Staff in the Politics section of the Department are engaged in a diverse range of research topics, with the primary areas of interest being:
- European Energy Policy
- British Political History
- Participatory governance
- Religious political thought
- Agency and political behaviour
- The Foreign Policy of the United States
- Critical, post-colonial and post-structuralist theories in International Relations
- International Political Economy
- Comparative public policy
- The role of the Third Sector in the delivery of Public Services
- Russian and post-Soviet politics
- Asian politics
- Digital politics
Recent and Current Research Projects
Other recent publications
- Bussu, S., M. Lalani, M., Pattison, S. and Marshall, M. (2020) Engaging with care: ethical issues in Participatory Research. Qualitative Research.
- Bussu, S. and Tullia Galanti, M. (2018). Facilitating coproduction: the role of leadership in coproduction initiatives in the UK. Policy and Society. pp.1-21.
- Khrushcheva, O. and Poberezhskaya, M. (2016). The Arctic in the political discourse of Russian leaders: the national pride and economic ambitions. East European Politics. 32(4), pp.547-566.
- Khrushcheva, O. and Maltby, T. (2016). The Future of EU-Russia Energy Relations in the Context of Decarbonisation. Geopolitics. 21(4), pp.799-830.
- Schmid D (2018) ‘The poverty of Critical Theory in International Relations: Habermas, Linklater and the failings of cosmopolitan critique’ European Journal of International Relations 24:1
- Stockmann, Daniela, Ting Luo & Mingming Shen (2020) Designing authoritarian deliberation: how social media platforms influence political talk in China, Democratization, 27:2, 243-264, DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2019.1679771
- Stockmann, Daniela and Ting Luo. “Authoritarian Deliberation 2.0: Lurking and Discussing Politics in Chinese Social Media”, In Michael Delli Carpini (Ed.), Digital Media and Democratic Futures. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Politics Research Degrees
Opportunities are available to study for a PhD on a full-time / part-time basis and through distance learning.
Politics Research Degrees
