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,State formation,Arab political thought,Modernity,Moderation Theory,Social movements,Secularism,Islamic political thought,Egypt	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
	Emilia Belknap	PhD Student	Gender & International Relations,Gender Theory,Scottish Politics,Nationalism and National Identity,Devolution and constitutional change in the UK,Critical Feminism,Feminist Theories and Research Practices,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,Statelessness,Territorial Rights,The Ethics of Migration	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,public policy,Comparative Politics,Big Data Analytics,big data,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
	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
	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,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 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
	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
	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
	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
	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,Aesthetic experiences,Peace and conflict,participatory research,Arts-Based Research Methods,Theatre & Performance,political emotions,Intercultural Communication,Identity and Alterity,creative learning,creative ethnography,International Relations,International Peace and Security,Interdisciplinary Research	Ioana.Popescu@ed.ac.uk
	Alec Ross	PhD Student	Social and Political Theory,Refugee studies,Applied ethics,Human rights,refugees/migration and displacement;,marketisation,Immigration and asylum policy,Forced migration	(+44) (0)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
	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,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
	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	+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 Change,Role Theory	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 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	Critical Social and Political Theory,Political Philosophy,Methodology in political theory,Exclusion,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