Professor Michael Keating FBA FRSE FAcSS, the General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the founding Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change in Edinburgh, joins us to discuss the question of state and nation within the United Kingdom.

Professor Keating has worked on various aspects of public policy-making in Scotland and abroad, focusing on how to promote and galvanise the innovation of policy. He is also the author or editor of over thirty books on Scottish politics, European politics, nationalism and regionalism. As Director of the ESRC Centre on Constitutional Change, Professor Keating has given evidence to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee.