Directors
Dr Jonathan Galloway
Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre
Newcastle Law School
Email: jonathan.galloway@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/staff/profile/jonathan.galloway
Research Interests:
Dr Galloway's research is primarily in the field of EU competition law, specifically the role of politics in competition law and policy and the extent of cooperation between antitrust authorities at the international level when reviewing mergers and acquisitions.
Professor Anthony R. Zito
Professor of European Public Policy and Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
e-mail: a.r.zito@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/anthony.zito
Research Interests:
Dr Zito's research focuses primarily on EU institutions, decision-making and public policy, and his recent publications have examined EU environmental policy, expert networks and use of science, policy-making processes and the role of civil society, and the EU engagement with other international actors.
Research Colleagues
Mr David Barlow
Newcastle University Business School
Email: david.barlow@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/staff/profile/david.barlow
Research Interests:
Mr Barlow's research interests include Macroeconomics, Transition in Eastern Europe (particularly inequality and financial deepening in the transition economies), and European economic integration.
Professor Máire F. Cross
School of Modern Languages
Email: m.f.cross@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/m.f.cross
Research Interests:
Her research interests include Flora Tristan (1803-1844, political activist in July Monarchy France); Epistolary Studies and Gender identity; and History of political ideas in Nineteenth and Twentieth century France.
Mr Phil Daniels
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Email: p.a.daniels@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/p.a.daniels
Research Interests:
Mr Daniels' interests include European Union politics and political economy, the government and politics of Italy, and the British Labour Party, emphasising the impact of European integration on the politics and political economy of Italy and Britain and party system change in Italy.
Dr Hugh Dauncey
School of Modern Languages
Email: h.d.dauncey@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/h.d.dauncey
Research Interests:
Dr Dauncey's particular EU research focus is European sports policy, including a current study of 2012 Euro football chamiponships, and European space policy.
Dr Roman David
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Email: roman.david@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/roman.david
Research Interests:
His research specialization is comparative transitional justice, particularly lustration policies in Central Europe, reparation of victims in the Czech Republic and South Africa, and apology diplomacy between Japan and its neighbors.
Professor Simin Davoudi
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, and Co-Director, Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability (IRES)
Email: simin.davoudi@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.apl.ncl.ac.uk/aboutus/profile/simin.davoudi
Research Interests:
Professor Davoudi's research focuses on (1) 'European social model' and its spatial manifestation in policies such as: territorial cohesion, polycentric development and urban-rural relationships; and (2) the role of EU in the changing nature of environmental governance at the national level.
Dr Francesco de Cecco
Newcastle Law School
Email: francesco.de-cecco@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/staff/profile/francesco.de-cecco
Research Interests:
Dr De Cecco's research interests focus on European constitutional and internal market law. At the moment his main area of research concerns state aid law and the so-called 'European economic constitution'.
Dr Sylvia de Mars
Newcastle Law School
Email: sylvia.de-mars@ncl.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Dr de Mars' current research concerns the development of EU public procurement law, with a particular focus on the implementation of the various EU procurement law sources at the national level and how EU procurement law has affected national procurement regimes.
Dr Claudia Dürrwächter
School of Geography Politics and Sociology
E-mail: claudia.duerrwaechter@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/claudia.duerrwaechter
Research Interests:
Dr Dürrwächter's research interests include innovation and social change, integrating the natural and social sciences, social justice, ethics and social cohesion.
Dr Martin Farr
School of Historical Studies
E-mail: martin.farr@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/historical/staff/profile/martin.farr
Research Interests:
His specialism is British political history since the First World War, and his teaching and supervision covers all aspects of British government and foreign policy; he also writes and commentates on current affairs.
Dr Russell Foster
Jean Monnet Centre Associate
Research Interests:
Dr Foster recently completed his doctorate examining the legacy of imperial imaginations in the European Union's visual symbols. Dr. Foster's thesis demonstrates that "empire" is not a type of state but an imagination of what a state should be: a sense of moral superiority and political responsibility which is currently manifest as the European Union. By deconstructing the iconography of the EU, the thesis demonstrates that the EU's visual symbols promote a superior imagination of the EU not as it is but as it should be - the essence of empire.
Dr María-Teresa Gil-Bazo
Newcastle Law School
Email: maria-teresa.gil-bazo@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/staff/profile/maria-teresa.gil-bazo
Research Interests:
Dr Gil-Bazo's research focuses on the interaction between internal and EU law. Dr Gil-Bazo has acted as an Expert Adviser to the European Commission and is a Member of the UK National Migration Network (a project of the EU Migration Network established by the European Council in 2001).
Professor Jens Hentschke
School of Modern Languages
Email: j.r.hentschke@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/j.r.hentschke
Research Interests:
His research interests include populism and neopopulism in a comparatively perspective, including Europe; he acts as departmental coordinator for Portuguese and is integrated into the Instituto Camões Centre for Portuguese Language at Newcastle.
Dr Xander Kirke
Jean Monnet Centre Associate
Email: Xander.Kirke@ncl.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Dr Kirke's PhD investigated how politicians and media figures re-establish a sense of ontological security following terror attacks by evoking political myths. Following from research on narratives of terror, counter terror, and radicalisation, Dr Kirke's research trajectory is now moving towards the role of political myth in right-wing populist movements and right-wing radicalisation in Europe. This will involve comparative studies between European countries, most notably Germany, Austria, and the UK. Much of this will concern how European identity is represented and, in particular, how LGBT people and rights are "adopted" by radical-right wing movements as part of a collective European self and defined against Islam. After doing this Dr Kirke plans to research the way European identity in relation to the EU (which are not always synonymous) is impacted by the evolution of these right-wing movements..
Professor Ali Madanipour
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Email: ali.madani@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.apl.ncl.ac.uk/aboutus/profile/ali.madani
Research Interests:
Professor Madanipour's research has focused on European urban studies, through EC-funded projects on social exclusion and governance in European urban neighbourhoods and on urban form and sustainability in European cities.
Dr Sara Maioli
Newcastle University Business School
Email: sara.maioli@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/staff/profile/sara.maioli
Research Interests:
Her research interests relate to applied microeconometrics, international economics and applied industrial organisation.
Professor William Maloney
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Email: william.maloney@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/william.maloney
Research Interests:
Professor Maloney's research focuses upon: Organized Interest (Interest Group) Politics (internal and external dynamics); social capital; participation (supply- and demand-sides) and nonparticipation and the professionalization of civil society representation; he currently works on civic and political involvement in Germany and the UK.
Dr Jocelyn Mawdsley
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
E-mail: Jocelyn.Mawdsley@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/jocelyn.mawdsley
Research Interests:
Jocelyn Mawdsley's research concentrates on European security and defence, both at the EU level and on national policies in Britain, France and Germany, with a particular focus on armaments policy.
Professor Richard Mullender
Newcastle Law School
Email: richard.mullender@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/staff/profile/richard.mullender
Research Interests:
Legal theory, tort law, hate speech and human rights. Current work includes Robert Cover's legal theory and its relevance to relations between the UK and the EU.
Professor Florence Myles
School of Modern Languages Old Library Building
E-mail: florence.myles@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/florence.myles
Research Interests:
Professor Myles' research is in second language acquisition, and she is currently collaborating with European researchers investigating from an interdisciplinary perspective the interaction between multilinguals' linguistic systems in acquisition, processing, and attrition.
Dr Mo O'Toole
Jean Monnet Fellow and Visiting Professsor,
Newcastle University Business School
E-mail: m.o'toole@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/staff/profile/m.o'toole
Research Interests:
Dr Mo O'Toole, a former Member of the European Parliament, is involved in Creativity and Innovation Projects in the Business School.
Professor William Outhwaite
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Email: william.outhwaite@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/william.outhwaite
Research Interests:
William Outhwaite is currently working on a project, supported by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, on social and political change in Europe since 1989, with particular reference to postcommunist transition and European integration.
Dr Ole Pedersen
Newcastle Law School
Email: ole.pedersen@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/staff/profile/ole.pedersen
Research Interests:
Dr Pedersen's main area of research is EC environmental law with consideration of its relationship to human rights and ethics. Dr Pedersen also has a more general interest in EC law.
Dr Chaditsa Poulatova
Jean Monnet Centre Associate
Email: chaditsa.poulatova@ncl.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Dr Poulatova's PhD thesis examined the issue of child soldiering and how the existing UN machinery has dealt with it, especially since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols.The thesis required a critical examination of the Human Rights Treaties and involved a comparative analysis of the data on States Parties' compliance with the obligations that they have signed up to.
Dr Alejandro Quiroga
School of Historical Studies
E-mail: alejandro.quiroga@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/historical/staff/profile/alejandro.quiroga
Research Interests:
Dr Quiroga's research in the field of national identities. His work analyses the historical development of modern Spanish, Catalan and Basque identities and their relation with the European Union.
Dr Roxana Radulescu
Newcastle University Business School
Email: maria-roxana.radulescu@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/staff/profile/maria-roxana.radulescu
Research Interests:
Dr Radulescu's current research is in the area of empirical economics, covering the relationship between labour markets, investment and FDI, and the extent of credit rationing in a range of countries, many of which are members of the EU.
Dr Nicholas Randall
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Email: n.j.randall@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/n.j.randall
Research Interests:
Dr Randall's primary EU research focus is UK political parties and European integration.
Mr Ranald Richardson
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Email: ranald.richardson@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/ranald.richardson
Research Interests:
Ranald Richardson's research is primarily in the field of the information society and the knowledge economy and focuses on the implications of developments in these fields for territorial and social inclusion, particularly in Europe.
Dr Steven Robinson
Jean Monnet Centre Associate
Research Interests:
Dr Robinson completed his PhD entitled 'Assessing the Europeanisation of Portuguese Foreign and Security Policy' at Newcastle University in 2013. His thesis critiques the existing literature on Europeanisation, and its application to foreign policy studies, by drawing upon how Portugal's foreign policy role conceptions fit into the contemporary EU context. For Portugal, the Lusophone world and the Atlantic remain central priorities despite a positive view towards European integration, suggesting that any 'Europeanisation' of foreign policy outputs is in practice rather limited..
Dr Felix Rösch
Jean Monnet Centre Associate
Research Interests:
Dr Rösch has recently finished his PhD in Politics at Newcastle University with a study on Hans J. Morgenthau's world-view. Through a contexualisation of Morgenthau's major concepts into Continental European intellectual movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Dr Rösch has investigated the appropriateness of classical realism for contemporary International Relations theorising. Reading Morgenthau helps in particular to put the focus on the human condition of politics and critically assess de-humanising and de-politicising tendencies in modern societies.
Professor Ella Ritchie
Former Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Founding Director, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Newcastle University
Email: ella.ritchie@newcastle.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Professor Ella Ritchie is an expert in the politics of the European Union (EU), with a particular interest in the Common Fisheries Policy, and the relationships between Britain and the EU and France and the EU, as well as the Bologna Process.
Professor Mark Shucksmith OBE
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Email: m.shucksmith@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.apl.ncl.ac.uk/aboutus/profile/m.shucksmith
Research Interests:
His main areas of research include rural development, social exclusion in rural areas, rural housing, agricultural change and rural policy, and he has recently coordinated 4 EU research projects: The Territorial Impact of the CAP and Rural Development Policy; Policies and Young People in Rural Development; the Rural Development Transfer Network, Northern Periphery Programme; and Restructuring in Marginal Rural Areas - The Role of Social Capital in Rural Development.
Dr Alison Stenning
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology /CURDS
Email: alison.stenning@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/alison.stenning
Research Interests:
Dr Stenning's research interests are focused on the new EU member states (particularly Poland and Slovakia): particularly in terms of the transformation of social and economic life in east central Europe after the fall of communism and the later accession to the European Union, as well as the processes and experiences of post-accession migration from the new to old member states.
Professor John Tomaney
Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies; School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Email: john.tomaney@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/john.tomaney
Research Interests:
His research concerns the relationship between territory, democracy and justice, focusing on the sources and forms of local and regional development and the types of public intervention that support these and in particular on the development of 'old industrial regions'.
Dr Nick Winder
School of Geography Politics and Sociology
E-mail: Nick.winder@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/nick.winder
Research Interests:
Winder is a specialist in cultural ecodynamics, the complex co-dynamic interaction of cultural and natural systems. He applies this work in the context of cultural and natural resource management. He is also an experienced research manager and specialist in the theory and practice of integrative research, particularly in the European Research Area.