{"id":111,"date":"2014-03-15T13:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T13:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:10:32","slug":"phd-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.northumbria.ac.uk\/politics\/?page_id=111","title":{"rendered":"PhD students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ongoing projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

Damaris Husulei: “How did politicisation in Brexit negotiations (the UK\u2019s sovereignty demands and EU\u2019s coercive strategy) turn human trafficking from a depoliticised area of security cooperation into collateral damage?”, supervisor: Dr Kirsten Haack<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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

Ashleigh Forrest: “Very West, More East and Somewhere in Between’The reaction of Finland, Belarus and Ukraine against Russian foreign policy between 1995 \u2013 contemporary times”, supervisor: Dr Arantza Gomez Arana<\/p>\n

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Completed PhD projects (since 2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joseph Pattison (2026) “Virtual Battlefields: The Politics of Power and Dissent in Modern Military Videogames”, supervisor: Dr Leonie Jackson<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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<\/p>\n

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

Sue Regan (2019): \u201cGender, legitimacy and the local: a study of elected and unelected political representation\u201d, supervisor: Prof Keith Shaw<\/p>\n

Kenneth Reidy (2018): “The Accidental Ambassadors: Implications of Benevolent Radicalization”, supervisor: Dr Anna Mclean<\/p>\n

Gabriele Giovannini (2017): \u201cThe impact of multinational transboundary infrastructure (MTI) on the power of small states: a case study of Laos\u201d, supervisor: Dr Oliver Hensengerth<\/p>\n

Jelisaveta Mihajlovi\u0107 (2016): “The challenge of policy coordination: Interpreting governance of the historic city centres in Serbia”, supervisor: Prof Keith Shaw<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Shan Shan (2016): “China\u2019s Energy Security: The Strategic Value of Co-Opetition and HeHe Culture” (2016), supervisor: Dr Kirsten Haack<\/p>\n

Jacob Alada (2016): \u201cNew Public Management (NPM) Agency and Public Sector Reforms: a case study of Tertiary Education Trust Fund\u00a0(TETFund) in Nigeria”, supervisor: Prof\u00a0Edoardo Ongaro<\/p>\n

John Griffiths (2015): \u201cMr Newcastle: Assessing the Career of T Dan Smith\u201d (2015), supervisor: Prof Keith Shaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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