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
- Governance & Democracy
- International Political Economy Research Group
- International Relations Research Group
- Middle East Research Group
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

Julze Alejandre
Research Fellow in Public Engagement
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- Science, knowledge and policy

Soehail Ali
Doctoral Candidate in International Development (PhD Student)
- Governance & Democracy
- International development
- International Development Cluster
- International Political Economy Research Group
- Transitional Justice
- Work & Economy

Mubarak AlJeri
PhD Student
- Middle East Research Group
- Political Theory Research Group
- Religion and social movements
Dr Talal Alkhadher
Visitor Researcher

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

Zeineb Alsabeehg
PhD Candidate
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Middle East Research Group
- Migration and experiences of displacement

Aybuke Atalay
Teaching Fellow in Quantitative Methods
- Data & Digital
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Studies of information and communication technology
Miss Alexandra Ba-Tin
PhD Student
- Data & Digital
- European Union Studies
- International Relations Research Group
- Science, technology and innovation

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

Dr Annika Bergman Rosamond
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations and Gender, SPS Director of Students.
- Cultural Heritage
- Culture
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Gender, Feminism and Sexuality
- International Relations Research Group
- Politics and political violence

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
- Elections, public opinion and parties
- Energy & Sustainability
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Environment and energy

Christina Boswell
Professor of Politics

Marie Bruyndonckx
PhD Student
- European Union Studies
- Global health policy
- Governance & Democracy
- Science, knowledge and policy
Dr Regan Burles
Lecturer in International Relations
- International Relations Research Group
- Political Theory Research Group

Dr Julia Calvert
Senior Lecturer in International 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

Kajetan Cegłowski
PhD Student
- European Union Studies
- Governance & Democracy
- Nationalism and political action
- Territorial Politics Research Group

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
Dr Ben Coulson
Lecturer in International Relations
- International Relations Research Group

Professor Laura Cram
Professor of Neuropolitics and Director of NRLabs Neuropolitics Research
- Data & Digital
- European Union Studies
- Governance & Democracy
- Nationalism and political action

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

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

Dr Andonea Dickson
Research Fellow (Immigration Detention)
- International Relations Research Group
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Race and decolonial thought

Dr Sara Rich Dorman
Senior Lecturer in African Politics

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

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

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

Mx Miklas Fahrenwaldt
PhD Researcher & Tutor
- 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
PhD Student
- International Relations Research Group
- Nationalism and political action
- Politics and political violence

Grace Garland
PhD Researcher, Editor, Tutor
- 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

Dr Carmen Gebhard, SFHEA
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
- European Union Studies
- Governance & Democracy
- 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

Andrea Gimeno Solaz
PhD Student
- Finance and economic sociology
- International development
- International Political Economy Research Group
- International Relations Research Group