保罗·M·海伍德教授是国际著名的比较政治学家，英国皇家文科学会委员，现任英国诺丁汉大学研究生院院长，欧洲政治专业教授。
海伍德教授主要的专业领域是欧洲政治，尤其是南欧国家如西班牙等国。其研究兴趣广泛，涉及欧洲的分权与委托，国家发展，腐败丑闻对民主国家的影响，欧洲的民主化进程和政治变革；制度设计，国家能力和政治过程，而近年来他的兴趣热点之一即为政治腐败。
海伍德教授承担了多项课题，其中由具有国际声誉的社会科学资助项目ERSC（经济与社会研究理事会）项目即达4项之多，经费达40余万英镑。他的专著与合著有《西班牙与欧盟》、《欧洲政治发展》、《西班牙政府与政治》、《西欧政治发展》、《民主西班牙的政治与政策》、《政治腐败》等12部，学术论文有《政治丑闻与腐败》、《当代西班牙的腐败、民主与管理》、《西欧的政治腐败、民主与管理》、《腐败：问题与前景》等60多篇。他主编过“政治腐败”、“南欧社会与政治”等多套具有重大影响的系列丛书和国际比较政治学刊物《政治及其对立者》。
 
Professor Paul M. Heywood, MA, MSc(Econ), PhD, FRSA 
Born: Liverpool, UK (27 March 1958) 
 
Academic Qualifications
MA(Hons) Politics (Class I: Summa cum Laude) University of Edinburgh, 1981 
MSc(Econ) Political Sociology London School of Economics and Political Science, 1982 
PhD (Government Department) London School of Economics and Political Science, 1988 
 
Positions Held 
2003  07: Dean of the Graduate School, University of Nottingham 
1995  present: Sir Francis Hill Professor of European Politics, University of Nottingham 
2000: Visiting Scholar, Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Madrid) 
1992-95: Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Glasgow 
1989-91: Lecturer in Politics, University of Glasgow 
1989-92: Consultant author on Spain for Economist Intelligence Unit, London 
1987-89: Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary College, University of London 
1999-2003: co-editor, South European Society and Politics 
2003-09: co-editor, Government & Opposition 
2001-05: Member of Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Grants Board 
since 2002: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts 
 
Major Research Awards 
2004: ￡100,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)/Joint Information 
Systems Committe (JISC) for a project on ‘Resource Discovery for Researchers in E-Social Science’ (jointly with Professor T Rodden) 
1997-99: ￡80,870 from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for ‘The Core Executive and the Policy Process in Spain’ 
1992-94: ￡168,064 from the ESRC (jointly with Professors W.L. Miller and S.L. White) for ‘Public Opinion and Democratic Consolidation in Russia and East-Central Europe’. 
1989-91: ￡58,870 from the ESRC (jointly  with Professor P. Preston) for ‘Military Modernisation in Spain: Attitudes, Organisation and Industrial Production’. 
1986-87: Vicente Canada Blanch Research Fellowship, University of London 
1982-86: SSRC awards for MSc and PhD 
 
Main Publications 
Marxism and the Failure of Organised Socialism in Spain, 1879-1936 (Cambridge: University