Professor Graham Timmins

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Professor of International Politics

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6345
Email: g.timmins@bham.ac.uk

Address: Department of Political Science and International Studies
School of Government
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Timmins is a specialist on European integration with a particular focus on the external relations and foreign policy role of the European Union.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Russian and Soviet Studies, Portsmouth Polytechnic, 1986.
MPhil Soviet and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, 1991.
PhD in Political Science, University of Huddersfield, 1997.

Biography

1991-1995 - Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics, University of Huddersfield.
1995-2000 - Senior Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics, University of Huddersfield.
1997-2000 - Head of Department: Dept of History, Politics and Languages, University of Huddersfield.

2000-2006 - Senior Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics, University of Stirling.
2002-2008 - Head of Department: Department of Politics, University of Stirling.
2006-2012 - Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, University of Stirling.
2010-2012 - Director of Learning and Teaching, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling.

2012-2015 - Director of Education, School of Government and Society, University of Birmingham.
2012-2021 - Senior Lecturer in International Politics, School of Govt and Society, University of Birmingham.
2015-2019 - Director of Education, College of Social Sciences.
2021-2023 - Reader in International Politics
2022-Present - Postgraduate Director (Taught Programmes) in the University of Birmingham Graduate School.
2023-Present – Professor of International Politics, School of Government, University of Birmingham.

Teaching

Debates in World Politics
The European Union and Global Politics

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Timmins is available to supervise in areas related to the external relations and foreign policy role of the European Union with specific reference to EU-Russia and German-Russian relations.

Research

Professor Timmins is a specialist on European integration with a particular focus on the external relations and foreign policy role of the European Union. He has published on EU-Russia and German politics, and is currently working on a study examining the political development of the EU’s policies towards its eastern neighbourhood since the end of the Cold War.

Publications

Building a Bigger Europe: European Union and NATO Enlargement in Comparative Perspective (co-author Martin A.Smith), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

Uncertain Europe: Building a New European Security Order? (co-editor Martin A.Smith), London: Routledge, 2001.

Russia and Europe in the Twenty-First Century: An Uneasy Partnership (co-editor Jackie Gower),London: Anthem, 2007 and revised edition in 2009.

The Politics of the New Germany(co-authors Simon Green, Dan Hough and Alister Miskimmon),London: Routledge, 2008.

The European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood (co-editor Jackie Gower), London: Routledge, 2010.

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