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Lucy Abbott

Lucy Abbott
Name
Dr Lucy Abbott
Title
Career Development Fellow; Programme Director MSc International Relations of the Middle East; Co-director MSc International Relations of the Middle East with Arabic
Address
3.10 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0) 131 6508254
Email
Research Interests
IR and the Middle East, Regionalism, Public Sphere, The Gulf States, Jordan, Process Tracing
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/people/academic_staff/lucy_abbott

Guidance and Feedback Hours

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Qualifications

BA Hons, MA, PhD  University of Durham

Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

Biography

Before coming to Edinburgh, Lucy lectured in Middle East Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. 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.  

Current Research

Her current research project examines the role of information and communication technologies in state-building in the Arab states of the Middle East past and present. 

Publications