Guidance and Feedback Hours

• From Sept 10th 2018: Wednesdays, 10:00 - 12:00.

Programme Director MSc International Relations of the Middle East

Programme Director MSc International Relations of the Middle East with Advanced Arabic

Co-ordinator The Contemporary Middle East Series

Research Day: TUESDAYS during Semester 2 2019

Guidance and Feedback Hours: Wednesdays 10-12 

Teaching (2018-19)

• Gulf Politics (Course Organiser)
• Middle East in International Relations (Lecturer)
• Comparative Politics in a Globalised World (Lecturer)

Qualifications

PhD, St. Chad's College, University of Durham

MA International Relations, Ustinov College, University of Durham

BA (Hons) Modern Languages, University College, University of Durham

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 

Personal Biography

Lucy joined PIR in 2017 from the University of Oxford where she lectured in Middle East Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations. During her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted fieldwork in the Middle East.  

Publications

• (2018) "Civil Resistance and the Arab Spring" International Affairs Vol. 94 No.1 January 
• (2017) “International Democracy Promotion and Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa" Democratization Pre-published online 9th Feb 2017
• (2016) "The Conceptual Public Sphere and its Problems: Habermas, Political Action and the Arab States" Journal of International Political Theory Vol. 12 (3): 365-379 

If you are interested in being supervised by Lucy Abbott, please see the links below for more information: