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
	Philipp Heinrich	PhD Student	European Identities, Public Attachment to the EU, Public Attitudes, Experimental Approaches	philipp.heinrich@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	Middle East Politics,Historical sociology,ideas and foreign policy,the Arab Left,the Gulf region	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
	Yifang Sun	PhD Student	political psychology,US foreign policy,Foreign Policy Analysis	s1563324@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