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Politics and International Studies

PhD supervision

Current supervision
  • Francesca Melhuish (start date: 2016) (co-supervision with Dr Vicki Squire)

    Title of project: Leading or leaving? Exogenous shocks and elite Euroscepticism in the UK

  • Xiaojing Ye (start date: 2016) (co-supervision with Prof Shaun Breslin)
    Title of project: The International involvement of subnational governments: a case study of China

Former students

  • Dr (Moch) Faisal Karim (completion date: 2018) (co-supervision with Dr Lena Rethel)
    Title of project: Contested Foreign Policy: Status-Seeking and Indonesia’s Regional and Global Engagement


Prospective PhD students

I am interested in supervising PhD students in a broad range of areas in EU politics and European and International Political Economy, including :

  • The politics of trade and investment agreements;
  • Constructivist political economy;
  • The role of emotions in political economy;
  • The politics of quantification;
  • Civil society contestation of globalisation;
  • The political economy of Brexit.