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Our staff produce world-leading and cutting-edge research across the field of Politics and International Relations.
Much of our research has been funded by prestigious external funding bodies including the ESRC, the AHRC, the Australian Research Council, the British Academy, the European Union, the Leverhulme Trust, the Natural Environment Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Here is a small selection of recent and current projects:
Current projects
Alex Brown, PI, Combating hate speech
Alex Brown, PI, A Theory of Legitimate Expectations for Public Administration
Alan Finlayson, PI, Political Ideology, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the 'Alt-Right, AHRC
Toby James, PI, Electoral Management
Lee Jarvis and Lee Marsden, British [Muslim] Values: Conflict or Convergence?, ESRC
Hussein Kassim, PI, Negotiating Brexit: national governments, EU institutions and the UK, ESRC Brexit Priority
Hussein Kassim, PI, Understanding the EU Civil Service: the General Secretariat of the Council, UEA
John Street, PI, with Alan Finlayson, CoI, on ‘Our Subversive Voice? The history and politics of the English protest song’, AHRC
Michael Frazer, PI, 'The Ethics of Political Activism in the Humanities and Social Sciences,’ funded by the Spencer Foundation
Hussein Kassim, PI, 'Negotiating the Future: The UK's re-positioning in Europe', ESRC UK in a Changing Europe, Senior Fellowship
Hussein Kassim, PI, 'The European Commission: Where now? Where next?', UEA, European University Institute, German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
Kate Mattocks, Experimentation in Canadian cultural policy, Canada-UK Foundation
Lee Jarvis and Tim Legrand – The Proscription of Terrorist Organisations in Illiberal States, Australian Research Council
Recently completed projects
Alan Finlayson, British Political Speech
Toby James Political leadership
Hussein Kassim, Co-I, EMU Choices, EU Horizon2020
Hussein Kassim, PI, The European Commission: Facing the Future, private donation
Hussein Kassim, The European Commission in Question, ESRC Large Research Grant