Senior Research Fellow

Cleo.Davies@warwick.ac.uk

Room: E1.04

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Taking stock of the European Political Community ahead of the UK's Blenheim SummitLink opens in a new window

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With expertise in European politics, EU decision-making, and the role of international organisations in transnational governance, I currently work on the UK-EU relations in a comparative perspective as part of the ESRC funded project 'Living with the Neighbours' under the UK in a Changing EuropeLink opens in a new window Programme.

I take a keen interest in knowledge exchange activities between researchers and decision-makers and regularly produce policy-relevant output and present research to stakeholders and decision-makers.

Before academia, I worked for over five years in European politics and policy making in Brussels.

Reports

• Report from the Living with the Neighbours Observatory: The UK and its neighbours: views across Europe
• Cleo Davies and Jannike Wachowiak, UK-EU Relations Tracker, UK in a Changing Europe, published quarterly (2024 Q1, 2023 Q4, 2023 Q3, 2023 Q2, 2023 Q1)
• Rethinking Policy Impact: Promoting Ethical and Effective Policy Engagement in the Higher Education Sector (October 2022) with Professor Christina Boswell and Professor Kat Smith.
• Regulation After Brexit Revisited, Hussein Kassim, Cleo Davies, Sean Ennis, Andrew Jordan (eds.), October 2022

Papers

• Towards a Progressive Geopolitical EU: Principles and Recommendations, Foundation for European Political Studies (FEPS), Brussels, May 2024
• Davies C. and Kassim, H. How does the EU organise and manage its relationship with the UK post-Brexit? (10 October 2023), Explainer for UK in a Changing Europe
• Davies, C. (2023) ‘The impact of Brexit: Polity, politics, policy’, Journal of European Integration, 45:6, 963-969, (open access)
• Davies, C. and Kassim, H. ‘UK Bilaterals with EU member states since Brexit’, April 2023
• Davies, C. (2023) 'Negotiating the future: Understanding the absence of a UK-EU agreement on civil justice cooperation in family law', UK in a Changing Europe Research Paper, 04/2023
• Davies, C. and Kassim, H. ‘Institutions and governance of the EU-UK relationship’, UKICE working paper, May 2022
• Davies, C. and Kassim, H. ‘Unfinished Business? The Trade and Cooperation Agreement, UKICE working paper 2022, May 2022
• Cleo Davies and Hussein Kassim (2021) ‘Conclusions’, in Kassim, S. Ennis and A. Jordan (eds.) UK Regulation after Brexit, February 2021

Podcast series

Hussein Kassim and Cleo Davies speak to guest authors Michel Barnier, Philip Cunliffe, Stefaan De Rynck, Peter Foster, Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed, Robert Tombs, and John Erik Fossum, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Chris Lord.

In each episode, Hussein Kassim and Cleo Davies ask guest experts to explore how the UK has re-positioned itself in Europe and the world since it left the EU on 31 January 2020.

After Brexit: What has changed?

In each episode, Hussein Kassim and Cleo Davies ask guest experts to explain policy issues, describe what has changed and why, and to discuss the future prospects for UK divergence.

Negotiating Brexit: views from the Member StatesLink opens in a new window

In each episode, Hussein Kassim and Cleo Davies speak to a guest from an EU member state about how their country capitals responded to the UK referendum vote and approached the negotiations (Germany, Spain, France, Poland, Lithuania & Estonia, Denmark, The Netherlands and Ireland).

Memberships

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh SCOTLAND-EUROPE INITIATIVE series of workshops
• Member of The Academic Association for European Studies Association (UACES) since 2016
• Member of the Europa Institute, University of Edinburgh (former steering group member) and former Co-convenor of the Edinburgh University Europa Research group (2016-2018)
• Member of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) Young Academic Network (FEPS YAN)

Some more background

I recently finished a project as a Research Associate on a joint Royal Society of Edinburgh - University of Edinburgh project on Rethinking Policy Impact and also teach at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Social and Political Science.

Education

• PhD in Politics, University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science. Title: ‘Instrumentalism, Power Maximisation, or Legitimation? Understanding the European Commission’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis, 2008-10’

• Master’s Degree in European and International Studies (2008-2010), Institute for European Studies, University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France (First)

• Degree in History, University Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, France (2:1); ERASMUS (2006-2007), Humboldt University Berlin