Research themes
Entitled ‘Open Doors and Building Bridges’, our work programme is structured around four constitutive project strands, with one cross-thematic category of European/Britain activities.
Gender and identity
Exploring the origins, impacts and consequences of rapidly shifting identity politics and gender politics in Europe and the UK on current and future integration.
2020/21 events
- Two day Winter School on interdisciplinary approaches to European studies
- ‘European Security and Diplomacy’ undergraduate module
- Annual UACES-CBE PhD student forum.
Dr Laura Chappell
Research theme lead
Dr Venetia Evergeti
Principal Teaching Fellow and Director of Learning and Teaching
Dr Simona Guerra
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Professor Amelia Hadfield
Dean International, Head of Department of Politics, Founder and Former Co-Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe (CBE)
Dr Evgenia Iliadou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Noreen O'Meara
Associate Professor (Reader), Human Rights, European and Environmental Law. Co-director: Surrey Centre for International and Environmental Law (SCIEL).
Electoral behaviour
Researching the science of elections in Europe and Britain to discover the sources of both regressive tendencies, worsened by image and social media, and progressive trends of transparency, thematic advocacy (e.g. climate change) and youth-based interest.
2020/21 events
- CBE-IEA UK-EU forum on electoral behaviour.
Researchers
Dr Alia Middleton
Research theme co-lead
Dr Roula Nezi
Research theme co-lead
European and British security and defence
Investigating the material and policy-based risks and opportunities arising within EU defence and security initiatives, and post-Brexit impacts on UK-EU security and defence structures, with member state findings from Poland, Germany, the UK, France and Belgium.
2020/21 events
- CBE-UCL Roundtable on European and British security and defence.
Teaching
- New final-year undergraduate module entitled ‘European Security and Diplomacy.’
Researchers
Professor Amelia Hadfield
Research theme lead
Dr Evgenia Iliadou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
De-Europeanisation and re-Europeanisation
A two-fold exploration of the profound risks of ‘tipping points’ in key European phenomena. This includes populism, disenfranchisement and critical challenge in forms of European dis-integration including Euroscepticism, and the surprising new opportunities to reconnect, re-establish and re-communicate within and between EU politics and between the EU and the UK as post-membership entities.
Researchers
Professor Theofanis Exadaktylos
Research theme co-lead
Professor Simon Usherwood
Research theme co-lead
Professor Theofanis Exadaktylos
Research theme co-lead
Professor Simon Usherwood
Research theme co-lead
Dr Venetia Evergeti
Principal Teaching Fellow and Director of Learning and Teaching
Dr Simona Guerra
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Dr Noreen O'Meara
Associate Professor (Reader), Human Rights, European and Environmental Law. Co-director: Surrey Centre for International and Environmental Law (SCIEL).
Cross-thematic outputs
A range of entirely new teaching activities, research outputs, deliverables and events, tying together the substantive themes of identity/gender, security/defence, and de/re-Europeanisation.
Researchers
Dr Nikolaos Gkotsis Papaioannou
Research theme lead
Dr Simona Guerra
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
Centre for Britain and Europe research
With an extensive range of research topics, the Centre for Britain and Europe aims to reframe Britain and European issues by drawing on wide interdisciplinary expertise and insights.