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Meet the team

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 Research 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.

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Dr Simona Guerra

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics

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Dr Jonathan Hall

Lecturer in Politics and International Relations

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), Deputy Chair (FASS), University Ethics Committee 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

Barbara Serra

Barbara Serra

Visiting Professor in Practice

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Dr Jamie Shea

Visiting Professor in Practice

Nick Wright CBE

Dr Nick Wright

Visiting Researcher

Postgraduate research students

Hadiza Adamu Fika

Postgraduate Research Student

Dr Nicole Boyce

Postgraduate Research Student

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Giada D'Andrea

PhD Candidate in Politics

Emmanuel Ogueri Ibekwe

Doctoral Researcher

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Margaryta Khvostova

Postgraduate Research Student

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Darill Liew

Postgraduate Research Student

Patricia Rehus

Postgraduate Research Student

Christian Turner

Postgraduate Research Student

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Panos Vasileiadis

Postgraduate Research Student

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Bianka Vida

Doctoral Researcher in Politics