Dr Charlotte Galpin

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• PGCHE Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (Birmingham)
• PhD Political Science and International Studies (Birmingham)
• MA European Integration (Birmingham)
• BA (Hons) French and German Studies (Warwick)

Charlotte Galpin joined the department in May 2017 and became Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in August 2021. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen and a teaching fellow at the University of Bath. She completed her PhD at the Institute for German Studies, POLSIS, in 2014.

 In autumn term 2019/20 she held the Alfred Grosser Visiting Professorship in Civil Society Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She has also been a visiting researcher at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University Berlin, and the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland.

 Dr Galpin has presented her research internationally, and has provided analysis of German politics for a number of news outlets, including Associated Press, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio West Midlands, Deutsche Welle, Business Insider UK, the i newspaper, and the Huffington Post. She has also given evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee and House of Lords Committee on Communication and Digital.

 She speaks German (advanced), French (advanced), Polish (intermediate), and Danish (beginner).

Dr Galpin is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE). She also holds a SEDA Learning, Teaching and Assessing Award (2020).

Dr Galpin is interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

• National and European Identity
• European Public Sphere
• Euroscepticism
• The role of Germany and/or Britain in Europe
• Brexit
• Media representation including social media
• Gender, feminist and queer approaches to the above

Research interests

Dr Galpin’s research focuses on a number of areas:

•  The European public sphere, particularly media representation and the impact of social media
• European and national identities and their relationship to EU citizenship, legitimacy and transnational democracy
• Masculinities and gendered patterns of inclusion/exclusion in the public sphere
• Online and media abuse of women, LGBTQ+ and racialised people and the impact on democracy and citizenship
• Intersectional feminist theory and critical feminist methodologies
• She has a particular area focus on Germany and the UK.

 Funded projects

Dr Galpin has worked on a number of funded research projects:

 She is currently working on her second monograph, provisionally entitled ‘‘Gendering Europe: British national identity from EEC accession to EU secession”. This project was supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship between September 2022 and September 2023.

She was part of the Jean Monnet Network ‘Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the (De-)Legitimation of European Integration’ (2019-22) coordinated by the University of Iceland, for which she leads a work package focusing on the impact of disinformation and ‘post-truth’ on the European public sphere. She is particularly interested in the role of gender in dynamics of post-truth.

She was Co-Investigator on the major research project ‘Post-Socialist Britain: Memory, Representation and Political Identity amongst German and Polish Immigrants in the UK’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (2021-24). The PI by Professor Sara Jones (Modern Languages), and the second CI is Dr Jenny Wüstenberg (Nottingham Trent). The project explores the connection between collective memory and political identity in the process of migration, focusing specifically on two countries with experience of state socialist rule, Germany and Poland. The project will also have a strong impact dimension, working with policy-makers, immigrant communities, arts communities, and professional and community associations.

She was a Co-Investigator on ‘Futures of German Diasporas’ (2022-23), an interdisciplinary visiting scholar programme funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

She was the Principle Investigator on the project ‘At the digital margins? Researching and communicating marginalisation in online political engagement’ (Spring 2022), funded by Research England’s QR Enhancing Research and Knowledge Exchange Funding Programme.

She was Co-Investigator on the two-year project “Shifting Constellations: Germany and Global (Dis)Order” (January 2019 - December 2020, extended to 2021), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

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• Instagram: @drcharlottegalpin

Dr Galpin is Elected Treasurer and Trustee of UACES – the University Association for Contemporary European Studies, September 2025-28.

The Post-Truth Politics research network ran the Post-Truth Politics Podcast. Dr Galpin hosted two episodes, the first of which focuses on intersectional approaches to post-truth in conversation with Dr Muireann O’Dwyer.