Academic Staff

Staff throughout the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS).

Key Contacts:

Dr Columba Achilleos-Sarll

Lecturer

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: c.achilleos-sarll.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr David Bailey

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 2991
Email: d.j.bailey@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ahmad Barakat

Teaching Fellow

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 5313
Email: a.barakat@bham.ac.uk

Dr Nicholas Barker

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: n.barker@bham.ac.uk

Dr Stephen Bates

Senior Lecturer in Political Science

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6264
Email: s.r.bates@bham.ac.uk

Dr Tendayi Bloom

Lecturer in Politics and International Studies
Undergraduate Admissions Lead for Politics and International Studies

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44(0)121 414 4246
Email: t.bloom@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sarah Bufkin

Assistant Professor in Political Theory

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: s.m.bufkin@bham.ac.uk

Professor Peter Burnham

Professor of Political Science and International Studies

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 8225
Email: p.burnham@bham.ac.uk

Dr Tereza Capelos

Associate Professor in Political Psychology
Director of the Institute for Conflict Cooperation and Security

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6366
Email: t.capelos@bham.ac.uk

Dr Mwita Chacha

Assistant Professor

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44(0)121 414 3910
Email: m.chacha@bham.ac.uk

Dr Licia Cianetti

Lecturer

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: l.cianetti@bham.ac.uk

Dr Laurence Cooley

Lecturer in Comparative Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: l.p.cooley@bham.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Julian Cooper

Emeritus Professor of Russian Economic Studies

Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 4965
Email: j.m.cooper@bham.ac.uk

Professor David Cutts

Professor of Political Science

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: d.cutts@bham.ac.uk

Dr May Darwich

Senior Lecturer in international relations of the Middle East

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 7535
Email: m.darwich@bham.ac.uk

Professor David Dunn

Professor in International Politics
Director of Internationalisation

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 3378
Email: d.h.dunn@bham.ac.uk

Dr Lorenzo Feltrin

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: l.feltrin@bham.ac.uk

Dr Rita Floyd

Senior Lecturer in Conflict and Security

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: r.floyd@bham.ac.uk

Dr Giuditta Fontana

Senior Lecturer
Leverhulme Fellow

Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 8241
Email: g.fontana@bham.ac.uk

Dr Emma Foster

Lecturer in International Politics
College Director of Postgraduate Research

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: e.a.foster@bham.ac.uk

Dr Charlotte Galpin

Associate Professor in German and European Politics
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, School of Government

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6928
Email: c.a.galpin@bham.ac.uk

Dr Julie Gilson

Reader in Asian Studies

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 3305
Email: j.a.gilson@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente

Associate Professor in Political Economy

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: r.gonzalezvicente@bham.ac.uk

Professor Tim Haughton

Professor of Comparative and European Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6360
Email: t.j.haughton@bham.ac.uk

Dr Mattias Hjort

Lecturer in Political Science

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: m.hjort@bham.ac.uk

Dr Julian Hoerner

Lecturer

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: j.hoerner@bham.ac.uk

Dr Laura Jenkins

Lecturer in Political Science

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 4710
Email: l.m.jenkins@bham.ac.uk

Dr Deema Kaneff

Reader in Social Anthropology

Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7339
Email: d.kaneff@bham.ac.uk

Dr Peter Kerr

Senior Lecturer in Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7745
Email: p.kerr@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sameera Khalfey

Lecturer in International Relations

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: s.m.khalfey@bham.ac.uk

Dr George Kyris

Lecturer in International Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 415 8616
Email: g.kyris@bham.ac.uk

Professor René Lindstädt

Head of the School of Government
Professor of Government and Data Science

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6060
Email: r.lindstaedt@bham.ac.uk

Dr Huw Macartney

Senior Lecturer in Political Economy

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: h.macartney@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ameneh Mehvar

ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: a.mehvar@bham.ac.uk

Dr Cerwyn Moore

Senior lecturer in International Relations

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 3059
Email: c.moore.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr Jost-Henrik Morgenstern-Pomorski

DAAD Lecturer in European Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: j.morgenstern-pomorski@bham.ac.uk

Dr Natascha S. Neudorfer

Associate Professor, Birmingham Fellow

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7490
Email: n.neudorfer@bham.ac.uk

Dr Richard North

Reader in Political Theory

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 4711
Email: r.north.2@bham.ac.uk

Dr Julian Pänke

Lecturer in European Politics

Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7739
Email: j.p.paenke@bham.ac.uk

Dr Geoffrey Pigman

Honorary Research Fellow in Government

Telephone: +1 413 358 8600
Email: g.pigman@bham.ac.uk

Professor Patrick Porter

Professor of International Security and Strategy

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: p.porter@bham.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Peter Preston

Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6527
Email: p.w.preston@bham.ac.uk

Dr Adam Quinn

Associate Professor in American and International Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 5313
Email: a.j.quinn@bham.ac.uk

Dr Robert Ralston

Lecturer

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Email: r.ralston@bham.ac.uk

Dr Richard Shorten

Senior Lecturer in Political Theory

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7570
Email: r.c.shorten@bham.ac.uk

Dr Asaf Siniver

Reader in International Security
Head of Internationalisation, School of Government
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Global Security Studies

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6386
Email: a.siniver@bham.ac.uk

Dr Nicola Smith

Associate Professor in Political Science

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7569
Email: n.j.smith.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ash Kayte Stokoe

Teaching Fellow

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 5313
Email: k.stokoe@bham.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Colin Thain

Emeritus Professor of Political Science

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 415 1052
Email: c.thain@bham.ac.uk

Dr Graham Timmins

Reader in International Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6345
Email: g.timmins@bham.ac.uk

Dr Tsering Topgyal

Lecturer in International Relations

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 8228
Email: t.topgyal@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sevasti-Eleni Vezirgiannidou

Lecturer in International Organisations

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6224
Email: s.vezirgiannidou@bham.ac.uk

Dr Marco Vieira

Senior Lecturer in International Relations
Director of Research, POLSIS

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6265
Email: m.a.vieira@bham.ac.uk

Dr Robert Watt

Lecturer

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6523
Email: r.n.watt@bham.ac.uk

Professor Mark Webber

Professor of International Politics

School of Government

Telephone: +44 (0)121 415 8181
Email: m.a.webber.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr Mark Wenman

Senior Lecturer in Political Theory

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6520
Email: m.wenman@bham.ac.uk

Professor Nicholas J. Wheeler

Professor of International Relations

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6215
Email: n.j.wheeler@bham.ac.uk

Professor Kataryna Wolczuk

Professor of East European Politics

Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6356
Email: k.wolczuk@bham.ac.uk

Professor Stefan Wolff

Professor of International Security

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 8230
Email: s.wolff@bham.ac.uk

Dr Christalla Yakinthou

Birmingham Fellow

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 415 8634
Email: c.yakinthou@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis

Associate Professor in Comparative European Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6515
Email: s.zartaloudis@bham.ac.uk

Academic Staff

Key Contacts:

Head of Department

Director of Teaching and Learning and UG Programme Lead

Departmental Research Lead

Undergraduate Admissions Lead

Postgraduate Admissions Lead

Postgraduate Director

Departmental Doctoral Research Lead