Areas of Supervision

Research in the school is principally organised around our centres and institutes. Below are some of the areas of research in which our staff currently specialise and areas where they can offer expert supervision.

Should you require further information, please contact the relevant member of staff.

Supervision areas
Staff member	Supervision areas
Professor Katharine Adeney	South Asia (especially India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) Federalism Ethnic conflict Power-sharing Democratisation
Dr Neema Begum	Ethnic minority political behaviour British politics Brexit Immigration Race and Racism
Professor Andreas Bieler	Labour movements and transnational solidarity Historical materialist analyses of restructuring in countries and sectors Historical materialist IR theory Resistance to neo-liberal globalisation Anti-austerity movements in Europe/the EU
Professor Tony Burns	History of political thought Utopian and dystopian political thought The Hegel-Marx connection Aristotle and Aristotelianism Methods in the history of political thought
Dr Fernando Casal Bertoa	Party systems Political parties and government Party regulation Democratisation
Dr Michaela Collord	The political economy of authoritarian regimes African political economy, focus on eastern Africa Urban politics and labour organising in the urban informal economy
Professor Rory Cormac	Secret intelligence Covert action MI6 Prime Ministers and intelligence Intelligence assessment and the Joint Intelligence Committee Intelligence, covert action and foreign policy fiascos
Dr William Daniel	European Union and European integration Legislative politics and political parties Representation and the role of individual backgrounds Political elites and career paths Mixed method research designs
Dr Andrew Denham	British political history British party politics British public policy Party leadership elections (and ejections) Political Ideologies
Dr Hugo Drochon	European political philosophy Democratic theory Liberalism and political realism Elite theories of democracy
Dr Pauline Eadie	Environmental disasters and rehabilitation Philippines: any topic Terrorism in South-East Asia Soft/smart power (including social military transformation) International aid: INGOs and NGOs
Professor Cees van der Eijk	Social science methodology Elections, public opinion and political parties (single and comparative) Public probity (especially Committee on Standards in Public Life)
Dr Kevin Fahey	Quantitative research methods Legislative institutions Elite behaviour Political parties, elections, and electoral institutions Conscription policy and wartime domestic politics
Professor Steven Fielding	British party politics and political history generally Labour and left politics and history British and US political culture Constructivist approaches to political research
Dr Andreas Fulda	Political history of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China Civil society and social movements in the PR China Role of foundations in non-democratic societies EU-China relations Citizen diplomacy
Dr Catherine Gegout	European Union Foreign policy EU diplomacy, security (CFSP and CSDP) EU trade (including fisheries) Intervention: ethics, motives and politics of intervention
Professor David Gill	International nuclear history Qualitative approaches to Sovereign Debt Grand Strategy Qualitative archival/historical research methods
Professor Paul Heywood	Corruption/Anti-corruption Integrity management Governance Executive capacity Spanish politics
Dr Ben Holland	The history of political thought, especially 17th/18th centuries The concept of the state The concept of sovereignty Intellectual history of IR Political theology
Professor Mathew Humphrey	Environmental political theory Political theory generally, especially 'analytical' political theory Ideologies Theories of ideology Second supervise more empirical projects on environmental politics
Dr Louise Kettle	British foreign policy Middle East-West relations History of Britain in the Middle East British military interventions Learning in the military
Dr Gulshan Khan	Democratic political theory Post-structuralism Habermas and deliberative democracy Post-Marxism and agonism Post-foundational thought
Dr Jason Klocek	Counter-insurgency Civil war Political repression Religion and politics
Dr Tyler Kustra	Political violence, including civil war and terrorism Economic sanctions Statistical analysis Game theory
Dr Hongyi Lai	China's governance China's political economy China's international political economy China and global governance China and regional order
Dr Chun-Yi Lee	Labour studies in China Taiwan China economic and political relations China's political economy Social movement, with focus on labour Migration studies Semi-structured interviewing
Dr Laura Martin	Conflict and Violence in Africa Gender in Africa NGO's and Politics of Development Transitional Justice Peacebuilding Politics of Human Rights and International Justice Sierre Leone: any topic
Dr Anna Meier	Terrorism and counterterrorism Far-right extremism Structural white supremacy Institutional racism in Germany and the United States of America Interpretive and relational methodologies
Professor Jan Meyer-Sahling	Public administration in Europe Public administration in developing countries Corruption and integrity management Europeanisation Central and Eastern Europe and South East Europe
Professor Caitlin Milazzo	Electoral systems Public opinion and voting behaviour Elections and campaigns in Britain Quantitative research methods
Dr Scott Moser	Legislative institutions and voting: US Congress, UK House of Commons, especially 19th century Comparative legislatures Quantitative research methods (empirical and 'formal' theory)
Professor Andrew Mumford	Proxy Wars Counter-Insurgency Terrorism US-UK 'special relationship'
Dr Vanessa Pupavac	Human rights politics Politics of language rights Humanitarian politics International race politics Shakespeare and international politics Trauma politics and therapeutic governance Resilience governance
Professor Wyn Rees	US-European security British defence policy Western counter-terrorism policies
Dr Matthew Rendall	International relations theory, particularly topics dealing with great power war/peace Contemporary analytic moral and political philosophy Russian foreign policy Climate change ethics International history between 1815-1914
Professor Bettina Renz	Russian foreign, security and defence policy Russian domestic politics Contemporary war and strategy, especially airpower Great Power politics
Dr Carole Spary	Gender, public policy, and state institutions Gender and political representation/participation Feminist politics of development/gender and political economy India and South Asia more widely Indian politics
Professor David Stevens	Rawlsian political philosophy Social justice Religious disobedience and reasonable pluralism Religious education and the philosophy of education Rational choice explanations of religious markets
Dr Jonathan Sullivan	Chinese domestic politics Chinese foreign policy Internet, media, political communication in China and other contexts Taiwanese politics
Dr Simon Toubeau	Comparative Federalism Multi-level governance Nationalism Political parties Public Policy
Dr Siim Trumm	British politics Electoral campaigns Political participation Legislative behaviour Party funding
Dr Annemarie Walter	Campaign strategy and effects (in particular negative campaigning) Media (news effects, media amplification, fake news) Political psychology (emotions, moral principles, personality traits) Quantitative research methods (experiments, content analysis, survey design)
Dr Helen Williams	Immigration Comparative politics European politics

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