| Staff member | Supervision areas |
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| Professor Katharine Adeney |
- South Asia (especially India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh)
- Federalism
- Ethnic conflict
- Power-sharing
- Democratisation
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| 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
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| 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
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| Dr Fernando Casal Bertoa |
- Party systems
- Political parties and government
- Party regulation
- Democratisation
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| 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
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| Dr Oliver Daddow |
- Brexit
- Euroscepticism and pro-Europeanism
- British political history: Labour and Conservatives
- Public policy fiascos
- Qualitative research methods: discourse and narrative analysis
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| Dr Andrew Denham |
- British political history
- British party politics
- British public policy
- Party leadership elections (and ejections)
- Political Ideologies
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| Dr Hugo Drochon |
- European political philosophy
- Democratic theory
- Liberalism and political realism
- Elite theories of democracy
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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
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| Dr Catherine Gegout |
- European Union Foreign policy
- EU diplomacy, security (CFSP and CSDP)
- EU trade (including fisheries)
- Intervention: ethics, motives and politics of intervention
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Professor David Gill
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- British nuclear history
- Neorealism, focusing on great power politics
- Grand Strategy
- Archival/historical research methods
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| Professor Paul Heywood |
- Corruption/Anti-corruption
- Integrity management
- Governance
- Executive capacity
- Spanish politics
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| 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
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Professor Mathew Humphrey
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- Environmental political theory
- Political theory generally, especially 'analytical' political theory
- Ideologies
- Theories of ideology
- Second supervise more empirical projects on environmental politics
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Dr Nicole Janz
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- Human Rights/Labour Rights/Repression
- Corruption
- Globalisation/Trade/Foreign Direct Investment
- Socioeconomic development/democracy/governance/inequality/institutions in developing nations
- Cross-country studies/quantitative and mixed methods
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|
Dr Louise Kettle
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- British foreign policy
- Middle East-West relations
- History of Britain in the Middle East
- British military interventions
- Learning in the military
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| Dr Gulshan Khan |
- Democratic political theory
- Post-structuralism
- Habermas and deliberative democracy
- Post-Marxism and agonism
- Post-foundational thought
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| Dr Hongyi Lai |
- China's governance
- China's political economy
- China's international political economy
- China and global governance
- China and regional order
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| 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
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| 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
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| Dr Caitlin Milazzo |
- Electoral systems
- Public opinion and voting behaviour
- Elections and campaigns in Britain
- Quantitative research methods
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| 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)
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| Dr Andrew Mumford |
- Proxy Wars
- Counter-Insurgency
- Terrorism
- US-UK 'special relationship'
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| Professor Chris Pierson |
- Property
- Welfare states
- Democratic theory
- History of ideas
- Social democracy
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| Professor Sue Pryce |
- Politics of drugs
- US politics
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| 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
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| Professor Wyn Rees |
- US-European security
- British defence policy
- Western counter-terrorism policies
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| 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
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| Dr Bettina Renz |
- Russian foreign, security and defence policy
- Russian domestic politics
- Contemporary war and strategy, especially airpower
- Great Power politics
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| 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
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| Dr 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
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| Dr Jonathan Sullivan |
- Chinese domestic politics
- Chinese foreign policy
- Internet, media, political communication in China and other contexts
- Taiwanese politics
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| Professor Cecilia Testa |
- Political economy
- Comparative institutions
- Corruption
- Distributive politics
- Migration policy
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| Dr Simon Toubeau |
- Comparative Federalism
- Multi-level governance
- Nationalism
- Political parties
- Public Policy
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| Dr Siim Trumm |
- British politics
- Electoral campaigns
- Political participation
- Legislative behaviour
- Party funding
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| 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)
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| Dr Helen Williams |
- Immigration
- Comparative politics
- European politics
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