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Academic, Teaching, and Research Staff
- Professor Benjamin Lauderdale
Professor Lauderdale's research is focused on the measurement of political preferences from survey, voting, network and text data.
Room: 1.06, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: b.lauderdale@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr M. Rodwan Abouharb
Dr Rod Abouharb's research examines processes that affect the civility of relations between government and its citizens.
Room: 2.01, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 4922 (x24922)
Email: m.abouharb@ucl.ac.uk
- Ramota Adelakun
Email: ramota.adelakun.19@ucl.ac.uk
- Jente Althuis
Email: jente.althuis@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Valentina Amuso
Valentina teaches International Political Economy and her research addresses trade, technology and innovation.
Room: 2.07, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: v.amuso@ucl.ac.uk
- Molly Anders
Molly is currently researching public attitudes toward global poverty working alongside the Development Engagement Lab team.
Email: m.anders@ucl.ac.uk
- Nancy Daza Baez
Nancy’s research focuses on the analysis of intergenerational persistence of inequalities and assortative mating in developing countries.
Email: n.baez@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Kristin M Bakke
Professor Bakke’s research explores political mobilization, conflict dynamics, and wartime legacies.
Tel: +44 (0)203 108 9295
Email: kmbakke@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Lucy Barnes
Dr Barnes research focuses on the politics of economic policymaking in western democracies.
Room: 3.06, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: l.barnes@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Richard Bellamy
Professor of Political Science
Richard's research combines intellectual history, analytical legal and political philosophy and comparative politics.
Room: 3.15, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Email: r.bellamy@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Jack Blumenau
Room: 2.06, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 8878 (x28878)
Email: j.blumenau@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Inken von Borzyskowski
Dr. von Borzyskowski's research focuses on international organizations, democracy assistance, and election violence.
Room: 2.06 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: i.Borzyskowski@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Zeynep Bulutgil
Dr Bulutgil’s research focuses on political violence, ethnic mobilization, and religion and politics.
Email: zbulutgil@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Elisa Calliari
Dr Calliari's research explores the role of institutions and governance arrangements in supporting disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, and the emerging policy field of loss and damage associated with climate change impacts.
Room: 2.03, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: e.calliari@ucl.ac.uk
- Matilda Carter
Email: matilda.carter.15@ucl.ac.uk
- Nidhi Chaudhary
Nidhi’s research interests include policy evaluation, innovation and technology policy and innovation capability development and accumulation in firms in developing countries.
Email: nidhi.chaudhary@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Simon Chin-Yee
Dr Simon Chin-Yee’s research is on climate change, conflict and vulnerable populations on the African Continent.
Room: 2.08, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: s.chin-yee@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor David Coen
Professor Coen's research addresses EU business lobbying strategies and the consequences for EU institutional development.
Room: 3.01, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Tel: 0207 679 4967
Email: d.coen@ucl.ac.uk
- Conrad Copeland
Conrad’s research focusses on understanding the drivers of trade, both modern and historical.
Email: conrad.copeland@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Sarah Correia
Email: s.correia@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Helen Brown Coverdale
Helen’s research interests include the moral dimensions of interactions between individuals and the state.
Room: 2.08, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: h.coverdale@ucl.ac.uk
- Lorenzo Crippa
Lorenzo's research is in international political economy.
Email:l.crippa@ucl.ac.uk
- Katherine Crofts-Gibbons
Email: k.crofts-gibbons@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Kate Cronin-Furman
Dr Cronin-Furman studies mass atrocities and human rights.
Room: 3.02, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: k.cronin-furman@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Noele Crossley
Lecturer (Teaching) in International Organisations & International Security
Noele’s research interests are in the areas of international security and peace and conflict studies.
Room: 2.07, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: noele.crossley@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Cathy Elliott
Cathy's current work explores the politics of the British "new nature writing" which she argues promotes a politics of enchantment.
Room: 3.08, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 4990
Email: cathy.elliott@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Marc Esteve
Dr Esteve’s primary research interests have focused on understanding how individual characteristics influence decision making, specifically in interorganizational collaborations.
Room: 1.04, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: marc.esteve@ucl.ac.uk
- Thomas Fieldhouse
Research Fellow & Network Coordinator
Thomas leads the Constitution Unit's collaborations with other research-focused organisations and supports effective two-way engagement with relevant policymakers and commentators.
Room: 2.01, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Email: t.fieldhouse@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Jared Finnegan
Dr Finnegan studies the comparative political economy of the high-income democracies. His research investigates how governments, voters, and business understand and address long-term societal challenges, particularly climate change.
Room: 4.02, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Email: j.finnegan@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Fleming's research focuses largely on legislative politics, from both a British and comparative perspective.
Room: 3.01, 31Tavistock Sq.
Telephone: 020 3108 1879 (Internal: 51879)
Email: tom.fleming@ucl.ac.uk
- Ceri Fowler
Email: ceri.fowler@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Melanie Garson
Melanie's work focuses on the intersection of the impact of new and emerging technologies on the future of international relations and international security, as well as the effective negotiation and mediation of international agreements.
Room: 3.01, 31 Tavistock Sq.
- Dr Thomas Gift
Thomas's research and teaching interests include US politics, public policy, and applications of survey and experimental methods.
Room: G.04, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 31080 9274 (x59274)
Email: t.gift@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Noga Glucksam
Dr Glucksam’s research focuses on post-conflict transitions, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, reconciliation and transitional justice.
Room: 3.07, 29/30 Tavistock Sq
Email: n.glucksam@ucl.ac.uk
- Devran Gulel
Email: d.gulel@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Fergus Green
Dr Green's research traverses political theory, political economy, public policy and law. Much of his work is concerned with the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Room: 3.01, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Email: fergus.green@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Adam Harris
Dr. Harris’ research investigates and seeking to challenge the dominant narratives around ethnic voting.
Room: 1.04, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Tel: 020 7612 6927 (x06927)
Email: adam.s.harris@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Alexandra Hartman
Dr Hartman's research focuses on the political economy of institutions in fragile states.
Room: 2.05, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: alexandra.hartman@ucl.ac.uk
- Friederike Hartz
Friederike’s research is in the evolution and political dynamics regarding non-economic losses of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) as well as climate-related migration and climate security.
Room: 2.03, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: f.hartz@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Robert Hazell
Professor Robert Hazell’s research includes covers the whole of the constitutional reform agenda.
Room: 3.02, 29 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 0207 679 9349
Email: r.hazell@ucl.ac.uk
- Kaleigh Heard
Senior Post Graduate Teaching Assistant and Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Human Rights
Email: kaleigh.heard@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Kyle Herman
Dr Herman's research explores how multilateral environmental policies induce firms to innovate in climate and environmental technologies.
Room: 3.11, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: k.herman@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Tim Hicks
Dr Hick's studies a range of issues falling within comparative politics, public policy, and comparative political economy.
Room: 3.06, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Tel: 020 3108 9582 (x59582)
Email: t.hicks@ucl.ac.uk
- Bradley Hillier-Smith
Bradley teaches on the department's Human Rights modules.
Email: b.hillier-smith@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Dan Honig
Dr Honig's research focuses on the relationship between organizational structure, management practice, and performance in public agencies.
Room: 3.02, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 3108 1877
Email: dan.honig@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Gerda Hooijer
Dr Hooijer's research interests include comparative political economy, comparative social policy, and immigration.
Room: 3.07, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: g.hooijer@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Jeffrey Howard
Associate Professor of Political Theory
Dr Howard writes on a variety of moral challenges facing citizens and policymakers.
Room: 1.02, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 0203 108 6939
Email: jeffrey.howard@ucl.ac.uk
- Eleonora Iob
Eleonora’s research focuses on the psychosocial, behavioural, and biological risk factors for mental health problems in young people and adults.
Room: B09, 1-19 Torrington Place
Email: eleonora.iob.17@ucl.ac.uk
- Memta Ramchand Jagtiani
Memta's reseasrch explores the relationship between social media and mental health
Room: 1-19, Torrington Place
Email: memta.jagtiani.15@ucl.ac.uk
- Lisa James
Lisa works as a research assistant with Meg Russell on the Brexit, Parliament and the Constitution project.
Room: 2.02, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 3108 9809
Email: l.james@ucl.ac.uk
- Malte Jauch
My research interests lie at the intersection of normative political theory and economics.
Email: m.jauch@ucl.ac.uk
- Rory Jubber
Email: rory.jubber.09@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Roland Kappe
Dr Kappe’s research interests includes political economy, comparative politics, public opinion and elections, as well as education and social policy.
Room: 2.01, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 4725 (x24725)
Email: r.kappe@ucl.ac.uk
- Conor Kelly
Conor works at the Constitution Unit with Alan Renwick. His research is focused on the politics of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Room: 2.01, 31 Tavistock Square
Tel: 020 3108 6645
Email: conor.kelly@ucl.ac.uk
- Joe Kendall
Email: joe.kendall@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Anna Killick
Dr Killick’s work focuses on the UKRI funded mental models and political economy (MENMOPE) project which investigates contemporary communication and miscommunication, understanding and misunderstanding of the economy.
Room: 4.01, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Email: a.killick@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Maki Kimura
Dr Kimura's research include gender and racial equality, and social justice.
Room: 3.07, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: maki.kimura@ucl.ac.uk
- Charlotte Kincaid
Charlotte works across the Unit’s research areas with an aim to improve the real world impact of the Unit on policy-making and civil society.
Room: 2.01, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 3108 6108
Email: c.kincaid@ucl.ac.uk
- Julia Kreienkamp
Julia’s research focuses on the global governance of human rights, health and climate change.
Room: 3.11, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Tel: 0203 108 9290
Email: j.kreienkamp@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Sarabajaya Kumar
Dr Kumar's research interests are in accountability, governance, ehical leadership, intersectionality and equality.
Email: sarabajaya.kumar@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Kavita Maya
Dr Maya's research interests are in antiracist feminist politics, race, gender and spirituality, inequalities and power relations in everyday life.
Email: k.maya@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Rebecca McKee
Dr McKee’s research looks at diversity in parliament in understanding how representation work in different forums and who works for MPs.
Room: 2.01, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 3108 9279
Email: r.mckee@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Richard McMahon
Dr McMahon’s research concentrates on the ways people think about Europe and nations and how this has an effect on politics.
Room: 2.08, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: r.mcmahon@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Emily McTernan
Dr McTernan’s research defends the fundamental and pervasive significance of social norms within political philosophy.
Room: 4.02, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: e.mcternan@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Saladin Meckled-Garcia
Dr Meclad-Garcia’s research focuses on finding the links between adopting different ethical theories and the upshots that this has for what we do in practice.
Room: 2.03, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 4947
Email: s.meckled-garcia@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Nils Metternich
Dr Metternich's current research interests include authoritarian regimes, protests, and civil wars with a methodological focus on forecasting, spatial econometrics, and network analysis.
Room: 2.05, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 4974 (x24974)
Email: n.metternich@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Jonathan Monten
Dr Monten's research and teaching interests are in the areas of international relations, international security, and U.S. foreign policy.
Room: G.02, 31 Tavistock Square
Telephone: 020 3108 9296 (x59296)
Email: j.monten@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Luke Moore
Dr Moore’s research includes British politics, legislative behaviour and Eurosceptism.
Room: 2.02, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Email: luke.moore@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Paolo Morini
Dr Morini's research is concerned with quantitative and experimental approaches to public attitudes and opinions on poverty and inequality within rich and poor countries, and public support to tackle them.
Room: 2.03, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: p.morini.11@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Ali Naghieh
Email: a.naghieh@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Julie Norman
Dr. Norman’s research lies at the intersection of political resistance, human rights, and security in protracted conflicts, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.
Room: G04, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: julie.norman@ucl.ac.uk
- Amelia Odida
Amelia’s research focuses on UN international policy and practice.
Room: 101, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Email: amelia.odida.16@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Tom O'Grady
Dr O'Grady's research focuses on political economy, political behaviour and political parties in the UK and Europe.
Room: 2.06, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: t.o'grady@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Anna Oltman
Anna’s research is on the institutional and political sources of compliance with international human rights agreements focusing on the individualized systems through which countries process claims to asylum.
Room: 3.04, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: a.oltman@ucl.ac.uk
- Natasha Osben
Natasha’s doctoral research focuses on how societies ought to treat citizens that are unable to attain the same level of income-earning skills as other citizens.
Email: n.osben@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Marina Cino Pagliarello
Marina's research interests are in public policy, with a keen focus on social policies.
Room: 3.07, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: m.pagliarello@ucl.ac.uk
- Álvaro Passi-Solar
Álvaro's PhD research focuses on socioeconomic inequalities in healthcare access in Chile.
Room: 1-19, Torrington Place
Email: alvaro.passi.17@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Avia Pasternak
Dr Pasternak's research explores the collective responsibility of citizens for their state’s unjust policies, protests, and state’s wrongdoings.
Room: 3.02, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 3108 9301 (x59301)
Email: avia.pasternak@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Tom Pegram
Dr Pegram's research interests include the theoretical and empirical study of global politics, global policy implementation, and complex system dynamics.
Room: 3.02, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: t.pegram@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Denny Pencheva
Dr Pencheva's research interests are in the securitisation of migration; media, migration and post-truth, Brexit and neoliberalism.
Email: d.pencheva@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Patrick Pinkerton
Dr Pinkerton's research explores peacebuilding and post-conflict politics in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina and also debates around migration and refugee management.
Email: p.pinkerton@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Michael Plouffe
Dr Plouffe's research focuses on the interactions between political and economic institutions and the incentives, preferences, and activities of private-sector actors, such as firms.
Room: G.04, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 3108 9273 (x59273)
Email: michael.plouffe@ucl.ac.uk
- Anna Plunkett
Email: a.plunkett@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Lauge Poulsen
Professor Poulsen works on the theory and practice of economic diplomacy, with a particular focus on international business and international economic law.
Room: G.02, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 3108 9297 (x59297)
Email: l.poulsen@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Colin Provost
Dr Provost’s research focuses on regulatory governance and regulatory compliance on state and federal regulation in the United States.
Room: 3.06, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 4903
Email: c.provost@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Claudio Radaelli
A political scientist specialised in public policy, Claudio’s research interests include the policy process of the European Union, the effects of EU policies on the Member States, and the roles and usages of expertise.
Email: c.radaelli@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Alan Renwick
Professor Renwick's research focuses on the mechanisms through which citizens can engage in formal democratic politics and policy-making.
Room: 3.15, 29–30 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 0207 679 4987
Email: a.renwick@ucl.ac.uk
- Christopher (Kit) Rickard
Christopher's study focuses on how external states affect civil wars.
Email: christopher.rickard.14@ucl.ac.uk
- Julia De Romemont
Email: j.romemont@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Meg Russell
Professor Russell is responsible for most of the Constitution Unit's research on the British parliament.
Room: 2.03, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 3108 6967
Email: meg.russell@ucl.ac.uk
- Laura Saavedra-Lux
Email: laura.saavedra@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Behar Sadriu
Dr Sadriu’s current research interests lay in the domestic sources of foreign policy, secessionist movements, narrative theory and the politics of the post-Ottoman world.
Email: behar.sadriu.11@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr J-P Salter
Dr Salter's research interests include regulatory politics.
Room: G04, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: john-paul.salter@ucl.ac.uk
- Georgios Samaras
Georgios focuses on the rise of extreme-right politics in Greece during the years of the fiscal crisis.
Email: g.samaras@ucl.ac.uk
- Ekerette Ewang Sampson
Email: ekerette.sampson@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Luis Schenoni
Dr Schenoni's research explores the determinants of international conflict and its effects on the dynamics of state formation, with a particular focus on Latin America.
Email: luis.schenoni@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Christian Schuster
Dr Schuster’s research include people analytics and people management in government.
Room: 1.02, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Email: c.schuster@ucl.ac.uk
- Andrew Scott
Andrew's research interests are in public policy and energy and enviromental politics.
Room: 106, 36-38 Gordon Square
Email:andrew.scott@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Mike Seiferling
Mike's research is focused on the links between macroeconomics, finance, accounting, and political science.
Room: 3.01, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: m.seiferling@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Judith Spirig
Dr Spirig’s research studies the determinants and consequences of exclusionary immigration attitudes, judicial behaviour and quasi-experimental research designs.
Room: 3.04, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: j.spirig@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Sherrill Stroschein
Dr. Stroschein's research examines the politics of ethnicity in democratic and democratising states, especially democratic processes in states with mixed ethnic or religious populations.
Room: 2.10, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: s.stroschein@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Bugra Susler
Bugra’s research includes policy analysis, global conflicts and international cooperation in the Middle East.
Room: 2.07, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: B.Susler@ucl.ac.uk
- Philip Swatton
Email: p.swatton@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Adam Swift
After early work on the communitarian critique of liberalism, Adam's interest in combining political theory with empirical social science led to projects interrogating social mobility data, and people’s beliefs about social justice, from a normative perspective.
Room: 4.01, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 4945 (x24945)
Email: adam.swift@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya
Dr Tertytchnaya’s research involves how nondemocratic incumbents use propaganda and nonviolent repression to lower the costs of staying in power drawing evidence on Russia.
Room: 2.02, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: k.tertytchnaya@ucl.ac.uk
- Stephanie Thiehoff
Stephanie’s research interests are in the area of social statistics and demography with a focus on social, historical and spatial demography.
Email: s.thiehoff@ucl.ac.uk
- James Todd
James is interested in researching new forms of urban mobility, focusing on the use of shared micromobility.
Room: Chorley Institute, North-West Wing Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT
Email: James.Todd.15@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Lisa Vanhala
Professor Vanhala is interested in the politics of climate change and the socio-legal study of human rights and equality issues.
Room: 3.03, 31 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 4984 (x24984)
Email: l.vanhala@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Manuel Vogt
Dr Vogt's research focues on non-state actors and contentious politics in developing countries.
Room: 3.01, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: m.vogt@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Peter Warren
Dr. Warren's interests are in international climate policy and finance, business sustainability, energy policy, climate innovation and international development from a climate change perspective.
Room: 3.07 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: peter.warren@ucl.ac.uk
- Professor Albert Weale
Professor Weale's most recent book (Modern Social Contract Theory) explores the variety of forms modern social contract theory has taken.
Room: 4.02, 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 4993 (x24993)
Email: a.weale@ucl.ac.uk
- Blair Welsh
Blair’s research focuses on militants’ target selection, tactic selection, and use of terrorism in civil conflict.
Email: b.welsh@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr John Wilesmith
Dr Wilesmith's research interests are in contemporary analytical political theory, with a focus on social justice, egalitarianism, normative democratic theory and political economy.
Room: 3.07 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: john.wilesmith@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Eleanor Woodhouse
Dr Woodhouse’s research includes comparative politics, public administration and public policy.
Room: 3.04, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Email: eleanor.woodhouse@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Christopher Wratil
Dr Wratil's research interests are in democratic representation, political behavior and public opinion, with a special focus on politics in the European Union
Room: 2.02, 36-38 Gordon Sq.
Tel: 020 7679 9856 (x09856)
Email: c.wratil@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Nicholas Wright
Dr Wright's research sits at the intersection of EU foreign policy, comparative politics and international relations.
Room: 3.07 29/30 Tavistock Sq.
Email: nicholas.wright@ucl.ac.uk
- Nuve Yazgan
Nuve`s PhD research examines the Greek and Irish cases of reform implementation during the crisis and austerity. Her research interests include European Politics, Greek Politics, Policy Making and Greek-Turkish Relations.
Email: n.yazgan@ucl.ac.uk
- Dr Kalina Zhekova
Email: kalina.zhekova@ucl.ac.uk