Ongoing projects

Damaris Husulei: “How did politicisation in Brexit negotiations (the UK’s sovereignty demands and EU’s coercive strategy) turn human trafficking from a depoliticised area of security cooperation into collateral damage?”, supervisor: Dr Kirsten Haack

Jacob Hickey: “De-Europeanisation or business as usual? The effects of Chinese norm contestation through economics, discourse, and coercion on European solidarity”, supervisor: Dr Kirsten Haack

Konstantinos Manakos: “Europe in Times of Turbulence and Geopolitical Contest: The Digital Sovereignty Initiative through a Collective Securitisation Lens”, supervisor: Helena Farrand Carrapico

Ashleigh Forrest: “Very West, More East and Somewhere in Between’The reaction of Finland, Belarus and Ukraine against Russian foreign policy between 1995 – contemporary times”, supervisor: Dr Arantza Gomez Arana

 

Completed PhD projects (since 2015)

Joseph Pattison (2026) “Virtual Battlefields: The Politics of Power and Dissent in Modern Military Videogames”, supervisor: Dr Leonie Jackson

Thomas R. Smyth (2021): “Can Metro Mayors work? A case study of Tees Valley 2017-2021”, supervisor: Prof Keith Shaw

Neil Percival (2021): “A study exploring precarity and exploitation of employment rights for entry-level workers in the film and TV industries, and educational strategies to prepare them for career launch in this environment”, supervisor: Prof Keith Shaw

David Spain (2021): “Does the Representation of Politics Present a Specific Challenge to Creative Prose Fiction?”, supervisor: Prof Keith Shaw

Sue Regan (2019): “Gender, legitimacy and the local: a study of elected and unelected political representation”, supervisor: Prof Keith Shaw

Kenneth Reidy (2018): “The Accidental Ambassadors: Implications of Benevolent Radicalization”, supervisor: Dr Anna Mclean

Gabriele Giovannini (2017): “The impact of multinational transboundary infrastructure (MTI) on the power of small states: a case study of Laos”, supervisor: Dr Oliver Hensengerth

Jelisaveta Mihajlović (2016): “The challenge of policy coordination: Interpreting governance of the historic city centres in Serbia”, supervisor: Prof Keith Shaw

Klaudia Mierswa (2016): “Cosmopolitanism and asylum seekers in the European Union. Implementation of the asylum acquis in German, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom from 1999-2015. Are EU member states fulfilling their international and EU obligations?”, supervisor: Prof Keith Shaw

Shan Shan (2016): “China’s Energy Security: The Strategic Value of Co-Opetition and HeHe Culture” (2016), supervisor: Dr Kirsten Haack

Jacob Alada (2016): “New Public Management (NPM) Agency and Public Sector Reforms: a case study of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in Nigeria”, supervisor: Prof Edoardo Ongaro

John Griffiths (2015): “Mr Newcastle: Assessing the Career of T Dan Smith” (2015), supervisor: Prof Keith Shaw