People

PhD Students

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	Talal Alkhadher	PhD Student	Middle East Politics,State formation,Arab political thought,Modernity,Moderation Theory,Social movements,Secularism,Islamic political thought	T.Alkhadher@ed.ac.uk
	Emilia Belknap	PhD Student	Gender & International Relations,Gender Theory,gender and political institutions,Scottish Politics,Nationalism and National Identity,Devolution and constitutional change in the UK,Critical Feminism,Feminist Theories and Research Practices,North Korea,Chinese Foreign Policy,Voting behaviour,political behaviour,Comparative Political Behavior	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,Territorial Rights,Immigration,Global Justice,International Relations	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
	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
	Yazmin Morlet Corti	PhD Student	privacy,online privacy,Cyberspace as political space,Political Culture,policy prefrences,public policy,Comparative Politics,Big Data Analytics,big data,Science and technology,data protection,behaviour,attitudes,Quantitative Analysis	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
	Louis Fletcher	PhD Student	History of International Political Thought,Genealogical Critique,Political Realism,Critical Theory,Democratic Peace,Philosophy of History,Peace Research,Utopianism	louis.fletcher@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,EU External Relations,European Security,French Postcolonial Relations,State Formation	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 Loera Gonzalez	PhD Student	Mexico,Role Theory,Foreign Policy,Domestic sources of Foreign Policy,Geopolitics,Mexico-U.S. relations,Autonomy in Foreign Policy,the structure/agency problem	+44 7712 128579 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
	Yukinori Iwaki	PhD Student	Social and Political Theory,Political Philosophy,Global justice,poverty,Environment,labour,time,Climate change	s1000816@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	+44 (0) 7796 174778 p.d.jahnke@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	s1619342@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
	Nataliya Muzyka	PhD Student	EU external relations,EU-third countries interactions,Europeanization,identity politics,European Union,International Relations,Ukraine,National Identity,Poland,transition studies,post-Soviet politics,Social network analysis,Elites	n.muzyka@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
	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
	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
	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	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
	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	+44 (0) 749 156 0106 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
	Patrick Utz	PhD Student	Territorial politics,Party politics,Europeanization	patrick.utz@ed.ac.uk
	Kim Vender	PhD Student	Climate Change Policy,International Responsibility,Chinese Foreign Policy,Foreign Policy Roles	kim.vender@sms.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 I.Versolmann@sms.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	Political Theory,Political Philosophy,Feminist Theory,Gender and Intersectionality,Critical Theory,Subjectivity and Politics of the Self,Theories of Oppression and Complicity,Neoliberalism and subjectivity,Resistance and solidarity	s1666266@sms.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