People
Our people are the most important thing about our subject area. It takes a team of academics, professional services colleagues and PhD students working together to deliver our teaching, carry out our research and keep the department running. Together, they form a supportive community covering a range of professional expertise. You can search by name or role here, or browse below.
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Dr Lucy Abbott
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
- International Political Economy Research Group
- International Relations Research Group
- Middle East Research Group

Dr Michael Aeby
Visiting Academic

Dr Nida Alahmad
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
- Middle East Research Group
- Political Theory Research Group
- Politics and political violence

Dr Michael Albert
Lecturer in Global Environmental Politics
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- International Relations Research Group

Mubarak S. AlJeri
PhD Student
- Middle East Research Group
- Political Theory Research Group
- Religion and social movements
Dr Talal Alkhadher
Visitor Researcher
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Governance & Democracy
- Middle East Research Group

Dr Jamie Allinson
Senior Lecturer
- International Relations Research Group
- Middle East Research Group
- Political Theory Research Group
- Politics and political violence

Camilo Ardila Arévalo
PhD student
- Political Theory Research Group
- Politics and political violence
- Race and decolonial thought

Aybuke Atalay
PhD student
- Data & Digital
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Studies of information and communication technology

Salvatore FP Barillà
PhD student
- European Union Studies
- International Political Economy Research Group
- International Relations Research Group

Dr Karlo Basta
Senior Lecturer
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods
- Nationalism and political action
- Territorial Politics Research Group

Emilia Belknap
Research Assistant, Teaching Fellow and SPSS Tutor Coordinator
- British politics research
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- Identities & Inequalities
- Territorial Politics Research Group

Dr Annika Bergman Rosamond
Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Gender
- Cultural Heritage
- Gender Politics Research Group
- International Relations Research Group

Professor Shaun Bevan
Professor of Comparative Public Policy
- British politics research
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Governance & Democracy
- Methods

Dr Andrea Birdsall
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
- International Relations Research Group

Nick Bland
Visiting Professor

Elizabeth Bomberg
Professor of Environmental Politics

Christina Boswell
Professor of Politics
Benedikt Buechel
Tutor

Dr Julia Calvert
Senior Lecturer in International / Global Political Economy
- International Political Economy Research Group
- International Relations Research Group

Rebecca Campbell
PhD
- International Relations Research Group

Javier Carbonell
PhD title: The Politicization of ‘Anti-nationalism’: How are Responses to the Rise of Nationalism Being Articulated?

Dr Rosalind Cavaghan
Emma Goldman Fellow (Flax Foundation) and visiting scholar at Politics and International Relations

Dr Adam William Chalmers
Senior Lecturer (European Union Politics)
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- European Union Studies
- Finance and economic sociology
- Governance & Democracy
- International Political Economy Research Group
- Methods

Professor Sarah Childs
Personal Chair of Politics and Gender
- British politics research
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Gender Politics Research Group

Andrea Christou
PhD Student
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- European Union Studies
- Governance & Democracy
- International Relations Research Group

Joseph Conrad
PhD title: Climate Justice and the Corporation as a Moral Agent
- Political Theory Research Group

Dr Alan Convery
Senior Lecturer in Politics

Dr Philip Cook
Senior Lecturer
- Children and families
- Political Theory Research Group
Dr Ben Coulson
Lecturer in International Relations
- International Relations Research Group

Laura Cram
Professor of European Politics and Director of NRLabs Neuropolitics Research

Dr Elizabeth Cripps
Senior Lecturer in Political Theory
- Political Theory Research Group

Mr Francesco D'Alema
PhD Student

Chad Damro
Professor of European Politics
- International Political Economy Research Group
- International Relations Research Group

Dr Jean-Francois Daoust
Lecturer in Politics
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Governance & Democracy
- Methods
- Nationalism and political action
- Territorial Politics Research Group

Dr Cleo Davies
Teaching
- British politics research
- European Union Studies
- Science, knowledge and policy

Dr Sara Rich Dorman
Senior Lecturer in African Politics

Dr Claire Duncanson
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
- Gender Politics Research Group

Professor Oliver Escobar
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation
- Governance & Democracy

Dr Darrick Nighthawk Evensen
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Politics
- British politics research
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy
- Governance & Democracy
- International development
- Methods
- Not just energy futures
- Religion and social movements
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Science, technology and innovation
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19

Lucy Ewing
Europa Institute Administrator

Miklas Fahrenwaldt
PhD Student
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Identities & Inequalities
- International Relations Research Group

Qingyang (Vera) Feng
PhD Student, Politics & International Relations
- Data & Digital
- Governance of welfare states
- Science, knowledge and policy
- Studies of information and communication technology

Isabella Gabrovsky
PhD student
- Identities & Inequalities
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Nationalism and political action

Ruolan Gan 甘若兰
PhD Student
- International Relations Research Group
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence

Grace Garland
PhD Researcher, Tutor, Research Assistant
- Culture
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Methods
- Political Theory Research Group
- Race and decolonial thought
- Science, knowledge and policy

Lindsey Garner-Knapp
PhD Student
- International Relations Research Group
- Territorial Politics Research Group

Joe Gazeley
PhD title: “They have many chains to bind us”: state formation, foreign policy and the colonial pact in Mali, c.1958-2020

Dr Carmen Gebhard, SFHEA
Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR; Co-Director of the MSc International and European Politics
- International Relations Research Group
- Politics and political violence
- Territorial Politics Research Group

Dr Marc Geddes
Senior Lecturer in Politics
- British politics research
- Governance & Democracy
- Science, knowledge and policy