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