Politics staff in the School of Social Sciences
Core Teaching and Research Staff
Dr Jack Bailey
Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science
Research specialisms: Economic voting, comparative politics, elections and electoral behaviour, quantitative methods, and survey research.
Dr Elena Barabantseva
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: The politics of national reproduction, migration, citizenship, ethnicity, identity, and borders in globalising China, audio-visual methodologies.
Dr Luke Bhatia
Lecturer in International Politics
Research specialisms: Social movements and culture, human rights, 21st-century authoritarianism, Middle Eastern politics, international political sociology.
Dr Ian Bruff
Senior Lecturer in European Politics
Research specialisms: Critical political economy, European political economy, neoliberalism, critical social theory, capitalist diversity.
Dr Marta Cantijoch Cunill
Q-Step Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: Political participation, elections and electoral behaviour, political communication, new media and social media, quantitative methods and survey research.
Dr Greig Charnock
Senior Lecturer in International Politics
Research specialisms: Contemporary global capitalism, crisis and austerity in Europe, critical theory (Marxism), theories of the production of space.
Dr Richard Child
Lecturer in Political Theory
Research specialisms: Nations and nationalism, global justice and social justice, punishment theory, theories of legitimate authority, rights.
Dr Martin Coward
Reader in International Politics
Research specialisms: Conflict and security, infrastructure, materiality, poststructuralist international relations theory, popular culture.
Dr Stephen De Wijze
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: The problem of 'dirty hands', political morality and the means/ends problem in politics, Anglo-American theories of justice, secular theories of evil, democracy and representation.
Dr Carl Death
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy
Research specialisms: African politics, development studies, environmental politics, protest and resistance.
Prof Robert Ford
Professor of Politics
Research specialisms: Radical right politics, politics of immigration, elections and electoral behaviour, public opinion, quantitative methods and survey research.
Prof Ed Fieldhouse
Professor of Social and Political Science
Research specialisms: Elections and electoral behaviour, voter turnout and registration, local campaigning, electoral geography.
Dr Jake Flavell
Lecturer in Global Political Economy
Research specialisms: Global political economy, development, critique of ideology, critical theory, NGOs, practical humanism
Prof Francesca Gains
Professor of Politics
Research specialisms: Public policy, policy agendas, gender and politics, British politics, devolution and local government.
Dr Franco Galdini
Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: political economy of development; industrialisation; labour; climate change; post-Soviet space.
Dr Vittorio Gerosa
Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: Political theory, Democratic theory, Deliberative democracy, Democratic innovations.
Prof Rachel Gibson
Professor of Political Science
Research specialisms: Digital technology and political parties, new media communication and campaigning.
Dr Jonathan Gilmore
Lecturer in International Relations
Research specialisms: Ethics and foreign policy, cosmopolitanism, human security, protection of civilians, critical military studies.
Dr Edward Goodger
Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Research Specialisms: Elections and Voting Behaviour, UK Politics, US Politics, Quantitative Methods, Radical Left Politics, and Populism
Dr Ellie Gore
Lecturer in Global Political Economy
Research specialisms: queer and feminist political economy, development, labour, social reproduction, gender and sexuality, West Africa
Prof Yoram Gorlizki
Head of Politics
Research specialisms: Russian, Soviet and Eurasian politics, theories of dictatorship.
Prof Peter Gries
Professor of Chinese Politics
Research specialisms: Chinese politics and foreign policy, American foreign policy, US-China relations, the political psychology of international affairs, nationalism.
Prof Toni Haastrup
Professor and Chair in Global Politics
Research Specialisms: feminist peace research; critical security studies; feminist social movements; global governance institutions; global power hierarchies
Dr Lotte Hargrave
Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science
Research specialisms: Gender and politics, political behaviour, legislative politics, public opinion, British politics, quantitative methods, and survey research.
Dr Stephen Hood
Lecturer in Political Theory
Research specialisms: Contemporary political theory, social justice, the political theory of socioeconomic institutions, the ethics of markets and competition.
Dr Aliki Koutlou
Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: feminist political economy, social reproduction, neoliberalism, debt, Southern Europe.
Dr Perla Polanco Leal
Lecturer in Global Political Economy
Research specialisms: Global Political Economy, Global Supply Chains, Labour, Social and Environmental Sustainability, Climate Change, Latin American Politics, Postcolonialism.
Prof Sherilyn MacGregor
Professor of Environmental Politics
Research specialisms: Environmental politics, feminist/gender politics, urban sustainability, social movements, citizenship and participation.
Dr Michael Magcamit
Lecturer in Global Politics
Research specialisms: Critical Security Studies, Conflict and Peacebuilding, International Trade (Security Politics and Political Economy), Emotions, Populism, and Securitization Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, Asia-Pacific Politics and IR
Dr Nicole Martin
Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: Elections and comparative politics, immigration, race and ethnicity, public opinion, candidates and representation.
Dr Cristina Masters
Lecturer in International Politics
Research specialisms: Feminist international relations theory, gender, war, violence, critical methodologies.
Dr Laura McLeod
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: Gender and post-conflict peacebuilding, feminist security studies, feminist organising, Former Yugoslavia and United Nations.
Dr Aoileann Ní Mhurchú
Lecturer in International Politics
Research specialisms: International migration, identity and belonging, citizenship, subjectivity, postcolonial and decolonial studies, language, and borders – focus on inter-generation migration, ambiguity, and voice.
Dr Timothy J Oliver
Lecturer in British Politics and Public Policy
Research specialisms: British politics, international relations, British foreign policy, British political history, qualitative research methods.
Dr Olga Onuch
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: Comparative politics of protest, elections, migration and identity, Eastern Europe and Latin America (Ukraine, Poland, Argentina, Brazil), surveys and language-based ethnographic fieldwork.
Prof Dimitris Papadimitriou
Professor of Politics
Research specialisms: EU politics and public policy, EU enlargement, EU external relations, varieties of capitalism, Greek politics.
Prof Matthew Paterson
Professor of International Politics
Research specialisms: Climate change politics, environmental political economy, cultural
Dr James Pattison
Professor of Politics
Research specialisms: Just war theory, humanitarian intervention and the responsibility, the alternatives to war, international ethics, the privatisation of war.
Dr Sandra Pogodda
Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies
Research specialisms: the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), revolutions, Arab uprisings, state formation, peace and conflict studies.
Dr Jasmin Ramovic
Lecturer in Peace and Conflict studies
Research specialisms: Peace and conflict studies, peacebuilding (particularly in the Balkans), international political economy, ethnographic research methods.
Prof David Richards
Professor of Politics
Research specialisms: Public policy, governance, globalisation, state theory, political biography.
Prof Liz Richardson
Professor of Politics
Research specialisms: Participatory research methods, public policy and co-production, urban governance, social justice and accountability, civic participation.
Prof Oliver Richmond
Research Professor
Research specialisms: Peace and conflict studies, peacebuilding, statebuilding, critical IR theory.
Dr Adrienne Roberts
Senior Lecturer in International Politics
Research specialisms: International political economy, feminist political economy, gender, social reproduction, debt.
Prof Miriam Ronzoni
Professor of Political Theory
Research specialisms: Global justice, global institutional design, methodological issues in political theory.
Dr Fernando Rosenblatt
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Research specialisms: Comparative Politics of Latin America, party organizations and party systems, party activism, Qualitative and Mixed Methods
Dr Clara Sandelind
Lecturer in Political Theory
Research specialisms: Political theories of immigration, asylum and nationalism.
Dr Christian Schemmel
Senior Lecturer in Political Theory
Research specialisms: Contemporary political theory, social justice and equality, global justice, the political theory of the welfare state, moral psychology.
Dr Liam Shields
Senior Lecturer in Political Theory
Research specialisms: Distributive justice, sufficientarianism, equality of opportunity and education, fairness in university admissions, the ethics of parenting and procreation.
Dr Stuart Shields
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy
Research specialisms: International political economy, Eastern Europe, regional development banks, Gramsci, populism.
Dr Rosalind Shorrocks
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: Gender and politics, voting behaviour, public opinion, quantitative methods.
Dr Dishil Shrimankar
Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Research specialism: Political Behaviour, Indian Politics and Quantitative Methods.
Dr Daniel Silver
Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: Urban experimentation and social transformation, social change at a municipal level, transitions to post-capitalist futures, critical participatory action research, politics of knowledge production.
Dr Andrew Slack
Lecturer in Politics
Prof Maria Sobolewska
Professor of Political Science
Research specialisms: Elections and voting behaviour, public opinion, immigrant integration, race, ethnicity and religion.
Dr David Stroup
Lecturer in Chinese Studies
Research specialisms: Research specialisms: Chinese Politics, China’s ethnic politics, Islam in China, nationalism and ethnic politics, everyday nationalism, the politics of authoritarian states, state-society relations.
Dr Shogo Suzuki
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: International relations theory, East Asia, Chinese and Japanese foreign policy, Sino-Japanese relations.
Dr Lama Tawakkol
Lecturer in International Relations
Research specialisms: Global Political Economy; Middle East Political Economy; global development policy, aid and finance; debt; capitalism; neoliberalism; North-South inequalities and relations; multi-scalar IPE.
Dr Louise Thompson
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: UK parliament, legislation, representation, political parties, political engagement/participation.
Dr Paul Tobin
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: European politics, environmental politics, public policy, multi-level governance, comparative methods.
Dr Silke Trommer
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: International political economy, international trade, development, social movements, gender and IPE.
Dr Nick Turnbull
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Research specialisms: Public policy, governance, slavery and trafficking policy, political rhetoric, political questioning.
Dr Sabrina Villenave
Lecturer in Politics
Dr Robert Watt
Lecturer in Politics
Prof Georgina Waylen
WJM Mackenzie Chair in Government
Research specialisms: Gender and politics, comparative politics, feminist institutionalism, international political economy.
Prof Andy Westwood
Professor of Government Practice; Vice Dean for Social Responsibility and a Director of the ESRC Productivity Institute
Research specialisms: British politics, government and public policy, devolution and cities, further and higher education policy, science and innovation.
Prof Angelia Wilson
Professor of Politics
Research specialisms: American politics, religion and politics, gender and sexuality studies.
Dr Andreja Zevnik
Senior Lecturer in International Politics
Research specialisms: Critical race studies, marginalised communities, politics of resistance and mobilisation, political philosophy and psychoanalysis, subjectivity.
Research Fellows and Associates
Dr Jack Bailey
Research Associate, the British Election Study
Research specialisms: Economic voting, British politics, elections and voting behaviour, public opinion, quantitative methods, Bayesian methods, and survey research.
Dr Han-Wu-Shuang Bao
Dr Jonathan Benson
Hallsworth Research Fellow
Research specialisms: Political theory and economy, deliberative democracy, the relationship between democracy and markets, political ignorance and misinformation, polarisation.
Dr Thomas Flavell
Dr Felipe Gonzalez Santos
Research Associate, MOBILISE project
Research specialisms: Social movements, protest, mixed methods research
Dr Jack Newman
Dr Costanza Porro
Dr Ralph Scott
Dr Tao Wang
Hallsworth Research Fellow
Dr Samuel Warner
Research Associate, ‘Public expenditure planning and control in complex times: A study of Whitehall departments' relationship to the Treasury (1993-present)’
Research specialisms: British politics, (de/re)politicisation, governance, state theory, archival analysis.
Honorary Staff
Sir Howard Bernstein
Ms Karen Clarke
Mr Pat Devine
Professor Jenny Edkins
Professor Peter Lawler
Dr Alyna Nychyk
Dr Japtheth Wilson
Professor Maja Zehfuss
Emeritus Professors
Prof Alan Hamlin
Professor John Metcalfe
Prof Kevin Morgan
Professor of Politics
Research specialisms: Political ideas and ideologies, 20th-century British politics, European communism, labour movements and the radical left, political biography, interviewing and life-histories.
Professor Geraint Parry
Professor Hermann Schmitt
Professor Hillel Steiner
Professor Colin Talbot
Academic Advisor
Dr Hawraman Ali
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