Rebecca Tapscott
Member since 2024
I am thrilled to work with UKYA members to bridge academia and policy to make real-world change on today's most pressing issues.
Bio
Rebecca Tapscott is a political scientist working at the University of Glasgow. Her research centres on explaining authoritarianism in low-capacity states; as well as how to study these dynamics ethically, with a focus on the global South. Before joining Glasgow, Rebecca worked at the University of York, and held a post-doc at the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy. She holds a PhD from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and is a recipient of the Fletcher School’s Alfred Rubin Prize in International Law (2011) and the International Studies Association’s Carl Beck award for innovative research on emergent international concerns (2017).
She has published 11 articles and book chapters, and is the author of “”Arbitrary States: Social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda”” (Oxford University Press, 2021).
