Tim Haughton joined the University of Birmingham in 2003 having previously taught at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), Sheffield University and Comenius University in Bratislava. Initially appointed as Lecturer in the Politics of Central and Eastern Europe, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006 and was promoted again to Reader (Associate Professor) in European Politics in 2012. He became the Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies in August 2012.

He has held Visiting Fellowships at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Institute of International Relations in Prague and was a 2011-12 Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC.

He has published widely on the politics of Central and Eastern Europe in a number of journals including Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Comparative European Politics, Electoral Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Party Politics, Political Studies Review, Politics and Policy and West European Politics. He is the author of Constraints and Opportunities of Leadership in Post-Communist Europe (2005) and the editor of Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Does EU Membership Matter? (2011). His research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation.

Dr Haughton has good links with the policy making community, having briefed four successive British Ambassadors/Heads of Mission to Slovakia and given presentations at the State Department in Washington DC.

• Introduction to the European Union: History, Politics and Institutions (1^st year undergraduate)
• Political History of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20^th Century (final year undergraduate)
• 'Returning to Europe': Nation, State and Europe in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe (final year undergraduate)
• Democracy, Nationalism and Integration in Central and South East Europe' (MA/MSc)
• He also contributes to various team-taught modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Dr Haughton supervised Dr Bernd Rechel's ESRC funded PhD thesis, 'Minority Rights in Post-Communist Bulgaria' (passed with no corrections March 2006), Dr Brigid Fowler's ESRC-funded thesis examining EU accession and party politics in Hungary, Dr William Westwater's thesis on regional legislatures in Russia,  Dr Magdalena Skrybant's AHRC-funded thesis exploring the relationship between the intellectuals and workers in the Solidarity movement in Poland, Dr Lara Scarpitta's ESRC-funded thesis examining Romanian accession to the EU, Dr Richard Connolly's thesis exploring the relationship between economic structures and political change in post-communist Europe, Dr Odeta Barbullushi's thesis examining Albania's Euro-Atlantic orientation and Dr Mike Adkins’s thesis exploring party based Euroscepticism.

He is supervisor/co-supervisor of theses exploring:

• the EU and ethnic conflict resolution in the Western Balkans 
• energy politics in new EU member states
• active EU Citizenship and the Impact of Identity Discourses in the UK, Germany and Poland
• corruption and progress reports during Bulgaria and Romania's access to the EU

He is particularly keen to supervise students wishing to study the domestic politics of East-Central Europe, especially party politics and the domestic politics of Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic

Research interests

There are currently four strands to Dr Haughton’s research:

• sources of stability and instability of party politics in Central and Eastern Europe
• domestic Czech, Slovak and Slovene politics
• the role of the past in the politics of the present
• the interaction between domestic and European sources of change 

In addition Dr Haughton is working on a book examining the political development of Central and Eastern Europe since the 1989 revolutions.

Current and recent projects 

• Annuals and Perennials: Sources of Instability and Stability of Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (with Kevin Deegan-Krause).
• Exit, Choice and Legacy: Patterns of Party Politics in Post-communist Slovakia
• Splitting the Difference: Towards a More Sophisticated Measures of Volatility (with Fernando Casal-Bertoa and Kevin Deegan-Krause)
• With Birmingham colleagues Nicholas Martin and Pierre Pursiegle he is editing a collection of essays examining the legacies of war: Aftermath: Legacies of War in Europe – 1918, 1945, 1989, due for publication with Ashgate in 2013
• National Preference Formation of three (relatively) new EU Member states: Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. (Grant ran from May 2008-June 2009). For more information see http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-000-22-2786/read

With Nathaniel Copsey he is the joint editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Review of the European Union which is published by Wiley Blackwell. In their first three year term (2008-11) the Annual Review included State of the Union articles by Jose Manuel Barroso, Jean-Claude Trichet and Jerzy Buzek. Their term was extended for a further three years.

Haughton, T. (2013, forthcoming), ‘Battlefields, Ammunition and Uniforms: the Past and Politics in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe’, Comparative European Politics, accessible on-line early at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cep/journal/vaop/ncurrent/index.html#16072012

Haughton, T, (2012), An SUV on a Road to Nowhere? Solidarity, Unanimity and Vulnerability in the European Union, Washington DC: Johns Hopkins University SAIS. http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/publications/articles/Tim%20Haughton%20An%20SUV%20on%20a%20Road%20to%20Nowhere%20Solidarity.pdf

Copsey, N. and Haughton, T. (eds) (2012) The JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2011 (including keynote articles by Willem Buiter, Daniel Gros, Douglas Hurd and Erik Jones), Oxford: Wiley Blackwell (2012)

Haughton, T. (2012), ‘A Law Unto Themselves: Money, Regulation and the Development of Party Politics in the Czech Republic’ Leiden University Working Paper Series on the Legal Regulation of Political Parties, No. 20, http://www.partylaw.leidenuniv.nl/uploads/wp2012.pdf

Copsey, N. and Haughton, T. (eds) (2011) The JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2010 (including State of the Union article by Jerzy Buzek), Oxford: Wiley Blackwell

Haughton, T. (ed) Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Does EU Membership Matter?, London: Routledge (2011) originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics (vol. 25 no.4, 2009)

Krasovec, A. and Haughton, T., (2011) ‘Money, Organization and the State: the Partial Cartelization of Party Politics in Slovenia’, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 44 (3), pp. 199-209

Haughton, T. (2011) ‘Half Full But Also Half Empty: Conditionality, Compliance and the Quality of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe’, Political Studies Review, 9 (3), pp. 323-333 

Haughton, T. Novotna, T. and Deegan-Krause, K. (2011), ‘The 2010 Czech and Slovak Parliamentary Elections: Red Cards to the “Winners”’, West European Politics, 34 (2011), pp. 394-402

Haughton, T. (2010), ‘Zranitelnost, povstupni kocovina a role predsednictvi: formovani narodnich preference novych clenskych statu EU’, Mezinarodni vztahy, 45 pp. 11-28

Deegan-Krause, K. and Haughton, T. (2010), ‘A Fragile Stability: the Institutional Roots of Low Party System Stability in the Czech Republic 1990-2009’, Politologicky casopis/Czech Journal of Political Science, 10, pp. 227-241

Haughton, T. (2010), ‘Vulnerabilities, Accession Hangovers and the Presidency Role: Explaining New EU Member States’ Choices for Europe’, Harvard University Center for European Studies: Central and Eastern Europe Working Paper Series no. 68 (February 2010) http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/publications/docs/pdfs/CEE_WP_68.pdf

Haughton, T. (2009), ‘For Business, For Pleasure or For Necessity: The Czech Republic’s Choices for Europe’, Europe-Asia Studies, 61, pp.1371-1392

Haughton, T. and Rybar, M. (2009), ‘A Tool in the Toolbox: Assessing the Impact of EU Membership on Party Politics in Slovakia’, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 25 (4), pp. 540-563

Deegan-Krause, K. and Haughton, T.(2009), ‘Toward a More Useful Conceptualization of Populism: Types and Degrees of Populist Appeals in the Case of Slovakia’, Politics and Policy, 37 (4) pp. 821-841

Copsey, N. and Haughton, T. (2009), ‘The Choices for Europe: National Preferences in Old and New Member States’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 47 (2) pp. 263-286

Haughton, T. (2008), ‘Parties, Patronage and the Post-Communist State’, Comparative European Politics, 6 (4), pp. 486-500

Haughton, T. and Fisher, S. (2008), ‘From the Politics of State-building to Programmatic Politics: The Post-Federal Experience and the Development of Centre-Right Party Politics in Croatia and Slovakia’, Party Politics, 14 (4), pp. 435-454

Haughton, T. and Rybar, M. (2008) ‘A Change of Direction: the 2006 Parliamentary Elections and the Dynamics of Party Politics in Slovakia’, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 24 (2), pp. 232-255

Fisher, S. and Gould, J. and Haughton, T. (2007), ‘Slovakia’s Neoliberal Turn’, Europe-Asia Studies, 59 (6) pp. 977-988

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