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	Linguistic nationalism in India or Pakistan, either at the national or the state/provincial level The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor - especially in relation to Special Economic Zones The Digital Silk Road or agriculture Religious majoritarianism in India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka
Dr Neema Begum	Ethnic minority political behaviour British politics Brexit Immigration Race and Racism
Dr Eloïse Bertrand	Democratization, political parties, elections, political institutions, and mobilization in Africa and other world regions Conflict management and counter-insurgency in Africa (particularly the Sahel region) Any topic in Francophone Africa, Nigeria, and Uganda.
Professor Andreas Bieler	Resistance to neo-liberal globalisation Trade unions and transnational solidarity European integration and political economy Historical materialist IR theory
Dr Christopher Byrne	British party politics Political leadership UK Parliament Neoliberalism
Dr Fernando Casal Bertoa	Party system closure/stability and party institutionalisation Political party (funding) regulation Democratisation and democracy promotion
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	Intelligence Covert operations (propaganda, political influence, sabotage, subversion)
Dr William Daniel	European Union and European integration Legislative politics and political parties Gender and political representation Individual backgrounds and career paths Digital campaigning and social media Mixed method research designs using bespoke sources of data
Dr Andrew Denham	British public policy Conservatism and Conservative Party politics Political Biography Party leadership selection in British politics
Dr Hugo Drochon	Nietzsche's politics Democratic theory Liberalism Centrism Conspiracy theories
Dr Pauline Eadie	Human or critical security, including terrorism Environmental issues Disaster relief and resilience in the aftermath of disasters Philippines: any topic Work informed by the writings of Karl Polanyi and the Copenhagen School
Dr Kevin Fahey	Quantitative research methods Legislative institutions Elite behaviour Political parties, elections, and electoral institutions Conscription policy and wartime domestic politics
Dr Sean Fleming	Anti-technology radicalism Environmentalism Thomas Hobbes State responsibility
Dr Andreas Fulda	Democratic security Hybrid interference by autocratic regimes Sino-German relations Academic freedom Citizen diplomacy
Dr Catherine Gegout	European Union - foreign policy, defence integration, security (CFSP and ESDP) EU trade, aid and development policies EU-NATO-UN relations EU-US economic and political relations EU and Africa European International Politics Theories of European Integration European Union Politics
Professor David Gill	The uses of history in International Relations Western alliances during the Cold War The politics of sovereign debt and default
Professor Paul Heywood	Developing accurate measures of political corruption Effective strategies to combat political corruption The international anti-corruption movement and its impact
Dr Ben Holland	The history of political thought, especially 17th/18th centuries The concept of the state The concept of sovereignty Intellectual history of International Relations Political theology
Professor Mathew Humphrey	Political ideology/ideologies Theories of ideology Environmental political theory The politics of motorcycling/powered two-wheeled transport
Dr Louise Kettle	British foreign policy (especially in relation to the Middle East) British military interventions in the Middle East UK-Iran relations The Iraq War The use of the past in contemporary policy-making
Dr Gulshan Khan	Concept development (re-signifying and developing existing concepts such as domination, freedom and control) Continental political theory/post-structuralism Populism/Post-truth politics Contemporary democratic theory
Dr Jason Klocek	Religion and international relations Political discrimination and violence Civil wars and armed conflict Insurgency and counter-insurgency
Dr Tyler Kustra	Economic sanctions Political violence Quantitative methods in the study of international relations
Dr Hongyi Lai	Governance and institutional reform, including crisis management and ideological formulation Authoritarianism, political stability and protests Elite politics and leadership Democratisation and political reform Ethnic policy Religious policy and religious activities Economic diplomacy China's soft power China's international relations China's international political economy Linkage between domestic and external politics (and political economy) China's energy security and energy diplomacy China's energy policy and energy sector Regional developmental programs, especially western development, central regional development, and northeast revival Political economy of economic reform and transition Central-local relations
Dr Chun-Yi Lee	Political economy Innovation and supply chain China-Taiwan relations China's impact on the global economy Comparative studies of Taiwan
Dr Adam Lindsay	The history of European political thought, especially the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries Contemporary democratic theory Constitutional theory The concept of peoplehood The political thought of revolution
Dr Daniel Lomas	UK intelligence community Diplomacy and intelligence Public perceptions of intelligence Intelligence theory and practice
Dr Alexandru Marcoci	AI Policy; AI Governance; AI Risk; AI Safety Foresight; Forecasting; Futures Studies; Existential Risks Group Decision-making; Expert decision-making; Delphi Metascience; Replicability; Reproducibility; Science of Science Campus speech; Freedom of Speech; Cancel Culture
Dr Natalie Martin	Turkish politics and foreign policy Turkey-EU relations News media freedom and liberal democracy Information and security
Dr Helen McCabe	Forced marriage John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor and Helen Taylor
Professor Jan Meyer-Sahling	Comparative European politics Public administration, public policy and anti-corruption in Europe and in developing countries
Professor Caitlin Milazzo	Electoral systems Public opinion and voting behaviour Elections and campaigns in Britain Quantitative research methods
Dr Scott Moser	Quantitative methods Agent based models Game-theoretic / social choice theoretic models of legislatures
Professor Andrew Mumford	Proxy Wars Counter-insurgency warfare Sub-state violence Anglo-American security and foreign policy
Dr Diana Popescu-Sarry	Discrimination and Structural Injustice Post-Truth and Deliberative Democracy Social Justice
Dr Vanessa Pupavac	International politics and south-east Europe International politics and literature Academic freedom
Professor Wyn Rees	US-European security cooperation since the end of the Cold War Contemporary British security and defence policy Anglo-American relations Cooperation among Western countries against terrorism
Dr Matthew Rendall	Causes of war and peace Climate ethics Intergenerational justice
Professor Bettina Renz	Russian foreign, security and defence policy Contemporary strategy and airpower
Dr Carole Spary	Gender, public policy, and state institutions Gender and political representation/participation Feminist politics of development/gender and political economy Democratic politics and political economy of development in India and South Asia more widely
Professor David Stevens	Liberal egalitarian political theory Rawlsian political philosophy The overlap of normative political philosophy and the philosophy of education
Dr Jonathan Sullivan	Chinese politics and foreign relations Taiwanese politics and cross-Strait relations Chinese political communications and media Digital politics, celebrity and popular culture Chinese football UK-China relations Any other projects more broadly located within Chinese and Taiwanese politics, foreign relations, the internet and media, issues surrounding China's expanding global presence and UK-Taiwan relations
Dr Simon Toubeau	The ways parties compete over the issue of regional authority and decentralisation Constitutional reforms in decentralised and federal multinational states Nationalist, independentist and sovereigntist parties and movements Regional-level policy-making and policy coordination, in particular in the face of crises (economic, public health, climate change related crises) The way voters hold parties in government at different levels responsible for policy outcomes
Professor Zoe Trodd	Modern slavery
Dr Siim Trumm	Elections and campaigns Representation and political participation Legislative politics and political parties Political communication British politics Eastern European politics
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 Ellen Watts	Developing qualitative-interpretive approaches to the study of politics Research methods in the PIR curriculum Political Communication, particularly questions of representation Politics and popular culture/entertainment
Dr Helen Williams	Immigration Comparative politics European politics

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