People
People
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Dr Sandra KrögerDirector of the Centre for European StudiesEuropean Union, European integration theory, Brexit, democratic theory, representation, civil society organisations |
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Dr David BensonPoliticsEnvironmental politics, policy and governance
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Dr Dario CastiglionePolitics
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Dr Sarah CooperPoliticsPublic policy and administration |
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Catherine DupréLawHuman dignity, human rights, Europe, constitutionalism, democracy, constitutional reform, constitution-drafting, Iceland |
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Mihail DanovLawCompetition Law, Competition Litigation, Private International Law |
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Dr Catherine DupréLawHuman dignity, human rights, Europe, constitutionalism, democracy, constitutional reform, constitution-drafting, Iceland |
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Professor Claire DunlopPoliticsComparative Public Policy, Epistemic Communities, Evidence-Based Policy, Impact Assessment, LGBT Policies, Knowledge Utilization, Policy Learning, Policy Failure, Regulation, Science and Public Policy, Theories of the Policy Process
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Professor Isabelle EngeliPoliticsComparative Public Policy; Agenda Setting and Policy Process; Policy Design and Implementation; Gender+/Sexual+ Equality Policy; Morality Politics and Policy; Religion and Policy in Europe; Science, Biotechnology and Policy; Comparison in Public Policy. |
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Dr Ekaterina KolpinskayaPolitics Political representation; Religion, ethnicity and politics; Legislative studies; Quantitaitve methods |
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Dr Irene Fernandez-MolinaPolitics International relations of the Global South, foreign policy analysis, constructivism, conflicts, North Africa, EU foreign policy. |
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Dr Athanassios GouglasPoliticsPolitical elites; elite circulation; legislative turnover; parliaments; legislatures; comparative parliaments; comparative legislatures; comparative politics; comparative public policy; European Union politics; European Union policy; Greek politics; Greek policy; political advis*rs; special advisers; ministerial advisers; ministerial cabinets; cabinets ministeriels; knowledge utilization; global governance. |
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Professor Alison HarcourtPoliticsAgenda setting, regulatory competition, soft governance, Europeanisation, policy convergence, internet governance, standard developing organisations, standards, digital rights, self-regulation, soft governance, transnational activism, lobbying, citizenship. |
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Dr Lise Esther HermanPoliticsPolitical Parties; Partisanship; Right-wing Populism; Democratic Theory; European Politics |
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Samantha HurnAnthropologyAnthrozoology, human-animal interactions, morethanhuman anthropology, animal rights activism |
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Professor Oliver JamesPoliticsPublic policy including: citizen-state relations (especially participation in policy-making and implementation), evidence and evaluation in the policy process, public regulation, and digital technology and public services |
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Professor Joasia LuzakLawConsumer protection, Consumer behaviour, Online contracts, Sustainable consumption, Disclosure duties, Product liability and safety, Air passenger rights, Package travel, Misleading advertisements, Unfair contract terms, Platform economy |
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Professor James MarkHistoryHistory of c.20th globalization; anti-imperialism; transnational activism; race; whiteness; development. History of Communism in Eastern Europe, especially social, cultural and global approaches. Political and social memory; uses of the past. Oral history. |
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Michail MelidisPolitics |
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David MonciardiniBusiness SchoolBusiness regulation, Sustainability reporting, Circular economy, Innovation and value creation, Business and human rights,Sustainable finance |
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Dr Alice MoseleyPoliticsBehavioural Public & Administration, Political Participation, Civic Engagement, Environmental Policy |
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Alexandris PolomarkakisLaw Socio-Legal Studies; Labour Law & Social Rights; EU Law & Policy; Judicial Decision-making; Social Policy-making |
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Dr Tim ReesHistoryModern Spanish history: the Republic, civil war and Franco regime; the agrarian history of Spain and modern Europe; civil wars; revolutions and revolutionary movements; the Communist International and international communism, security services and anti-communism before 1945. |
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Dr Lamprini RoriPoliticsComparative politics, political behaviour, political communication, party politics, elections, campaigns, social-democrats, far right, far left, radicalisation, social media, emotions |
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Dr Oscar Fitch-RoyGeographyEnvironmental politics and public policy |
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Dr Isabelle RuedaLawImpact assessments, Private Law Harmonisation, Europeanization of Private Law, Comparative Law, Private International Law, Transnational Commercial Law |
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Professor Duncan RusselPoliticsPublic policy, environmental policy, climate policy, policy coordination, science-policy interations, policy appraisal |
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Dr Julia SchmidtLawEuropean External Relations Law and Policy, Common Security and Defence Policy, the Law of International Organisations, Regional Security, Responsibility to Protect, the Use of Force, Economic Sanctions |
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Dr Florian StoeckelPoliticsComparative politics, European politics, and political psychology |
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Harry WestAnthropologySocio-cultural anthropology: political anthropology; agrarian social history; the anthropology of food. |
Tourya Guaaybess
2021
Tourya Guaaybess received funding from the University of Lorraine for Tourya’s 6 month visit to the Centre of European Governance at Exeter University in 2021 working on communications policy in Mediterranean states.
Kübra Çağlar Hekimoğlu
June 2021 – December 2021 (this was postponed due to COVID)
Department of International Relations, Ataturk University
Monica Auteri
Jan - June 2020
Monica is currently Assistant Professor at the Università Degli Studi Roma. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and a Doctoral Degree in Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Social Phenomena, from the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” Her research interests are at the intersection of the fields of political economy, public choice, healthcare policy and the political economy of healthcare.
Libby Maman
March – June 2020
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Heath Pickering
June 2020 (on the C1-PAWS project)
Heath began his PhD in January 2019 at the Public Governance Institute. He previously worked as a political science researcher at the University of Melbourne. For his PhD project, Heath is examining the rise of political advisers as important third actors beween politics and administration, which by historical standards, is a recent phenomenon in the Westminster system. His case studies include Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. These countries, since the 1970s and 1980s, have seen consistent growth and influence of political staff.
Dr. Jörn Ege
Jörn Ege is a post-doctoral researcher at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. His research addresses the autonomy of international bureaucracies. Honorary Research Fellow from December 2017 onwards.
Daria Gritsenko
Visiting researcher, February 2017
Daria Gritsenko is a postdoctoral fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki) and a partner at the Finnish Center of Excellence “Choices of Russian Modernization”.
Pierre Van Wolleghem
Visiting researcher, September 2015 - March 2016
Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem obtained a PhD in June 2017 at the Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. Since 2012 he has been working for the ISMU Foundation.
Tamara Jovanovic
Visiting researcher, September - December 2012

Tamara Jovanovic was a PhD fellow at Roskilde University in Denmark, when she visited the CEG. She is now lecturer at Roskilde University.
Christoph Ossege
Visiting researcher, September - December 2012
Christoph Ossege was a PhD student at BIGSSS, a joint Graduate School of Bremen University and Jacobs University when he visited the CEG. He now works at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.
Esteban Arribas Reyes
Visiting Researcher, June - August 2012
Esteban Arribas is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Alcalá, where he teaches several courses, including Comparative Government and Politics, Public Policy Analysis and Media Policy Regulation.
Dolors Canals Ametller
Visiting Researcher, May-July 2012
Dolors Canals Ametler is currently a Senior Lecturer in Administrative Law in the Public Law Department at the University of Girona.
Auri Pakarinen
Visiting Researcher, April - July 2012
Auri Pakarinen was finishing her PhD at the University of Eastern Finland when she visited the CEG. More about her on her website.
Sandra Kröger
Marie Curie Fellow, September 2011 - September 2013
Sandra Kröger joined the politics department at Exeter as a Marie Curie fellow in September 2011. She is now senior lecturer and a member of the CEG.
Rosa María Fernández Martín
Visiting Researcher, July - September 2011
a visiting researcher at the Tremough Campus of the University of Exeter, thanks to a research award obtained with the project titled “EU policies and climate change. Consequences. Comparative study between Spain and United Kingdom”. She is now a lecturer at the University of Chester.
Andrea Pritoni
Visiting Researcher, April - June 2011
Andrea Pritoni was a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Political Sciences “Roberto Ruffilli” (University of Bologna at Forlì), when he visited the CEG. He is now a research fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence.
Amie Kreppel
Visiting Researcher, November 2010
Amie Kreppel is a Jean Monnet Chair (ad personam) and serves as Director of the University of Florida’s Title VI funded Center for European Studies (CES) and the European Union funded Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science.
Marie-Christine Fontana
Visiting Researcher, October 2009 - September 2010
Marie-Christine Fontana was a PhD student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland when she visited the CEG. Her research focused on the impact of European integration on domestic policy-making processes in small consensual states, in particular on corporatist policy-making in Belgium and Switzerland.
Alessandro Natalini
Visiting Researcher, October 2009 - January 2010 & August 2010
Alessandro Natalini was Assistant Professor of Political Science at University Parthenope in Naples when he visited the CEG. He is now member of the Italian National Authority against Corruption.
Erica Melloni
Visiting Researcher, August - September 2009
Erica Melloni was a Ph.D candidate in the “Istituzioni, Amministrazioni e Politiche Regionali - IAPR” course held by the Universities of Pavia and Milan at the time she visited the CEG. She is now Director at the Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale in Milan.
Oliver Fritsch
Visiting Researcher, May - September 2009
Oliver Fritsch was a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Aarhus, Denmark at the time he visited the CEG. He is now part of the faculty of Environment, School of Geography at the University of Leeds.
Cristina Cullell March
Visiting Researcher, April - May 2009
Cristina Cullell March was a Ph.D. candidate at the International University of Catalonia, Spain when she visited the CEG. She is now researcher at the VUB's SMIT Research Centre.
Martino Maggetti
Visiting Researcher, 2007-2008
Martino Maggetti is an associate professor in political science at the Institute of Political, Historical and International Studies (IEPHI) of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. More about him on his website.