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Head of Department

Professor Amelia Hadfield
Dean International, Head of Department of Politics, Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe (CBE)
Academic staff

Dr Laura Chappell
Senior Lecturer in European Politics

Dr Theofanis Exadaktylos
Senior Lecturer in European Politics

Dr Ciaran Gillespie
Teaching Fellow in International Politics/Placement and Exchange Coordinator

Dr Nikolaos Gkotsis Papaioannou
Teaching Fellow in International Politics/ Politics Director of Communication; Senior Personal Tutor; Student Experience and Wellbeing; PGR Seminars & Events Lead.

Dr Simona Guerra
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics

Dr Malte Kaeding
Lecturer in International Politics

Dr Nicholas Kitchen
Senior Lecturer in International Relations; Co-Director, Centre for International Intervention

Dr Alex Leveringhaus
Lecturer in Political Theory; Co-Director, Centre for International Intervention

Professor Emma Mayhew
Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Professor of Pedagogy in Politics and International Relations

Dr Alia Middleton
Lecturer in Politics, Co-Director of The Centre for Britain and Europe (CBE) and Undergraduate Admissions Tutor

Dr Roula Nezi
Lecturer in Political Science

Professor Simon Usherwood
Professor of Politics

Dr Steven Van Hauwaert
Lecturer
Research staff

Dr Evgenia Iliadou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Visiting staff

Prsr Michael Aaronson
Honorary Visiting Professor

Susan Scholefield
Visiting Professor

Dr Jamie Shea
Visiting Professor
Postgraduate research students

Hadiza Adamu Fika
Postgraduate Research Student

Olga Franczak
Doctoral Researcher

Emmanuel Ogueri Ibekwe
Doctoral Researcher

Julie Kolokotsa
Doctoral Researcher

Ellis Mallett
Postgraduate Research Student

Lucy Mcdermott
Postgraduate Research Student

Graziella Piga
Doctoral Researcher

David Southgate
PhD student

Panos Vasileiadis
Postgraduate Research Student

Bianka Vida
Doctoral Researcher

Nuve Yazgan
Postgraduate Research Student