Staff

School of Government and International Affairs

We are an inclusive and engaging department that educates students with high quality, research-led teaching and encourages them to display the highest levels of commitment to educational excellence. Supporting the students to consistently innovate is a central feature of what we do in order to ensure that graduates will have outstanding skills to take into the world of work.

Our aim is to produce graduates who are self-aware, reflective and ambitious global citizens.

Academic Staff

Name	Title
Dr Kavi Abraham	Assistant Professor in International Relations
Dr David Andersen	Associate Professor in US Politics
Professor Jutta Bakonyi	Professor in Development and Conflict
Professor Ilan Baron	Professor in International Political Theory
Dr Bahar Baser	Professor in Politics and International Relations
Dr Carly Beckerman	Associate Professor in the International Relations of the Middle East
Dr Jessica Begon	Associate Professor in Political Theory
Dr Oliver Belcher	Associate Professor in Human Geography
Dr Bleddyn Bowen	Associate Professor in Astropolitics
Dr Brian Carey	Assistant Professor in Political Theory
Dr Gordon Cheung	Associate Professor in International Relations of China
Dr Kodili Chukwuma	Assistant Professor in International Security
Professor Gidon Cohen	Professor of Politics
Dr Jack Copley	Assistant Professor in International Political Economy
Professor Olga Demetriou	Professor of Political Anthropology
Dr Maria Dimova-Cookson	Professor in Political Theory
Dr Tessa Ditonto	Associate Professor in Gender and Politics
Professor Anoush Ehteshami	Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Chair in International Relations
Dr Alice Ella Finden	Assistant Professor in International Politics
Professor Christopher Finlay	Professor in Political Theory and Head of School
Dr Anne Flaspoeler	Assistant Professor in International Relations
Dr Rob Geist Pinfold	Lecturer in Peace and Security
Dr Eugenia Giraudo	Assistant Professor in International Political Economy
Professor Omar Hammoud Gallego	Assistant Professor in Public Policy
Dr Cameron Harrington	Associate Professor in International Relations
Dr Graham Harrison	Associate Professor of International Political Economy
Dr Aung Hein	Assistant Professor in Public Policy
Professor Clive Jones	Professor of Regional Security
Dr Elizabeth Kahn	Associate Professor in Political Theory
Dr Jan Kandiyali	Associate Professor in Political Theory
Professor Stefanie Kappler	Professor in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
Dr Marzieh Kouhi Esfahani	Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
Professor Patrick Kuhn	Professor in Comparative Politics
Professor Roger Mac Ginty	Professor in Defence, Development and Diplomacy
Dr Lewis Mates	Associate Professor in Political Theory
Dr Rory McCarthy	Associate Professor In Politics and Islam
Dr Juraj Medzihorsky	Assistant Professor in Social Data Science
Dr Vittorio Mérola	Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics
Dr Kevin Miller	Assistant Professor in Political Theory
Dr Adrian Millican	Associate Professor of Comparative Political Science
Dr Javier Moreno Zacares	Assistant Professor in International Political Economy
Professor Emma Murphy	Professor of Political Economy
Dr Kyriaki Nanou	Associate Professor in European Politics
Dr Alexander Neads	Assistant Professor in International Security
Dr Moritz Osnabruegge	Associate Professor in Quantitative Comparative Politics
Dr Ferran Perez Mena	Assistant professor in IR of East Asia
Dr Will Plowright	Assistant Professor of International Security
Dr Anouk Rigterink	Associate Professor in Quantitative Comparative Politics
Dr Dennis Schmidt	Assistant Professor in International Relations
Professor Robert Schuetze	Global Policy Institute Co-Director
Dr Renu Singh	Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics
Dr Fanni Toth	Career Development Fellow in Comparative Politics
Dr Resul Umit	Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics
Dr Neil Visalvanich	Associate Professor in Political Science
Professor Nick Vivyan	Professor in Political Science
Professor John Williams	Professor in International Relations
Dr Chenchen Zhang	Assistant Professor in International Relations

Professors in Practice

Name	Title
David Ellery	Professor in Practice
Professor Helen Goodman	Professor in Practice
Suresh Nanwani	Professor in Practice

Research Staff

Name	Title
Dr Emil Archambault	Addison Wheeler Fellow
Dr Bernardo Lopez Marin	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Janina Pescinski	Postdoctoral Research Associate

Teaching Staff

Name	Title
Dr Francesco D'Alema	Teaching Fellow
Dr Richard Murphy	Tutor
Dr Simon Taylor	Teaching Fellow

Emeritus Professor

Name	Title
Professor Julia Stapleton	Emeritus Professor

Administrative Staff

Name	Title
Kelly Guy	Learning and Teaching Manager
Graeme Harris	Senior Research Administrator
Ashley Kirk	Operations Administrator
Tracy Marchbanks	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Katy Quigley	Department Manager
Elysia Scott	Learning and Teaching Administrator
Catherine Smith	Learning and Teaching Coordinator
Lauren Todd	PGR Co-ordinator
Paolo Vignali	Learning and Teaching Administrator

Associated Staff

Name	Title
Louise Haysey	Global Policy Institute Manager
Professor Thom Brooks	Associate
Dr Liam Devereux	Post Doctoral Research Associate
Dr Eva-Maria Nag	Global Policy Journal Executive Editor

Honorary & Visiting Research Fellows

Name	Title
Dr Olukayode Bakare	Visiting Fellow
Johann Luft	Honorary Research Fellow
James Page	Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Robert Schuett	Honorary Fellow
Dr Stephen Welch	Honorary Fellow

Research Students

Name	Title
Fahad Al Fahad	Doctoral Research Student
Abdulla Al Sabah	Doctoral Research Student
Shorooq Al Zaabi	Doctoral Research Student
Mr. Hassan Al-Asadey	Doctoral Research Student
Abdullah Al-Khonaini	Doctoral Research Student
Abdullah Al-Maani	Doctoral Research Student
Tania Alahendra	Doctoral Research Student
Faisal Alaliwi	Doctoral Research Student
Sarah Alareqi	Doctoral Research Student
Saleh Albulayhi	Doctoral Research Student
Amal Anaam	Doctoral Research Student
Michael Bates	Doctoral Research Student
Vanessa Bentil	Doctoral Research Student
Ahmet Borazan	Doctoral Research Student
Francesca Collier	Doctoral Research Student
Laura Cretney	Doctoral Research Student
Alex Crockett	Doctoral Research Student
Elisabeth de Vega Alavedra	Doctoral Research Student
Georgia Dimitriou	Doctoral Research Student
Riccardo Fabiani	Doctoral Research Student
Esther Garcia Monreal	Doctoral Research Student
Murad Geybulla	Doctoral Research Student
Junyi Hao	Doctoral Research Student
Azad Nebi Hasan	Doctoral Research Student
Charlie Hierons	Doctoral Research Student
?? Hou	Doctoral Research Student
Selma Imamoglu	Doctoral Research Student
Nannan Li	Doctoral Research Student
Jia Liu	Doctoral Research Student
Jiannan Luo	Doctoral Research Student
Thuli Montana	Doctoral Research Student
Nchimunya Muleya	Doctoral Research Student
Dina Naser	Doctoral Research Student
German Otalora Gallego	Doctoral Research Student
Cyrus Roedel	Doctoral Research Student
Johannes Sauerland	Doctoral Research Student
Liu Shi	Doctoral Research Student
Hannah Siddle	Doctoral Research Student
Phevos Simeonidis	Doctoral Research Student
Sidiqa Sohail	Doctoral Research Student
Mengqi Sun	Doctoral Research Student
Dan Wang	Doctoral Research Student
Jue Wang	Doctoral Research Student
Bryan Whitelock	Doctoral Research Student
Amanda Whitfield	Doctoral Research Student
Mudar Zahran	Doctoral Research Student
Wangyin Zhao	Doctoral Research Student