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