Selected Group meeting and workshops

The Europeanisation of Foreign Policy in Poland and Hungary, 2024. The group met to discuss Orkhan Naghiyev's (POLSIS) PhD research. 

Going in Different Directions? The 2023 Elections in Poland and Slovakia and their Aftermath, 2024'. The group met to discusss Tim Haughton’s co-authored work (with Pomorska, Malová and Deegan-Krause) that eventually appeared in the JCMS Annual Review

'Ontological (In)Security in Europe: Theories, Methods, and Approaches' workshop, 2024. Co-organised with the International Relations Security Theory Group and European Studies Research Group and lead by Bruno Sowden-Carvalho, Marco Vieira and George Kyris.

European Studies Research Group workshops, 2022 and 2023. Members of the group met to exchange feedback on their work in progress.  

Participatory Populism: Online discussion forums on mainstream news sites during the European Parliament election campaigns, 2018. The group met to discuss Charlotte Galpin's (co-authored with Hans-Jörg Trenz) paper in progress, 2016, which was published shortly after. 

Bridging Research Agendas Workshop, 2016. The group hosted a day-long workshop of scholars from the University of Birmingham and outside, including Hartmut Behr (University of Newcastle), Richard Caplan (University of Oxford), Stefanie Kappler (Durham University), George Kyris, Julian Pänke and Argyro Kartsonaki, University of Birmingham. Amongst, the workshop resulted in the following publication

European elites and the narrative of the Greek crisis: a discursive institutionalist analysis, 2016. The group met to discuss Sotirios Zartaloudis' (co-authored with Dimitris Papadimitriou, Adonis Pegasiou) paper in progress, which was published shortly after. 

Beelines, Bypasses and Blind Alleys: Theory and the Study of the European Union, 2016. The group met to discuss Tim Haughton's paper in progress, which was published shortly after. 

The normative imperialism of the EU’s ENP, 2015. The group met to discuss Julian Pänke's paper in progress, which was published shortly after. 

Broadening Approaches to the European Crisis: History, Theory, Responses, 2014. The workshop aimed to bring together scholars currently working on the European/Eurozone crisis – based both within and outside of the University of Birmingham.  

European Politics During the Crisis: Developing Research Agendas workshop, 2013 

Bringing the Policy Back In: A Substantive Agenda for the New Union, 2009. Event co-organised with with the European Commission Representation in the United Kingdom and Advantage West Midlands.