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Head of Department
Professor Amelia Hadfield
Head of Politics and International Relations Founding Director, Centre for Britain and Europe, Chair in European and International Relations, Associate Head of School, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Science
Academic staff
Professor Daniele Albertazzi
Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe
Carmen Caruso
Research Fellow
Dr Laura Chappell
Senior Lecturer in European Politics
Dr Simon Curtis
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Dr Mustafa Demir
Associate Fellow
Professor Theofanis Exadaktylos
Professor in European Politics
Dr Ciaran Gillespie
Lecturer in International Politics/Director of Employability
Dr Nikolaos Gkotsis Papaioannou
Senior Lecturer in International Politics/ Senior Personal Tutor - Student Experience and Wellbeing; Politics Disability Coordinator.
Dr Simona Guerra
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Dr Jonathan Hall
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
Dr Malte Kaeding
Senior Lecturer in International Politics
Dr Nicholas Kitchen
Senior Lecturer in International Relations; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Power Competition (CGPC)
Dr Alex Leveringhaus
Lecturer in Political Theory; Co-Director, Centre for International Intervention
Professor Emma Mayhew
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Education (interim) Professor of Pedagogy in Politics and International Relations
Dr Alia Middleton
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Co-Director of The Centre for Britain and Europe (CBE) and Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Dr Roula Nezi
Senior Lecturer in Political Science
Dr Michael Richter
Postdoctotal Research Fellow and Lecturer
Visiting staff
Michael Aaronson
Visiting Professor in Practice
Barbara Serra
Visiting Professor in Practice
Dr Jamie Shea
Visiting Professor
Professor Simon Usherwood
Visiting Research Fellow
Dr Nick Wright
Visiting Researcher
Postgraduate research students
Hadiza Adamu Fika
Postgraduate Research Student
Dr Nicole Boyce
Postgraduate Research Student
Giada D'Andrea
PhD Candidate in Politics
Emmanuel Ogueri Ibekwe
Doctoral Researcher
Margaryta Khvostova
Postgraduate Research Student
Philippe Lefevre
Associate Director, Centre for Britain and Europe; Doctoral Fellow and Researcher
Darill Liew
Postgraduate Research Student
Patricia Rehus
Postgraduate Research Student
Christian Turner
Postgraduate Research Student
Panos Vasileiadis
Postgraduate Research Student
Bianka Vida
Doctoral Researcher in Politics