Our Staff

Lecturer in Political Science

Barış teaches Social Science Research Methods and Comparative Politics. His research interests include violent political conflict and its peaceful resolution; political institutions and democratization; international interventions to civil wars; and non-state armed groups. He employs statistical, computational, and experimental methods to study conflict and cooperation between political actors.

Associate Professor in European Politics

Pierre teaches EU politics and the politics of energy and climate change. His current research interests include EU institutions, EU energy and climate politics, renewable energy policies especially related to offshore wind, as well as the democratic governance of climate and energy transitions.

Associate Professor of Communications Policy and Politics

Sally is a public policy scholar specialising in the governance of media and communications sectors. Her work is grounded in fundamental rights and theories about institutions and regulation. She is recently focused on risk and harm in digital platforms, media plurality online, and audiovisual media services, as well as competition in digital markets.

Associate Professor (Reader) of Political and Legal Theory

Alexander teaches Social and Political Theory, Distributive Justice, and Free Speech. His research interests are captured in the subjects of his published books which include: Hate Speech Frontiers (CUP, 2023), An Ethics of Political Communication (Routledge, 2021), The Politics of Hate Speech Law (Routledge, 2019), A Theory of Legitimate Expectations for Public Administration (OUP, 2017), Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination (Routledge, 2015), Ronald Dworkin’s Theory of Equality: Domestic and Global Perspectives (Palgrave, 2009), and Personal Responsibility: Why it Matters (Continuum, 2009).

Lecturer in International Relations

Suzanne’s teaching and research interests focus on the politics of nuclear weapons, military technology, international security, and international history.

Professor of Political & Social Theory

Alan teaches a range of subjects including Political Theory, Social Theory, British Politics and Cultural Politics. His research generally centres on Democratic Theory, Political Ideologies, Digital Politics and Rhetoric. He is one of the founders of the school of Rhetorical Political Analysis and the leading expert on rhetoric in contemporary British Politics. In recent projects he has studied protest songs, how digital media are changing reactionary politics and travelled the country teaching people how to make political speeches.

Associate Professor

Michael teaches mainly in political theory. Among his modules are Western Political Thought and Power and Society (2nd year) and Capitalism and its Critics (3rd year). He also serves on the school’s executive committee as Senior Advisor and Disability Liaison Officer.

Lecturer in Politics

Peter currently teaches Introduction to Contemporary Politics, Social and Political Theory, and Global Politics 1 and 2. He has publications in the areas of disability politics and Australian politics.

Lecturer in International Relations

Juvaria is a political economist with research expertise on the international political economy of the global South, particularly finance and development strategies, including fintech. She is currently leading modules on global governance for MA students, and global political economy for BA students.

Professor of Politics and Public Policy

Toby teaches on comparative politics, democracy and elections.  He is the co-Director of the Electoral Integrity Project and also Distinguished Fellow at the School of Policy Studies and Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queens University, Canada. Recent research projects include global election quality, The Trump Administration, covid-19 and elections and UK democratic backsliding.

Associate Professor in Politics and Widening Participation Academic Lead

Chris teaches on Britain and Europe and Worldbuilding: International Systems Throughout History. His research has focused on Genocide, the foreign policy of French president François Mitterrand, and the end of the Cold War. Chris is the Widening Participation Lead and is particularly interested in the intersection between class, gender, and mental health disabilities.

Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Politics

Ben teaches activism, media and cultural studies, digital media and more. He is a participatory methods specialist who used deliberative, democratic methods to write UEA’s 60th Anniversary Civic Charter. He has a long standing association with Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, and has co-authored two books The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism (Routledge, 2021) and Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity, Politics (Palgrave 2016). He is founding chair of the London College of Political Technology and has appeared in media such as The Guardian, BBC Look East, Sky News, Washington Post and more. He job shares the role of Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Civic.

Sasakawa Associate Professor

Ra’s work draws on theories of risk, security and social construction to understand the complex relations between regional alliances, states and non-state actors – with a specific focus on Okinawa. His monograph, Japan's Relations with North Korea and the Recalibration of Risk, was highly acclaimed by specialists in the field and was followed by coauthorship of two further breakthrough books on Japan's international relations and foreign policy, Regional Risk and Security in Japan: Whither the Everyday? and Risk State: Japan's Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty.

Lecturer in International Relations

Soul's main research and teaching interests are in international security, strategic studies, international relations theory and qualitative methods, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific region.

Lecturer in Politics and Policy

Anuradha’s research asks questions about ideology and discourse, processes of policy making, and right-wing mobilisation in the US, UK and India. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules on political communication, elite power in politics and policy making, public policy, and public management.

Lecturer in International Relations

Her research focuses on the nexus of international politics and international law, including how IR theory and international legal theory understand each other, and the international law regulating hate speech. Her publications include Hate Speech Frontiers (Cambridge University Press, 2023) , The Politics of Hate Speech Law (Routledge, 2019), International Relations Theory and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010). She teaches first and second year compulsory modules in Global Politics and International Relations Theory.

Associate Professor in Politics

Bob lectures in political and social theory. He teaches modules on utopias/dystopias, multiculturalism, sociological theory, western political thought and political violence/conflict.

Associate Professor in Public Policy and Public Management

John teaches on topics relating to public policy and administration. His research interests include environment and climate change-related policy, the relationship between evidence, science, politics and public policy-making, and the politics of wellbeing.

Associate Professor in Politics

Eitan is a political scientist interested legislative and party politics, and in the application of quantitative methods to the study of political institutions and political behaviour. Specific interests are the politics of the far and the radical-right, the spread, communication, and normalization of populist ideas, and political polarisation. Eitan teaches modules on parliaments and on quantitative and computational methods.

Lecturer in Digital Media and Society

Alex teaches a number of modules on digital technology and society, including Digital Politics. His research interests largely rest within the domains of political theory, social theory, and digital studies. He is the author of three books, Inventing the Future, (Verso, 2015), Political Hegemony & Social Complexity, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). His work has been covered by media outlets such as BBC News, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Independent, and The New Statesman, as well as many international publications. He is presently working on a book project about the theory of political interests, and a research project on AI Ideologies.