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Meet the team

Head of Department

Professor Amelia Hadfield

Dean International, Head of Department of Politics, Founder and Former Co-Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe (CBE)

Academic staff

Professor Daniele Albertazzi

Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Britain and Europe

Carmen Caruso

Research Fellow

Dr Laura Chappell

Senior Lecturer in European Politics

Dr Simon Curtis

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Dr Mustafa Demir

Associate Research Fellow

Professor Theofanis Exadaktylos

Professor in European Politics

Dr Ciaran Gillespie

Lecturer in International Politics/Director of Employability

Dr Nikolaos Gkotsis Papaioannou

Senior Lecturer in International Politics/ Senior Personal Tutor - Student Experience and Wellbeing; Politics Disability Coordinator; Politics Director of Communication.

Dr Simona Guerra

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics

Dr Jonathan Hall

Lecturer in Politics and International Relations

Dr Malte Kaeding

Senior Lecturer in International Politics

Dr Nicholas Kitchen

Senior Lecturer in International Relations; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Power Competition (CGPC)

Dr Alex Leveringhaus

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

Professor Emma Mayhew

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Education (interim) Professor of Pedagogy in Politics and International Relations

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