Department of Government

Our research students

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Discover the research students in the Department of Government

Our research students investigate a broad range of exciting topics and are supervised by our academic staff.

To visit an individual research student's profile and find their contact details, please click on the links below:

Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs)

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Research interests: Political Violence
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Ask me about: Democratisation; Conflict; Nonviolent and Violent Mobilisation; Quantitative Methods
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Research interests: Environmental Politics; Environmental Attitudes; Corporate Green Commitments
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Ask me about: American Politics; Voting Behaviour
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Research interests: Current Research Interests
Assistant Lecturer GOV, Department of Government
Assistant Lecturer Gov2, Department of Government
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Ask me about: Twentieth Century International Relations; The Global Second World War; British Foreign Policy in Asia Research interests: Twentieth Century International Relations and Diplomacy; British Foreign Policy-Making Process; International Development and Humanitarianism
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Ask me about: Public opinion; British politics
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Ask me about: Politial Rituals, Authoritarian Studies, Chinese Politics, Political Thoughts, and History
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Ask me about: Coup d'état; Chinese Politics; Chinese History Research interests: Coups in autocracies

Our research students

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Research interests: Political Violence
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Research interests: Postcolonial Theory; African Diaspora ; Voting Behaviour; Party Strategy
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Public Space; Fear & Desire Research interests: Privatization of Space; Feminist Theory ; Theme-parking as a mode of urban design ; Right to the City
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Policy learning, Policy subsystems, Policy learning, Network Analysis
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Research interests: Theories and methods of discourse analysis; The political discourse of faith-based movements and organisations; The discourse of free speech, fundamentalisms, and culture wars; Political theories of the body, senses and affect
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Democratisation; Conflict; Nonviolent and Violent Mobilisation; Quantitative Methods
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: American Politics; Voting Behaviour
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Peacekeeping; Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding; Rebel Violence and Strategies Research interests: Peacekeeping; Africa; Rebel Violence; Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Research interests: Research Interests
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Geoeconomics; Geopolitics; Corruption; China; Latin America Research interests: Geoeconomic competition in developing countries
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Climate Change, National Security, Development Economy, Social Resilience, US and International politics, PR, Media and Broadcasting
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Research interests: Democratisation and democratic consolidation; Feminist methodology
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Research interests: Terrorism, Political Violence, Terrorist Organisations, Counter-Terrorism Policing, Social Network Analysis
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Public opinion; British politics
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Organized Crime, Latin America, Mexico
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Politial Rituals, Authoritarian Studies, Chinese Politics, Political Thoughts, and History
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Coup d'état; Chinese Politics; Chinese History Research interests: Coups in autocracies
Contact us
Department of Government University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Telephone: 01206 872737