People

PhD Students

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	Gavin Barber	PhD Student	Political parties,Comparative European Politics,Organisation Studies	G.R.Barber@sms.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
	Ekaterina Braginskaia	PhD Student	Muslim minority representation,Comparative Politics,Russian Politics,Institutionalist approaches and social movement organistions,Migration and citizenship	ekaterina.braginskaia@ed.ac.uk
	Andrew Byrne	PhD Student		+44 755 489 3056 aqbyrne@gmail.com
	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@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
	Hilary Cornish	PhD Student	Insurgency & Counter-Insurgency,Armed Forces,International Relations of the Middle East,The Military in Global Politics,Gender & International Relations,Masculinities	h.a.cornish@sms.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	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
	Andrew Drever	PhD Student	Political philosophy,political philosophy methodology,Marxism,Rawlsianism,critical theory	a.w.drever-2@sms.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
	Alice Hague	PhD Student	Environment,Climate change,political theology,community activism,faith-based activism,advocacy,mobilisation,environmental politics,environmental ethics,UK,USA,Sweden	alice.hague(at)ed.ac.uk
	Ibrahim Sani	PhD Student	Elections,Political parties,Participation,Political representation,Civil Society and Democratization,participatory and deliberative democracy	I.Sani@sms.ed.ac.uk
	Yukinori Iwaki	PhD Student	political theory,Global justice,poverty,Environment,time and temporality,labour	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
	Laura Kandle	PhD Student	Islamic political thought,Islamism,Foreign Policy Analysis,IR and Middle East,Role Theory,State Socialization,Partisan Politics,Party Competition,Egyptian politics,Tunisian politics,Civil Society and Democratization
	Oliver Kearns	PhD Student	Secrecy,War and media,Debris,Covert state violence,Presence/absence,Drone strikes,Witnessing	O.B.Kearns@sms.ed.ac.uk
	Konstantinos Kostagiannis	PhD Student	classical realism,International Relations,International theory,nationalism	kkostagi(at)exseed.ed.ac.uk
	Hsinyen Lai	PhD Student	International Relations of the Middle East,Middle East Politics,Historical sociology,ideas and foreign policy,the Arab Left,the Arab Gulf states	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
	Shamiran Mako	PhD Student	International Relations,Comparative Politics,International Relations of the Middle East,Governing in divided societies,Iraq and the Middle East,Institutions and institutional change,State building,Ethnic conflict,Territorial politics	smako@wcfia.harvard.edu
	David Martí	PhD Student	Territorial Politics,Nationalism and National Identity,Federalism,Multiculturalism,Democracy,Political Parties,Multi-level governance	davidmarti70@gmail.com
	Sissela Matzner	PhD Student	Foreign Policy,Political parties,Responsibility,Narratives,Humanitarianism,Humanitarian intervention,Political violence,Conflict
	May Darwich	PhD Student	International Relations of the Middle East,International Relations,Middle East Politics,IR and the Middle East,Balance of power,identity politics,ideas and foreign policy,Political Islam	may.darwich@durham.ac.uk
	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	+44 744 911 5542 Oscar.Moreno@ed.ac.uk
	Wassim Mroue	PhD Student	Middle East Politics,IR and Middle East,Sectarianism,the Gulf region,Israeli-Palestinian conflict	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
	James Nyomakwa-Obimpeh	PhD Student		S1066747@sms.ed.ac.uk
	P. Trent Olsen	PhD Student	Asylum,Human rights,identity politics,LGBT studies	P.T.Olsen@sms.ed.ac.uk
	Nina Perkowski	PhD Student	EU border management,Frontex,Migration,Humanitarianism,border security,Human rights,critical migration research,European Union migration policy,irregular migration,critical security studies	n.perkowski@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
	Lorenzo Ranalli	PhD Student		l.s.ranalli@sms.ed.ac.uk
	Zoey Reeve	PhD Student	Social psychology	Z.Reeve@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	07857898712 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
	Elisabeth Schweiger	PhD Student	UN Security Council,War on terror,Discourse Theory,critical theory,International Law & International Relations,Law and Regulation	eschweig@exseed.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
	Charlotte Snelling	PhD Student	Political participation,Youth participation,Elections,Campaigning,Student movements,Turnout,Voting behaviour,Quantitative methods	c.j.snelling@sms.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,identity politics,Consociationalism	patrick.utz@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,critical realism,Social theory	s1668190@sms.ed.ac.uk
	Renske Vos	PhD Student	international law,Transnational Law,EU Crisis Management,EU military operations,International Security,governance,Practice Theory,legal theory,EU Bureaucracy,Migration,Libya	r.n.vos@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