School of Social and Political Science

Constantinos Kyritsopoulos

PHD Politics - Research Fellow

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C.G.Kyritsopoulos@sms.ed.ac.uk

Research interests

Elections, public opinion and parties European Union Studies Governance & Democracy Identities & Inequalities International Relations Research Group Nationalism and political action Territorial Politics Research Group

Background

Constantine is a Research Fellow in the Neuropolitics Lab, and a Doctoral Student under the supervision of Professor Laura Cram (Politics), Dr. Adam Moore (Psychology), and Professor Marc Hooghe (Social Sciences at KU Leuven). He has also taught for the Introduction to Political Data Analysis course and is a Teaching Assistant on the Neuropolitics and Future Governance courses at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

His research interests revolve around the interdisciplinary approaches to the psychology of identity, ideology and values in a political context. His dissertation focuses on the political psychology of territorial identity in Europe, using behavioral and experimental techniques to complement quantitative survey methods.

Currently, he is working as a PDRA on a VW Stifung Project, examing the psychological processes underlying European identity, solidarity and cohesion. Other interests include computational social science, the use of LLMs as tools for, and subjects of, psychological text analysis, the role of Scottish identity in British politics, and neuroscientific/evolutionary approaches to the social sciences more generally.  

Collaborations always welcome. 

Education 

  • PhD in Politics (University of Edinburgh and KU Leuven)
  • Joint Master: European Politics & Society (Charles, Pompeu Fabra, & Leiden Universities)
  • MSc Neuroscience cum laude (University of Florida, College of Medicine) 

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