People
PhD Students
Name | Title | Research Interests | Contact Information | |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
Monalisa Adhikari | PhD Student | Indian security and foreign policy,Chinese Foreign Policy,International peacebuilding,Fragile and conflict affected states,Political settlements,International Engagement,Emerging powers,Fragile States,South Asia,Nepal,Myanmar | s1349960@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Talal Alkhadher | PhD Student | Middle East Politics,Arab political thought,Moderation Theory,Social movements,Secularism,Islamic political thought,Egypt,Arab Liberalism | T.Alkhadher@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Camilo Ardila Arévalo | PhD Student | Peace and conflict,Theories of democracy,Comparative constitutionalism,just war theory,ethics,Peace and reconciliation processes | Camilo.Ardila@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Salvatore FP BarillĂ | PhD Student | EU external relations,European Union,China,EU-China,World Trade Organization,International Trade,foreign investment,Dispute Resolution,International Relations,International Political Economy,China and East Asia,ideas and foreign policy,International Law & International Relations,European Union Law,international dispute settlement | salvatore.barilla@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Emilia Belknap | PhD Student | Voting Behaviour,Electoral and Referendum behaviour,Devolution and constitutional change in the UK,Feminist Theory,Gender and Politics,Feminism,Feminist Theories and Research Practices,Political Behaviour,Mixed methods,Quantitative Methods,Qualitative Methods,Experimental Methodologies,Surveys,Focus Groups,Gender Theory | Emilia.Belknap@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Francesco Bertoldi | PhD Student | Territorial politics,Elections,Ethnic conflict,Northern Ireland,Power-sharing agreements,Electoral Systems in Divided Societies,Identity Politics,Social Identity Theory,Discourse Analysis,Ethnicity and Identity | f.bertoldi@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Benedikt Buechel | PhD Student | Political Theory,The Ethics of Migration,Statelessness,Human Rights,Sovereignty,Territorial Rights,Self-Determination,Feminist Theory | Benedikt.Buechel@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Thomas Charman | PhD Student | Gender,gender and international relations,gender based violence,sexual violence,Gender and conflict,Masculinities,Militarised Masculinities,Sexual violence against men,Feminism,Poststructuralism,Discourse Analysis,Frame Analysis | tcharman@exseed.ed.ac.uk, s1460585@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Kitty Chou | PhD Student | Counterterrorism,Terrorism,Political violence,political psychology,Research Ethics,qualitative and mixed methods research projects using in-depth interviews | +44 (0) 744 951 4023 cchou@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Christina Dineen | PhD Student | Contemporary political theory,Political philosophy,Applied ethics,Ethics and morality,Resource allocation,Well-being,Bioethics | Doctoral Researcher christina.dineen@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Joseph Conrad | PhD Student | climate justice,corporate ethics,collective agency,social ontology,political theory,moral philosophy,environmental ethics,sustainability | joseph.conrad@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Yazmin Morlet Corti | PhD Student | privacy,online privacy,Cyberspace as political space,Political Culture,public policy,Comparative Politics,Big Data Analytics,Science and technology,data protection,behaviour,attitudes,Quantitative Analysis,policy preferences | Yazmin.Morlet@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Cleo Davies | PhD Student | International Organisations,European studies,The politics of financial market supervision and regulation,International Political Economy | cleo.davies@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Kathy Dodworth | PhD Student | Theories of Legitimacy,Social capital,Foucault,state-society relations,NGOs and Development,Non-state actors,Bourdieu,Ethnography,Tanzania,African studies | kathy.dodworth@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Adrian Favero | PhD Student | European Union,Urban Governance,Return / transnational migration,Europeanisation and Globalisation,Central Eastern Europe | A.Favero@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Ricardo Ribeiro Ferreira | PhD Student | State-media relations,Journalism and democracy,Media Capture,Disinformation,Populism,Social media and politics,Brazil | ricardo.rf@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Louis Fletcher | PhD Student | louis.fletcher@ed.ac.uk | |
![]() |
Isabella Gabrovsky | PhD Student | Britain,ethnography,identity politics,Migration and development,minority rights,Multiculturalism,nationalism,Policy,National Identity | Isabella.Gabrovsky@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Barbara Gaweda | PhD Student | gender,post-communism,post-Soviet politics,Central Eastern Europe,Feminism,Feminist institutionalism,Ukraine,Discourse Theory,Feminist Research,Postcolonialism,Europeanization,nationalism,Inequality,Feminist theory/research,Sexuality,discourse analysis,Gender & intersectionality | B.J.Gaweda@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Joe Gazeley | PhD Student | Mali,Foreign Policy Analysis,European Security,French Postcolonial Relations,State Formation,Political History | Joe.Gazeley@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Victor Gigleux | PhD Student | International Relations,Small States,European studies,International peace-keeping operations,EU external relations,Role Theory,Foreign Policy Analysis | +44(0)7842555104 victorgigleux14@gmail.com |
![]() |
Omar Alejandro Loera | PhD Student | Mexico,Foreign Policy,Domestic sources of Foreign Policy,Geopolitics,Mexico-U.S. relations,Autonomy in Foreign Policy,the structure/agency problem,Role Theory | +44 7712128579 o.loera@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Alice Hague | PhD Student | Environment,Climate change,community activism,faith-based activism,advocacy,mobilisation,environmental politics,environmental ethics,UK,USA,Sweden | alice.hague(at)ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Philipp Heinrich | PhD Student | European Identities, Public Attachment to the EU, Public Attitudes, Experimental Approaches | philipp.heinrich@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Jessica E. Hewkin | PhD Student | Politics of immigration,Policy construction,American politics/history/political development,Feminist Research | jessica.hewkin@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Yukinori Iwaki | PhD Student | Social and Political Theory,Political Philosophy,Global justice,poverty,Environment,labour,time,Climate change | yiwaki@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Marc S. Jacob | PhD Student | Elections,organizations and institutions,Political parties,Quantitative Research,Comparative Political Behavior | M.S.Jacob@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Patrick Jahnke | PhD Student | Socially Responsible Investment (SRI),Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR),International Political Economy,Stakeholder Theory,Financial Intermediation,Corporate Governance,Fiduciary Capitalism,Agency Theory,Shareholder Voting Rights | +49 172 342 7533 p.d.jahnke@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Camilo Jara-Villalobos | PhD Student | Administrative Law,Administrative Sanctions,Politics of transparency and accountability,Freedom of Information,Corruption and Anti-Corruption Studies,Information Commissioners,Quantitative Research Methods | c.jara-villalobos@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Beth Katz | PhD Student | Social inclusion,Politics of immigration,Adaptation,Interdisciplinary research,Multi-level governance,Adaptive governance,Diversity,Inequality,Innovation,Immigration,Cross-sector collaboration,Coproduction,Mixed methods | beth.katz@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Jaida Casakit Keaveney | PhD Student | Middle East Politics,Iraq,State building,Sectarianism,health care systems,policy and interventions,Islamic political thought | J.C.Keaveney@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Thijs Keulen | PhD Student | Critical Social and Political Theory,Democratic Theory,Work and Labour,Critical Phenomenology,Marxism,Power and Subjectivation,Capitalism and democracy | T.Keulen@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Hsinyen Lai | PhD Student | Historical sociology,Gramsci and Marxist Theory,ideas and foreign policy,International Relations of the Middle East,the Gulf Arab states,the Arab Left,nationalism and capitalism,China's Middle Eastern policy | s1264771@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Yue Liu | PhD Student | International Relations,Regional Security,International Law of the Sea,Maritime Disputes,Geopolitics,China and East Asia,Southeast Asia,International Order Transformation,US-China/Asia relations | liu.yue@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Nokwazi Makanya | PhD Student | Public budgeting,Legislative behaviour,Political economy of budget processes,South African politics,Institutions and institutional change | N.Makanya@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Ritumbra Manuvie | PhD Student | Climate change Migration,Governance,Public Policy,Institutions and institutional change,South Asia,Borderlands,Wicked Problems | s0978558@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Sissela Matzner | PhD Student | Foreign Policy,Political parties,Responsibility,Narratives,Humanitarianism,Political violence,Conflict,Military intervention | |
![]() |
Oscar Moreno-Martinez | PhD Student | Technology and Innovation Studies,Colombian Armed Conflict,Military-Technical Change,Insurgency & Counter-Insurgency,United States Foreign Security Policy,War Studies | oscar.moreno@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Wassim Mroue | PhD Student | Middle East Politics,IR and Middle East,Sectarianism | s1675407@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Cera Murtagh | PhD Student | Post-conflict societies,Peace and conflict,Ethnicity and Identity,Nationalism and National Identity,Political parties,Social movements,gender politics | 0131 651 3785 c.e.murtagh@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Martyna Napierska | PhD Student | documents,Archives,Community Development,migrant integration,political theory,local governance and grassroots democracy,digital culture,Digital ethnography,Social Power | s1532691@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Tanita Jill Poeggel | PhD Student | Immigration and asylum policy,political theory,asylum seekers and refugees,critical migration research,Migration and citizenship,Social movements,critical theory,national identity,Memory politics | s1655289@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Ioana Popescu | PhD Student | (re)humanisation,Peace and conflict,participatory research,Arts-Based Research Methods,Theatre & Performance,political emotions,Ethics,interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches,Arts and politics | Ioana.Popescu[at]ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Ivar Vargas Rivas | PhD Student | International Security,Artificial Intelligence and Robotics,International Humanitarian Law,Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems,Pierre Bourdieu,Ontological Security Theory,Chile,International Relations,AI ethics,Disarmament,ethnography | ivar.vargas@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Alec Ross | PhD Student | Social and Political Theory,Refugee studies,Applied ethics,Human rights,marketisation,Immigration and asylum policy,Forced migration,Ethics and markets | (+44) 738 068 0708 Alec.Ross@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Sofiane Sahnoun | PhD Student | identity politics,national identity,Citizenship and belonging | 07778144310 s1368857@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Anthony Salamone | PhD Student | European integration,European Union,Brexit,Scottish-European relations,UK-EU relations,Scottish politics,Devolution,British politics,UK foreign policy,Public opinion,Public policy,Europeanisation,Comparative politics | A.M.Salamone@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Fiona Sarwar | PhD Student | Human rights,Foreign Policy,Scotland,Sub-state diplomacy,Paradiplomacy,Feminist Foreign Policy,Scottish Government,Women,Peace and Security,Peace and conflict,Scottish Nationalism,Rights-based Approaches,Devolution and UK constitution | F.J.Sarwar@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Andrew Scott | PhD Student | energy politics,energy security,business regulation,environmental politics,Public policy,Comparative Politics,policy networks,policy community,Politics of oil | s0823307@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Talia Shoval | PhD Student | Just war theory,Environmental ethics,Justice and non-human animals,Moral philosophy,Political theory,Political philosophy,Non-anthropocentrism,Applied ethics | Talia.Shoval@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Judith Sijstermans | PhD Student | Political parties,European Union,Policy learning,Europeanization,Nationalism,Regionalism,Socialization,Policy networks,Policy transfer,Multi-level governance,British Politics | judith.sijstermans@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Lukas Slothuus | PhD Student | Political theory,Political philosophy,Marxism,Critical theory,Resistance,Contentious politics,Political affect,Radical democracy,Civil disobedience | Lukas.Slothuus@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Saskia Smellie | PhD Student | Politics of Migration and Asylum Policy,Responsibility-Sharing,European Union,Foreign Policy,Role Theory | 07530 882515 Saskia.Smellie@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Deanna Soloninka | PhD Student | State-minority relations,International organisations,European institutions,Nationalism and national identity,Minority rights,post-Soviet politics,Comparative politics | d.soloninka@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Pietro Stefanini | PhD Student | Political violence,Settler Colonialism,Humanitarianism,War,Militarism,Anticolonial Resistance,International Relations,Middle East Politics,Israel/Palestine,Refugee studies | P.A.Stefanini@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Damian Strycharz | PhD Student | Russian foreign policy,Foreign policy analysis,Role theory,Post-Soviet space | damian.strycharz@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Yifang Sun | PhD Student | political psychology,US foreign policy,Foreign Policy Analysis | s1563324@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Consuelo Thiers | PhD Student | political psychology,Foreign Policy Analysis,Latin American Foreign Policies,At-a-distance personality assessment of political leaders | consuelo.thiers@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Larissa Toal | PhD Student | Feminism,Nationalism,women's and social movements,Critical Discourse Analysis,Gender and conflict | s1269429@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Alexis Montambault Trudelle | PhD Student | Political economy,The Gulf States,Sovereign Wealth Funds,Institutions and institutional change,Middle East Politics,State building,Financial Markets,Political Economy of Oil,Rentier States | A.Montambault-Trudelle@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Patrick Utz | PhD Student | Territorial politics,Party politics,Europeanization | patrick.utz@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Kim Vender | PhD Student | Climate Change Policy,Chinese Foreign Policy,Role Theory,Global leadership,Ecosystems-based adaptation and mitigation,International Responsibility of Emerging Powers,Blue Carbon,Development Cooperation | kim.vender@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Ingmar Versolmann | PhD Student | European Union,EU Energy Policy,New Institutionalism,EU external relations,European Intergration,Energy politics,Energy security | +44 (0) 778 774 4004 iversolm@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Gisli Vogler | PhD Student | political theory,Social theory,Political memory and historical injustice,Theories of democracy,Power,the structure/agency problem,Critical Social and Political Theory | s1668190@sms.ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Cat Wayland | PhD Student | Critical Social and Political Theory,Political Philosophy,Methodology in political theory,Critical epistemologies,politics of knowldge production,Decolonisation,Intersectionality | cwayland@ed.ac.uk |
![]() |
Luba Zatsepina-McCreadie | PhD Student | Nuclear Weapons,Identity,Non-proliferation,Post-structuralism,Discourse Analysis,Gender,Cold War,IR and Security studies | L.Zatsepina@sms.ed.ac.uk, lzatsepi@exseed.ed.ac.uk |