People

PhD Students

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	Talal Alkhadher	PhD Student	Middle East Politics,State formation,Secularism and secularity,Islamic political philosophy,Arab political thought,Modernity	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,Migration and development,Chinese Foreign Policy,Intrastate Migration Policy,women and politics	Emilia.Belknap@ed.ac.uk
	Sayra van den Berg	PhD Student	peacebuilding,Transitional justice,Peace and conflict	S.VandenBerg@ed.ac.uk
	Francesco Bertoldi	PhD Student	Territorial politics,Nationalism and Devolution,Elections,Ethnic conflict,Northern Ireland,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	Europeanization,European Union,Identity formation,Globalizationsation and personal life,urban sociology,identity politics,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
	Victor Gigleux	PhD Student	International Relations,Foreign Policy,Small States,European studies,International peace-keeping operations,EU external relations,Role Theory,Foreign Policy Analysis	V.A.Gigleux@sms.ed.ac.uk
	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
	Alexandra Remond	PhD Student	Britain,Canada,federal states,identity politics,nationalism,Politics,Comparative Politics,British-EU politics,Scotland,Political parties,Territorial Politics,Nationalism,Nationalism and National Identity,Scottish Independence Referendum,Quebec-Scotland comparisons,Political identities and citizenship,Election campaigning,Electoral Systems in Divided Societies,Electoral and Referendum behaviour,Montenegro,the Balkans	a.remond@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,British politics,UK's EU relations,UK foreign policy,Scottish politics,Europeanisation,Devolution,Public opinion,Public policy,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,Federalism,Nationalism and Devolution,Party politics,Multi-level party politics,European Union,Europeanization,Language policy,Consociationalism	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