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Over 90 people work in the Department of Politics and International Relations.

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Dr Remi Adekoya

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • The Politics of Identity
  • British colonialism in Africa
  • Post-colonial African Politics

Dr Nuray Aridici

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Nationalism
  • Gender
  • Foreign policy

Dr Gabriele Badano

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Political philosophy
  • Contemporary political theory

Clare Blackmore

Postgraduate Student Services Administrator

Research interests:

  • History of political thought
  • Contemporary political theory
  • Intellectual history

Lucy Brown

Undergraduate Student Services Administrator

Natalie Browne

Research Facilitator

Becca Calder

Postgraduate Student Services Coordinator

Research interests:

  • Environmental politics and policy
  • British party politics

Professor Nina Caspersen

Associate Dean for Research in Social Sciences

Research interests:

  • Dynamics of intra-state conflicts
  • Strategies for conflict resolution
  • Unrecognised states

Melissa Chacon

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Feminist conflict and peace studies
  • Sexual and gender-based violence
  • Affect, queer, and decolonial studies
  • Displacement and migration
  • Art and social mobilisation
  • Participatory and arts-based methodologies

Chris Clegg

Undergraduate/PPE Student Services Coordinator

Dr Liam Clegg

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • International political economy
  • International organisations
  • Economic governance

Jenny Cousens

Staff Administrator

Sarah Cunnold

Student wellbeing Officer

Sara Dace-Hughes

HR Administrator

Dr Simona Davidescu

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Sustainable development and environment politics
  • Energy Policy
  • East European Politics

Research interests:

  • Conflict
  • China's global influence
  • Public opinion and International Security
  • Foreign Policy Processes

Research interests:

  • NGOs and (global) civil society
  • Migration and Race
  • (Post-)Colonialism
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • International Development
  • Conflict
  • Brokerage

Dr Kieran Durkin

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Marxism
  • Critical Theory
  • Radical Humanism(s)

Research interests:

  • International political economy
  • International organisations
  • European and Asian regionalism

Research interests:

  • Conflict resolution
  • Post-war recovery
  • Middle Eastern politics

Dr John Evemy

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • British Politics
  • Political Economy
  • Labour markets and Immigration
  • Monetary Policy

Dr Tomaz Fares

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • International political economy
  • Agrarian studies
  • Chinese studies
  • State analysis
  • Environment and sustainable development
  • Latin American studies

Dr Christopher Featherstone

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Foreign Policy Analysis
  • Policy-making
  • UK Foreign Policy
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Iraq War

Research interests:

  • Political theory
  • History of political thought
  • Multiculturalism

Dr Paulina Flores Martinez

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • International Political Economy
  • Global Environmental Politics
  • Food systems politics
  • Trade and the environment
  • Transnational Environmental Governance

Louise Frith

Departmental Academic and Communication Skills Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Departmental Academic and Communication Skills

Dr Adam Fusco

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Northern Ireland
  • Irish Political Thought
  • Unionism(s)
  • Territorial Politics in the UK
  • National Self-Determination

Research interests:

  • International Relations Theory
  • Critical Security Studies
  • Political Psychology
  • International Political Sociology,
  • Emotion research in Politics and International Relations

Dr Thalia Gerzso

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Political institutions
  • Democratic processes
  • African politics

Kristine Gill

Finance and Administration Assistant

Dr Harriet Gray

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Feminist international relations
  • Critical military and critical war studies
  • Sexual and gender-based violence

Professor Paul Gready

Professor and Director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights

Research interests:

  • Transitional justice
  • Development and human rights
  • Culture and human rights practice

Aaron Gribble

Postgraduate Student Services Administrator

Research interests:

  • Political economy of development
  • Politics of citizenship
  • Human rights and democratization

Research interests:

  • Rebel Governance
  • Conflict and Peace Studies
  • Illicit Economies
  • Colombia and Latin American Studies
  • Transitional and Transformative Justice

Research interests:

  • Democratisation of human development
  • Economic justice
  • Modalities of institutional change
  • Comparative political economy of development and public policy
  • Basic income
  • Comparative capitalism and the welfare state

Research interests:

  • Comparative European politics
  • Voting behaviour and party politics
  • Populism
  • Nationalism and extremism
  • Far right parties
  • Comparative methods

Dr Alex Hall

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • International securitisation of mobility
  • Contemporary border politics

Dr Eva Heims

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • The politics of regulation
  • EU and transnational regulation
  • Banking, food safety and pharmaceuticals regulation
  • Comparative public policy and administration

Professor Tony Heron

Professor and Head of Department of Politics and International Relations

Research interests:

  • Trade
  • Food systems
  • Global value chains
  • Environmental sustainability

Trudy Hilary

Administration Manager

Dr Eric Hoddy

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Development and human rights
  • Climate and environmental change
  • Human rights and social movements
  • Transitional and transformative justice

Dr Su Yeone Jeon

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • International Development
  • International Political Economy
  • Technological Innovation and Regulation

Dr Saba Joshi

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Feminist Political Economy
  • Land Dispossession
  • Agrarian Change
  • Gender and Global Governance

Dr Daniel Keith

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Party politics
  • Comparative politics
  • The radical left

Dr Ruth Kelly

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Cultural politics
  • Citizenship practices
  • Engaged political theory
  • Feminist theory

Marysia Koc

Deputy Head of Faculty Operations

Dr Judith Krauss

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Sustainable cocoa value chains
  • Decoloniality & justice in conservation
  • Political ecology

Charlotte Leap

Postgraduate Student Services Administrator

Sue Leatt

Student Services Manager

Research interests:

  • Comparative and international political economy
  • European Union Politics
  • Public policy

Joanna MacDonald

Staff Administrator

Vicki Mather

Postgraduate Student Services Administrator

Dr Phil Mayne

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Strategy
  • Counterinsurgency
  • International Security/Conflict
  • Ethics (Just War Tradition)
  • Strategic Ethics

Jayne McCullagh

Student Administration Manager

Dr Alfred Moore

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Politics of expertise
  • Contemporary democratic theory
  • Deliberative democracy
  • Political theories of trust and distrust
  • Democratic innovations

Dr Jeremy Moulton

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Environmental politics
  • Climate action
  • European Union politics and policy
  • Political myth

Research interests:

  • Power, ideas and institutions in politics of international development

Dr Alasia Nuti

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Political theory
  • Historical injustice & Memory
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Race
  • Structural injustice
  • Immigration
  • Pluralism

Jen Ormerod

PPE Student Services Administrator

Laura Oxford

Postgraduate Student Services Coordinator

Research interests:

  • Urban studies and urban theory
  • Socio-spatial informatics
  • Politics of asylum and immigration
  • Comparative European politics

Kathy Perry

PPE Student Services Administrator

Luke Price

Postgraduate Student Services Coordinator

Dr Bernardo Rangoni

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Public policy
  • Political economy
  • Regulatory governance

Research interests:

  • International relations and international security
  • Nuclear disarmament
  • Proliferation and arms control
  • US and UK national security

Frances Roach

Undergraduate Student Services Administrator

Jenne Roantree-Cham

Administration Manager

Research interests:

  • Heterodox political economy
  • Development
  • Global Food Production
  • Social Movements

Dr Toni Rouhana

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Civil war
  • Computational social sciences
  • Ethnography
  • Middle East
  • Contentious politics and social movements

Research interests:

  • Rising powers
  • Political change and social transformation

Dr Anna Sanders

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • British politics
  • Gender
  • Elections
  • Public policy

Research interests:

  • Decentralisation
  • Parties and electoral politics
  • Gender and politics
  • Gender and conflict
  • Southeast Asia

Research interests:

  • Civil war
  • Social mobilisation
  • Ex-combatant reintegration
  • Civilian protection norms and practices
  • Fieldwork methods and ethics

Dr Gyda Sindre

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Non-state armed groups
  • Political parties
  • Secessionist conflict
  • Peacebuilding
  • Democratisation

Dr Claire Smith

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Democratisation
  • War to peace transitions
  • Humanitarian interventions
  • Ethno-religious violence
  • Development in contested states

Dr Katherine Smith

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Social movements and civil society
  • Young people's politics
  • Qualitative, creative and participatory research methods

Research interests:

  • British politics
  • Public policy
  • State transformation

Leanne Spencer

Staff Administrator

Research interests:

  • Political theory
  • History of political thought
  • Historical formation of modern ideas

Research interests:

  • Historian of early modern Europe

Ann Tunstall

Placements Coordinator

Dr Joe Turner

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Borders, mobility, control
  • Postcolonial theory, race, violence
  • The geopolitics of intimacy, gender and family

Dr Sayra Van Den Berg

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Civil war
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Transitional justice
  • Decoloniality
  • Transitional justice
  • Arts-based research methods

Research interests:

  • Just war theory
  • Global ethics
  • Political theory

Dr Pavlos Vasilopoulos

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Political Psychology
  • Political Behaviour
  • Comparative Politics

Ruth Walton

Undergraduate Student Services Administrator

Dr Matthew Whiting

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Non-state armed groups
  • Moderation and Radicalism
  • Local politics and ethno-national conflict
  • Power-sharing