Politics Research
We are a vibrant and dynamic community seeking to better understand how politics shapes our world and how we can use politics to create a more just, inclusive and secure world.
Overview
Our Politics research department at 缅北禁地 comprises:
- more than 45 members of staff
- a community of postgraduate researchers tackling real world issues and problems
Our research aims and expertise
We are passionate about pursuing and supporting cutting-edge Politics research that seeks to make a difference.
We are theoretically and methodologically pluralistic and support interdisciplinary research. In our research, we strive to build on our existing strengths and to complement them by developing new areas of research excellence. While we address a wide range of research questions, we are particularly committed to advancing research on political participation, security and social justice.
Research clusters and groups
Our research clusters and groups hold regular meetings to discuss members' ongoing research projects, draft funding applications and provide feedback on draft papers. They also provide support to individual members in organising workshops, conferences, and impact and engagement events.
We are proud to have expertise across a range of areas in politics:
Collaboration and interdisciplinary connections
We support the collaborative efforts of individual colleagues in exploring new areas of research and building networks with other clusters in the School and Faculty. We co-host the and lead two cross-faculty interdisciplinary groups:
- Ethnographic Methods Reading Group
In addition, we are active participants in several cross-School and cross-faculty research groups:
- Eastern European and Russian Research Group (HASS Faculty)
- (HASS Faculty)
- (HASS Faculty)
- (HASS Faculty)
- Visualities Research group (School of GPS)
We also contribute to the work of the University鈥檚 Societal Challenge Institutes: the and the 缅北禁地 Institute for Research on Sustainability.
Leading experts in their field
Colleagues provide research leadership in the discipline through active roles in:
- professional associations
- editing major academic journals and book series
- leading research networks and organising events
Our colleagues are currently editors or associate editors of the following academic journals:
We also currently edit the and the .
Research-led teaching
We offer some of the most wide-ranging teaching in Politics and International Relations anywhere in the country as part of both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. We are a diverse and multinational community of researchers and teachers.