European Studies research group

The European Studies Research Group exists to facilitate discussion and collaboration between researchers focusing on the institutions and policies of the European Union, one or several European countries, and/or the European region and identity. We meet on a regular basis, both as a discussion group that focuses on recent and relevant publications, and on an ad hoc basis to present work-in-progress.

For further information, please contact the group convenors George Kyris and Bruno Carvalho at g.kyris@bham.ac.uk and b.d.s.carvalho@bham.ac.uk

Activities

Selected Group meetings and workshops

Selected Open Events

Members

Dr David Bailey

Protest, critical political economy and contemporary capitalism

Dr Nicholas Barker

armed conflict and international security, conflict management, qualitative research methods and research ethics, particularly in relation to field research in conflict-affected areas.

Dr Karin Bottom

Local governance, local democracy and the local political / management interface

Dr Verena K. Brändle

Digital democracy; social media and politics; European politics; border and migration studies; political communication

Dr Mwita Chacha

politics of regional integration and the consequences of political and economic interdependence on domestic security and conflict

Dr Licia Cianetti

Democracy and institutional change; democratic regression; inclusion and exclusion from policymaking processes; cities and local democracy

Dr Charlotte Galpin

European and national identities; European public sphere and media; Euroscepticism, EU citizenship and social movements; The role of Germany or Britain in Europe; Brexit; Gender and feminist approaches to these topics

Dr Tim Haughton

Contemporary politics of Central and Eastern Europe; Political campaigning; Party politics; Electoral politics

Dr Julian Hoerner

interaction of electoral behaviour and political institutions in shaping representation, accountability, and the quality of democracy in Europe; politics and policies of the European Union and the impact of historical legacies on contemporary politics

Dr Deema Kaneff

Resources and Social Change; Postsocialist transformations and global capitalism; Property relations; Markets and moralities; Transnational migration, Social exclusion and inequalities. (Europe, Eastern Europe, Bulgaria and Ukraine)

Dr George Kyris

International conflict, conflict management and resolution; International organisations, especially the European Union; State recognition; Statehood and sovereignty; Secession; unrecognised/ de facto states

Dr Huw Macartney

International or Comparative Political Economy; Banking and financial market governance; Globalisation, and historical materialism.

Dr Julian Pänke

Comparative foreign policy analysis, German and East Central European politics; EU foreign policy, the impact of history on foreign policy making and specifically how tensions between nation- and empire building shape a state’s external behaviour

Professor Graham Timmins

External relations and foreign policy role of the European Union with specific reference to EU-Russia and German-Russian relations

Professor Kataryna Wolczuk

Politics of Russia and post-Soviet countries; EU’s Eastern policy, Russia’s policy towards the post-Soviet states; Regional integration in the post-Soviet space; Nationalism and national identities (across Europe and Eurasia)

Professor Stefan Wolff

Ethnic conflict, civil war, post-conflict state-building; Geopolitics and great-power rivalry; Central Asia, South Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Western Balkans, Middle East & North Africa.

Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis

European Union politics and policies; Migration in Europe; European politics

PhD doctoral researchers

Jaroslava Barbieri

Russian foreign policy, Ukrainian politics, De facto states, Conflict studies, Eurasian security, Democratisation in the EU’s Eastern Partnership countries, Disinformation, The political use of history, History of ideas

Yuxiang Lin

The politics of Central and Eastern Europe, especially Bulgaria

Hana Mosavie

feminist political economy, decolonisation, power and culture

Orkhan Naghiyev

European Union Foreign and Security Policy, Europeanisation, Foreign and security policies of Central and Eastern European countries, EU-Russia and EU-Ukraine relations

Jonathan Pettifer

Norm Contestation and the European Union

Bruno de Seixas Carvalho

Ontological security, maritime security, and the UK's foreign policy after Brexit