Welcome to New Staff in the School of Politics and International Relations

As we begin the new term, we wanted to introduce three new academics in the School of Politics and International Relations.

Eloise Bertrand
Dr Eloïse Bertrand joins the School as Assistant Professor. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Centre for European and International Studies Research at the University of Portsmouth, and an early-career fellow at the University of Warwick, where she obtained her PhD in 2020. She was recently awarded an ESRC new investigator grant to conduct research on the intersection of security, democratisation, and elite politics in the Sahel region, involving collaborative research in Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria. She has also been working on the role of opposition parties in hybrid regimes, electoral mobilisation strategies, and democracy promotion in Western and Eastern Africa. She is the co-author of A Dictionary of African Politics (OUP). Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as African Affairs and Democratization, and as policy briefs and reports.

Christopher Byrne
Dr. Christopher Byrne has joined SPIR as Assistant Professor in British Politics. He has published extensively in the areas of British politics, the UK parliament, political leadership and higher education pedagogy. He is editor of the journal British Politics and an active member of the Political Studies Association. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Daniel Lomas
Dan is Assistant Professor in International Relations, and joins the University of Nottingham having worked at Brunel University, London. He holds a Masters and PhD from the University of Salford, looking at Cold War intelligence and policymaking, and is now a specialist in the UK intelligence community. Dan is currently working on a new book looking at the cultural and political history of UK security vetting, and has been contracted to write a short history of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6). He is also interested in public attitudes to intelligence and security in the UK, and the public engagement strategies used by the UK agencies – MI5, GCHQ and SIS. Dan’s teaching focuses on intelligence and security. He joins the school's Centre for the Study of Subversion, Unconventional Interventions and Terrorism. Other than publish academic work, Dan has contributed to the RUSI think-tank and History of Government Blog, and has discussed spying with the BBC, Channel 4 news, ITV, Sky News, CNN, ABC News, The Guardian, The Times, and other media organisations. A Mancunian, Dan is a Manchester City fan and lover of the 90s indie scene. He can be found tweeting intelligence and security related news and thoughts via @Sandbagger_01.

Posted on Friday 29th September 2023

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