International politics
EU and Europe
Prof Rainbow Murray
Rainbow is Professor of Politics and an expert on representation, political institutions, gender and diversity, with particular expertise in French and British politics. Her primary research interests lie in political representation, gender and politics, candidate selection, French and comparative politics, political parties, parliaments and elections.
She is currently Principal Investigator on the €2m Horizon Europe-funded MENSREP project, a comparative study across the UK, US, France, and Norway which will investigate the representation of men in political bodies.
Prof Stijn van Kessel
Stijn is Professor of Comparative Politics. He is co-author of Populist Radical Right Parties in Action. The Survival of the Mass Party and The Failure of Remain: anti-Brexit activism in the United Kingdom and author of Populist Parties in Europe: Agents of Discontent?
Stijn’s main research interests are in populism, the radical right, Euroscepticism and the wider politics of European integration. More generally Stijn's expertise includes elections and party competition, party system change in Europe, and democratic backsliding. His recent research has focused on the organisation and internal life of populist radical right parties, the consequences of Brexit, and pro-European social movements.
Prof Paul Copeland
Paul is Professor in Public Policy. His research focuses on the political economy of European integration and the UK’s relationship with the EU.
Paul's expertise includes EU employment and social policy; the Single Market and economic governance; new modes of governance and soft law; EU policy negotiations; Brexit and Britain's relationship with the EU; the role of the British media in constructing Euroscepticism; and European integration.
Dr Cristina Juverdeanu
Cristina is a Lecturer in Politics and International Politics. Her research focuses on migration and citizenship in the EU and in the post-EU UK contexts.
Cristina researches the evolving relationship between the UK and the EU, with a particular emphasis on the end of the free movement and the implementation of the new immigration framework in the UK. Her recent work has focused on the EU Settlement Scheme and the post-Brexit intersectional vulnerabilities of immigrant women.
Dr Corina Lacatus
Corina is a Senior Lecturer in Global Governance. She is an expert in international co-operation and global governance, focusing on the influence that international organisations like the United Nations and the European Union have on domestic institutions, politics, and societies.
Her research has explored different areas of policy-making and practice, including the governance of care for migrants, social exclusion and vulnerability, south-to-north and south-to-south migration, human rights institutions, peace agreements and human rights after conflict, and corruption control. She also has expertise in political communication, focusing on the formation and strategic uses of electoral rhetoric to advance populist political agendas.
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Prof Tim Bale
Tim is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary and one of the most respected commentators on British politics. He is an expert in political parties and their membership, grassroots campaigning and the politics of immigration.
He is the author of The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation and co-author of The British General Election of 2024.
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Dr Ksenia Northmore-Ball
Ksenia is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics. Her research interests span comparative politics and political behaviour particularly in the context of Eastern European new democracies as well as Russia.
Her research applies advanced statistical methods to areas including voter turnout, political and economic inequality, authoritarian legacies, and political socialization in new democracies. She has expertise in voter turnout and political socialization in the context of regime change in post-communist Eastern Europe and other new democracies, religion and politics in Eastern Europe and the perceptions of the left and right in new democracies.
African politics
Dr Innocent (Ib) Batsani-Ncube
Ib is a Lecturer in African Politics and author of China and African Parliaments.
Ib's expertise includes China and the Global South; African regional organisations and electoral integrity; parliamentary spacial politics and parliamentary strengthening in Africa; the politics (and political history) of nuclear energy projects in Africa; and the politics of sport in the Global South. His current research focuses on electoral integrity peer review mechanisms within African regional organisations and the politics of nuclear energy projects in Africa.
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- Email: i.ncube@qmul.ac.uk
Prof Sophie Harman
Sophie is Professor of International Politics with a specific interest in global health, African agency, film and visual methods, and gender politics. She is author of eight books including Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women's Health.
Sophie has expertise on: global health governance; the politics of COVID-19; the 2014/15 Ebola outbreak; HIV/AIDS; film-making as method; African agency and the Tanzanian state, and women and gender in global health. Sophie’s research draws on her extensive fieldwork experience in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Zambia, and the global health and international political economy hubs of Geneva, Washington DC and New York.
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Dr Peter Brett
Peter is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics. He is co-author of Africa and the Backlash Against International Courts (with Line Engbo Gissel) and author of Human Rights and the Judicialisation of African Politics.
His expertise includes the politics of Sub-Saharan Africa, international law, legal sociology, the politics of rights, and the history of international relations. He specialises in Southern and (Francophone) West Africa, but is currently preparing a biographical project investigating the international career of the Irish lawyer and statesman Seán MacBride.
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- Email: p.brett@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Keren Weitzberg
Keren is a Senior Lecturer and Fellow of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. Working at the intersection of science and technology studies, migration and border studies, and critical race studies, she examines problematics related to mobility, biometrics, and fintech. She has over 15 years of experience carrying out archival research, fieldwork, and interviews in Kenya.
Keren has expertise in borders and migration, digital technologies (e.g., digital identity systems and fintech), the political history of East Africa, climate technology, degrowth, and low-carbon economies.
Asia
Prof Lee Jones
Lee is Professor in International Politics. He specialises in political economy and international relations, focusing on the politics of intervention, security, and governance, with a particular interest in social conflict and the transformation of states. Much of his work focuses on Southeast Asia and China.
Lee regularly advises the British and other governments and civil society organisations and has often appeared in the national and international media.
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- Email: l.c.jones@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Yunyun Zhou
Yunyun is a Lecturer in Politics and Gender. She is a political sociologist with expertise in gender and authoritarianism, representation, political institution, nationalism, and the politics of affects.
Yunyun has expertise in topics including gender lobbying and legislation, substantive political representation, institutional change, state feminism, and authoritarianism, particularly in East Asia and China.
Dr Nivi Manchanda
Nivi is a Reader in International Politics. Her book, Imagining Afghanistan: the History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge, examines the ways in which Afghanistan has been represented and repeatedly intervened in from the nineteenth century until 2001.
Her research interests include the histories of colonial intervention in South Asia and the Middle East and the role of capitalism in perpetuating racial hierarchies globally, the ways in which knowledge is produced, and the raced, classed and gendered nature of both ‘expertise’ and ‘common-sense’.
Prof Ray Kiely
Ray is Professor of International Politics.
He has published in the following broad areas: the Politics of the World Economy; Right wing political theory; Politics, Knowledge and the Culture Wars; development and post-development theory; East Asian politics; Caribbean politics; comparative industrialisations with particular reference to East Asia; neo-liberalism and structural adjustment; globalisation and development; international labour, labour standards and international trade unionism; international capital flows; poverty and inequality; US imperialism and globalisation; neo-conservatism and liberal imperialism; cosmopolitanism; anti-globalisation and the ‘global justice movement; China and globalisation.
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- Email: r.kiely@qmul.ac.uk
Middle East
Prof Christopher Phillips
Chris is Professor in International Relations. He is author of four books, including Battleground: Ten Conflicts that explain the New Middle East, and The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the New Middle East.
His research focuses on the international relations of the Middle East, with his most recent projects exploring the role of external intervention in conflicts in that region. Before then, his work centered on the Syria conflict and its impact on neighbouring states and the wider Middle East.
Latin America
Dr Holly Eva Ryan
Holly is a Reader in International Relations and co-director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean. She is author of Political Street Art: Communication, Culture and Resistance in Latin America, which examined the relationship between street art and social change in Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina.
Holly's expertise includes visual and sensory politics; practical aesthetics; artistic activism; the political practice(s) of non-state/civil society actors including artists, social movements and NGOs; participatory and arts based research; Latin America and the Caribbean (especially Nicaragua, Colombia, the Anglophone Caribbean and Guyana); paradiplomacy, twinning and community linking; friendship in International Relations; and theories and practices of solidarity.
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- Email: h.ryan@qmul.ac.uk
Prof Javier Sajuria
Javier is Professor of Comparative Politics. His research interests include political behaviour, comparative politics, social media and politics, and political methodology.
Javier's expertise includes party members and campaigning; parliamentary candidates (selection, campaigning, localism, independent candidates); polling and public opinion; populism and the impact of misinformation.
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Dr Felipe Antunes de Oliveira
Felipe is a Senior Lecturer in Development and Global Governance. His research intersects Latin American political economy and International Relations theory.
Felipe has expertise in Latin American political economy, the history of economic ideas in the Global South, global economic governance, development studies and International Relations theory. He is particularly interested in dependency theory, decolonial theory, and uneven and combined development.
Dr Emilia Simison
Emilia is Lecturer in Latin American Politics. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of policymaking and policy change. Using a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods, her research analyses how political institutions across regime types shape the extent to which citizens and interest groups influence policymaking, and how that affects policy outputs.
Emilia's expertise includes political economy, political institutions, authoritarian politics, Latin American politics and public policy.
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Dr Rowan Lubbock
Rowan is a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of Development and author of Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty.
Rowan's research focuses on the agrarian dynamics of international relations. His expertise includes the politics of food sovereignty within Venezuela and the Latin American regional institution, the ALBA-TCP, the historical sociology of Latin American regionalism more broadly, and the historical formation of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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US politics
Dr Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson is a Senior Lecturer in US Politics and Policy and author of The End of the Second Reconstruction. Richard's research focuses on race and democracy in the United States.
He has expertise on elections, partisanship, voting behaviour, judicial power, policymaking, federalism, civil rights, and political violence. His recent work has focused on ethnic minority voting patterns and the Republican party; ‘political sectarianism’ and US partisanship; a comparative analysis of ‘busing’ in the US, UK, and France; and British and American abortion politics.
Richard also has expertise in UK politics, especially Labour Party history, Britain and the European Union, and the British constitution.
Dr Tom Wraight
Tom is a Lecturer in Political Economy. He has expertise in Political Economy and in particular the politics of industrial strategy, the politics of the United States and American conservatism.
Tom's recent work has focused on US industrial policy and US economic nationalism in historical perspective.
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