eds. David Boucher and Paul Kelly (Oxford, University Press, 2002). ISBN 0-19-878194-6

'Introduction' to the Romanian translation of R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History . Translated by Florin Labont and D. Anton (Timisara, Romania, Humanitas, in press).

‘R. G. Collingwood’ in Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Philip B. Dematteis (Columbia, Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002), 70-9. ISBN 0-7876-6006-X

‘The Transition from Natural Rights to Human Rights’ in Identity and Nationality, ed. Bruce Haddock and Peter Sutch (London, Routledge, 2003), 196-213. 0-415-31514-X

‘The Scottish Idealists’ and seven biographical sketches in The Scottish Idealists ed. David Boucher (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2004), 1-25, 45-47, 75-77, 103-6, 141-3, 159-161, 177-9. ISBN 0-907845-72X

‘Introduction’ (with Gary Browning) in The Political Art of Bob Dylan, ed. David Boucher and Gary Browning (London: Palgrave, 2004), 1-11. ISBN 1-4039-1682-9

‘Images and Distorted Facts: Politics, Poetry and Protest in the songs of Bob Dylan’ in The Political Art of Bob Dylan, ed. David Boucher and Gary Browning (London: Palgrave, 2004), 134-169. ISBN 1-4039-1682-9

"Collingwood, un hombre del Renacimiento", R. G. Collingwood: Ensayos sobre Historia, Metafísica y Política, con algunos comentarios. Edited by Enrique Bocardo Crespo & Pablo Badillo O'Farrell.(Seville, Fundación el Monte, 2005), 15-26. ISBN 844721013-8

‘La significación de los Principios de la Historia de R. G. Collingwood,’ in R. G. Collingwood: Ensayos sobre Historia, Metafísica y Política, con algunos comentarios. Edited by Enrique Bocardo Crespo & Pablo Badillo O'Farrell.(Seville, Fundación el Monte, 2005), 143-66. ISBN 844721013-8

‘(with Wendy James and Philip Smallwood) ‘Editors’ Foreword and Note’, R. G. Collingwood, The Philosophy of Enchantment, ed. David Boucher, Wendy James and Philip Smallwood (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005), xiii-xxi. ISBN 0-19-926253-5

‘In Defence of Collingwood’ in R. G. Collingwood, The Philosophy of Enchantment, ed. David Boucher, Wendy James and Philip Smallwood (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005), xcii-cxix. ISBN 0-19-926253-5

‘Prefazione’, Picture Thinking: Estetica e Filosofia Religione nei primi scritti di Robin Collingwood, Massimo Iiritano (Rubbetino, Rubbetino Editore Srl, 2006), 5-20. ISBN 88-498-1248-5

‘Thin Universalism and Distributive Justice’ in Principles and Political Order: the challenge of diversity, edited by, Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch (London, Routledge, 2006), 176-191 ISBN 0-415-38462-1

‘Uniting what Right Permits with What Interest Prescribes: Rawls’s Law of Peoples in Context’ in Rawls’s Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia? Edited by Rex Martin and David Reidy (Oxford, Blackwell, 2006), 19-37. ISBN 1-4051-3531-X

‘Property and Propriety in International Relations: the case of Locke’ in Classical Theory in International Relations, edited by Beate Jahn (Cambridge, Cambrisge University Press, 2006), 156-177. ISBN 0-521-68602-4

Journal Editorships

Collingwood Studies vols. I - 6 (1994-1999), (with Bruce Haddock) ISSN 1356-0670. From 2000 renamed Collingwood and British Idealism Studies vols 7 -10 (2000-2005) (ed. With Bruce Haddock and Andrew Vincent). ISSN 1356-0670. From 2005, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies: incorporating Bradley Studies (executive editor), ISSN 1744-9413. Published by Imprint Academic.

Journal Letters, Notes, Dictionary and Encyclopaedia entries

'On Franklin's and Shklar's reviews of Skinner', Political Theory, 8 (1980), 406-408. (U.S.A.)

'Comment on Mulligan, Richards and Graham', Political Studies, XXIX (1981), 453-454. (U.K.)

Conference report on the Collingwood conferences in Canada and Italy. Collingwood Journal, No. 1 (1992), 17-19.

‘Henry Jones’ Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Philosophy, ed. William Mander and Alan P. F. Sell (Bristol, Thoemmes Ptress, 2002), 611-615.

John Watson (1847-1939) , New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), ed., H. C. G. Matthews.

John Cook Wilson (1849-1915), (with H. A. Prichard), New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), ed., H. C. G. Matthews.

John Alexander Stewart (1846-1933), (with John Murray), New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), ed., H. C. G. Matthews.

Henry Jones (1852-1923), (with H. W. J. Hetherington), New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), ed., H. C. G. Matthews (forthcoming).

William Mitchell (1861-1962) in Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophy, ed. William Mander (Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 2004)

W. R. Boyce Gibson (1862-1935) in Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophy, ed. William Mander (Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 2004)

R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) in Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophy, ed. William Mander (Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 2004)

Henry Jones (1852-1922) in Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophy, ed. William Mander (Bristol, Thoemmes Press, 2004)

Collingwood, R. G. Microsoft Encarta Premium Suite DVD (and CD) 2005 edition (the summer of 2004.and subsequent editions). Further information at http://uk.encarta.msn.com/

‘Preface’, The History of Philosophy from Descartes to Hegel by Arthur Ritchie Lord
Edited by Sweet, William , & Harris, Errol E. ISBN10: 0-7734-5589-2 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5589-4 Mellen Press, 2006,

Academic Journal Papers

'New Histories of Political Thought for Old', Political Studies, XXXI (1983), 112-121. (UK)

'The Creation of the Past: British Idealism and Michael Oakeshott's Philosophy of History', History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History, XXIII (1984), 193-214. (U.S.A.)

'The Denial of Perennial Problems: The Negative Side of Quentin Skinner's Theory', Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, 12 (1984), 287-300. (U.S.A.)

'Politics, Language and Paradigms', Polity: The Journal of the North Eastern Political Science Association, XVII (1985), 761-776. (U.S.A.)

'W. H. Greenleaf and the Triadic Conception of the History of Political Thought', Idealistic Studies: An International Philosophical Journal, XVI (1986), 237-252. (U.S.A.)

'Conversation and Political Thought', New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation, 18 (1986), 59-75. (U.S.A.) Winner of the 'Best Special Issue' award from the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals, 1987.

'The Two Lethiathans: R. G. Collingwood and T. Hobbes', Political Studies, XXXV (1987), 443-460. (UK)

'Philosophy, History and Practical Life: the emergence of the history of political thought in England', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 35 (1989), 220-237. (Australia)

'Autonomy and Overlap: the different worlds of Collingwood and Oakeshott', Storia, Antropologia e scienze del Linguaggio, IV (1989), 69-89. (Italy).

'Practical Hegelianism: Henry Jones's lecture tour of Australia', Journal of the History of Ideas, 51 (1990), 423-452. (U.S.A.)1

'International and Inter community relations in the political theory of Hobbes'. Polity. xxiii (1989-90), 207-232. (U.S.A.)

'The Duplicitous Machiavelli’, Machiavelli Studies , 3 (1990), 163-172 (U.S.A.)

'The Character of the History of the Philosophy of International Relations and the Case of Edmund Burke'. Review of International Studies, 17 (1991), 128-48. (U.K.)

'Michael Oakeshott 1901-1990: Politics in a Different Mode', History of Political Thought, 12 (1991), 717-728 (U.K.)

'Evolution and Politics', The Australian Journal of Political Science, 27 (1992), 87-103. (Australia)

'Human Conduct, History and Social Science in the Works of R. G. Collingwood and Michael Oakeshott', New Literary History, 24 (1993), 697-717. (U.S.A.)

'Histories of Political Thought in the Post-Methodological Age' in History of Political Thought , 14 (1993), 302-316. (UK)

'British Idealism, the State and International Relations', Journal of the History of Ideas, 55 (1994), 671-694. (USA)

'British Idealist International Theory', Hegel Society Bulletin, 31 (1995), 73-89. (UK).

‘The Principles of History and the Cosmology conclusion to The Idea of Nature’, Collingwood Studies, II (1995), 150-84. (UK)

‘The Significance of R. G. Collingwood’s Principles of History’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 58 (1997), 309-330. (USA)

‘Montesquieu, Collingwood and the Expansion of the Moral Community’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 2 (2000), 327-351. (UK)

‘The Idealism of Michael Oakeshott’, Collingwood Studies, VIII (2001), 75-100. (UK)

‘British Idealism and the Human Rights Culture’ History of European Ideas, 27 (2001), 61-78 (UK)

‘Resurrecting Pufendorf and Capturing the Westphalian Moment’ Review of International Studies, 27 (2002). (UK)

‘R. G. Collingwood’s Principles of History’ translated into Chinese by Wu Kuang-ming and Tang Ping-wen History Theory and Criticism, 2 (2001), 19-46. (Tiawan)

‘Collingwood and Anthropology as a Philosophical Science’ History of Political Thought, XXIII (2002), 303-325. (UK) ISSN 0143-781X

‘The Late 19th Century Scottish Idealists and the Problem of Philosophy’, Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 2 (2004), 176-193. ISSN 1479-6651

The Rule of Law and the Modern European State: Michael Oakeshott and European Enlargement’. European Journal of Political Theory, 4 (2005), 89-107. ISSN 1474-8851.

‘Oakeshott and the Republican Tradition’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 7 (2005), 81- 96,

David Boucher, James Connelly, Stamatoula Panagakou, William Sweet and Colin Tyler, ‘British Idealism and the Political Philosophy of T. H. Green, Bernard Bosanquet, R. G. Collingwood and Michael Oakeshott’ , British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 7 (2005), 97-125

‘Oakeshott and the History of Political Thought’, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, vol. 13:2 (2007)

Biography

Positions within the School

Acting Head of School 2008-2009; Assistant Head of School Research 2000-2008; Director of the Collingwod and British Idealism Centre; and, Adjunct professor of International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He was the founding Director of the Researcher and Graduate School in Humanities at Cardiff.

Career Profile

David Boucher studied at the University of Wales, Swansea, The London School of Economics and Liverpool University. He was a tutorial fellow at Cardiff, 1980-83, and a lecturer, 1983-4. He was a lecturer/senior lecturer at La Trobe University Melbourne, a research fellow, and senior lecturer at the Australian National University, and professor of politics at University of Wales Swansea, before returning to Cardiff in 2000 as a Professorial Fellow. He is currently professor of political theory, and acting head of school. He is adjunct professor of international relations, University of the Sunshine Coast, and Director of the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre since 1993.

Awards and Prizes

The Edwin Drew Prize in Public Administration. Awarded at University College, Swansea, 1975.
Nuffield Foundation grant to study the unpublished papers of R. G. Collingwood. October, 1984-December, 1984.

La Trobe University, School of Social Sciences Research Grant to Study the Papers of R. G. Collingwood, January-February, 1986. $4000.

La Trobe University, School of Social Sciences Research Grant to Study the Papers of R.G. Collingwood, August 1987. $4000. (Published as The Social and Political Thought of R. G. Collingwood, C.U.P. 1989).

Contributor to Studies in Historical Change New Literary History the winner of the Best Special Issue award from the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals for the year 1987.

La Trobe University, School of Social Sciences Research Grant to Study Unpublished Papers of Sir Henry Jones, July-Dec. 1988. $2000. (Book completed with Andrew Vincent).

Research School of Social Sciences, A.N.U. $5000, 1989 to work on the unpublished papers of R. G. Collingwood (Published as R. G. Collingwood, Essays in Political Philosophy O.U.P. 1989).

Research School of Social Sciences, A. N. U. $2000, 1989 to attend the R. G. Collingwood Centenary Conference, Trent University, Canada, and to work in Toronto Public Library on reports of Henry Jonesí visit to Canada.

The Faculties Research Grants Committee, A.N.U. $4,500 1990 to work on papers relating to Henry Jones, Oxford, Cardiff, and North Wales September 1990 (With Andrew Vincent. Published by University of Wales Press and St Martinís Press, 1993).

December 1992: £1000 performance related payment, University College, Swansea.

July 1993-98: £30,000 awarded by Industrial Plastics Incorporated, Oregon with continuing annual support of £20,000 for the establishment and running of the Collingwood Centre at University of Wales Swansea.

March 1994: £800 awarded by the British Academy for the R. G. Collingwood Conference, 4-6 July, St. Catherineís College, Oxford.

August 1994: £12,000 grant from Industrial Plastics Inc., Oregon to work in Oxford during the Michaelmas and Hilary Terms, 1995-6 on British Idealist Political Philosophy.

March 1997: £1,000 awarded by the British Academy for the R. G. Collingwood Conference, 9-12 July, 1997.

May 1998: Nuffield Foundation. £4,100 to conduct research in Australia, Oxford and London on the extension of the moral community in British Idealist and modern political philosophy.

May 1998: British Academy. £1,100 to study the papers of John Watson in Canada.

September 1999-2002: £6,300 per annum for the Collingwood centre from Teresa Smith, Collingwoodís daughter.

January 2000: £6,700 (with Andrew Vincent), British Idealism and modern politics. AHRB.

Oct-Dec, 2001: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Oxford.

February 2002: £4,200 AHRB for Politics, Poetry and Protest.

March – June 2003: Visiting Professorial Fellow, Department of Politics and the National Centre for the Study of Europe, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

August 2004: Society for the History of Philosophy and Centre Study of Scottish Philosophy Plenary Lecture on Scottish Idealism.

February 2005: Elected Senior Research Fellow of the Centre Study of Scottish Philosophy, Aberdeen University.

Leverhulme Fellowship, 2007: £18,500 to complete Natural Law, Natural Rights and Human Rights in Transition.

Memberships / External Activities

Member of The Political Studies Association of the UK

Referee for Political Studies; History of Political Thought; Polity; Journal of the History of Ideas; Interpretation; Journal of the History of Philosophy, Oxford Review of Education, Contemporary Political Theory and Review of International Studies; Contemporary Political Theory; European Journal of Political Theory; British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Referee for Cambridge University Press, Australia Ltd. and U.K.; Oxford University Press, Great Britain and Australia; Routledge; Palgrave; Penn State University Press; Wales University Press; Blackwells; Martinus Nijhoff, Westview Press; Edinburgh University Press.

Examiner of Ph.D. theses.

External Examiner for Nottingham Trent University 1997-2000; University of the West of England 1997-2001; Queen’s University, Belfast, 2007-; Lancaster University, 2007-date.

Member of the Editorial Board of The Australian Journal of Political Science, 1990-1992. Contemporary Political Theory, 2002-date.

Series Editor: British Idealism Studies: Collingwood, Imprint Academic.

Member of the O.U.P. Committee to oversee the publication of the R. G. Collingwood papers. (With Teresa Collingwood Smith, Professors W. H. Dray, Leon Pompa, W. J. van der Dussen and Rex Martin).

Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Collingwood Society, 1993-date.

Director of Collingwood and British Idealism Centre, Cardiff University, 1993-date.

Teaching Profile

David Boucher has taught at the undergraduate level: Modern Political Theory, Modern Ideologies, World Politics (Open University), History of Political Thought, Decision Making in Britain (Open University), The European Union, Political Theories of International Relations, and British Politics. At the postgraduate level he has taught, Approaches to Political Theory, Michael Oakeshott and R. G. Collingwood, The Human Rights Culture and its Discontents, The Idea of Europe, Research Skills.