Postgraduate research students
| Student | Research title | Project summary |
|---|---|---|
| Kholood Asiri | Supervised by: Prof Colin Grant / Prof Charles Lees | |
| Abdullah Bani Ali | Arab uprising and the future of the Middle East Peace Process | Supervised by: Dr Scott Thomas / Prof Anna Bull |
| Ben Bowman b.c.bowman@bath.ac.uk |
Young people's politics during transitions to adulthood | Young people's everyday politics in Britain is explored using participatory methods, from the perspective that young people inhabit a liminal political space; not quite children, but not quite citizens. It explores how young people adapt to their ambiguous political position during the risky transitions to adulthood. Supervised by: Dr Susan Milner / Dr Rita Chawla-Duggan |
| Chun-Fung Chen (Geoffrey) c.chen@bath.ac.uk |
The governance of renewable energy in China | This research explores the possibilities for an alternative form of environmental governance in which renewable energy can be diffused in a less participatory manner, with more direct controls and target-oriented measures that render a positive outcome of policy objectives. Supervised by: Prof Charles Lees / Dr Ingolfur Blühdorn |
| Jin-Woen Choi | Ecological Modernisation & Biofuels for Transport in Europe | Supervised by: Dr Joseph Szarka / Dr Ingolfur Blühdorn |
| Philip Dandolov pid21@bath.ac.uk |
Europeanisation, Euroscepticism, and nationalist-populist parties | This research touches upon Euroscepticism in Eastern European and Western European countries, drawing comparisons regarding the degree to which the influence of the EU is considered problematic by members of nationalist-populist parties when it comes to policy areas like migration. The nature of nationalist expression within specific states is also examined. Supervised by: Dr Anne White / Prof Charles Lees |
| Andrew Eagleton | What impact does twenty-first century society have on the modern soldier? | An investigation into the relationship between the socialisation and ‘construction’ of soldiers within and without the traditional army institution in different European democracies to determine the 'type' of soldier that each constructs. Supervised by: Dr David Galbreath / Prof Adrian Hyde-Price |
| Brett Edwards | The ethics and governance of dual-use Synthetic Biology: A comparative case study of the US and the UK | This research examines the politics and practice of security surrounding new and emerging biotechnology. There is particular focus on the impacts of anticipatory governance regimes which have developed around nascent techno-scientific fields which address the prospect that biotechnology may contribute to the development of biological weapons. Supervised by: Dr Alexander Kelle / Prof Adrian Hyde-Price |
| Eziza Eziza | Young People & Political Participation: Empirical investigations into young people’s participation at the highest levels of UK politics | A comparative empirical study that aims to identify the ‘barriers to participation’ preventing young people between the ages of 18 and 25 from effective engagement at the highest levels of UK political institutions and policy-making processes. Supervised by: Dr David Cutts / Prof Anna Bull |
| Joseph Gillings jg219@bath.ac.uk |
Wootton Bassett: grief or nationalism | Withdrawal from Afghanistan signals the end to a testing period for the British military, raising questions about their efficacy as an instrument of politics and revealing, what Hew Strachan calls, a ‘strategic gap’. This research explores the ‘gap’ through the relationship between Clausewitz’s ‘paradoxical trinity’ of government, military and society. Supervised by: Prof Adrian Hyde-Price / Dr David Galbreath |
| Kinga Goodwin | Class, gender and ethnicity performance amongst Polish women in three cultural settings | Supervised by: Dr Anne White / Dr Nina Parish |
| Clara Guillen | The representation of immigrants in Spanish cinema | This study deals with the analysis of eight films representing immigrants in Spain. The films are documentaries and fiction films made by Spanish and non-Spanish filmmakers from the 1990s till 2011. The project aims to describe how and to what extent the films open the space for political argumentation. Supervised by: Dr David Clarke |
| Richard Guthrie | The EU and the Biological Weapons Convention: a case study in the implementation of the 2003 EU WMD Strategy | Supervised by: Dr Alexander Kelle / Dr Alan Butt Philip |
| Max Hatzold | Mining For Development. An Organisational Theory Perspective on the Management of Natural Resource Rents in Andean Countries | Supervised by: Dr Gian Luca Gardini / Prof James Copestake |
| Arash Heydarian Pashakhanlou ahp25@bath.ac.uk |
Fear in International Relations: The Levels of Analysis | This study locates the causes of fear at the three different levels of analysis; the individual, the state and the system level. It seeks to identify the major cause of fear in IR as well as its permissive and immediate causes, and demonstrate how they are interrelated through a theoretical analysis. Supervised by: Dr David Galbreath / Prof Adrian Hyde-Price |
| Robert Joustra | The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom: Why International Theory needs International Political Theology | Supervised by: Dr Scott Thomas / Prof Adrian Hyde-Price |
| Taroub Khayyat | Political communication in the age of dissemination: Media constructions of Hezbollah | This project addresses political communication in complex media environments in Lebanon, looking specifically at the recursive communications between media organisations and political systems. It investigates how the production, representations and responses to representations of news source text and context in the spheres of political communication and interconnected media systems are recontextualised and disseminated worldwide and fed back again through recursive communication. Supervised by: Prof Colin Grant / Mr Brian Neve |
| Joanna Legg | Democratic practice and policy-making at the regional level in Europe, testing the gender and diversity agenda | Supervised by: Dr Hanna Diamond / Prof Anna Bull |
| Christos Marazopoulos | Testing the Impact of Regional Instability on the Outbreak of Conflict: approaching the Western Balkans through Regional Security Complex Theory | Supervised by: Dr Gian Luca Gardini / Prof Adrian Hyde-Price |
| Magdalena Nasieniak | To be confirmed | Supervised by: Dr Lisbeth Aggestam / Dr David Galbreath |
| Hakki Onen | Turkey - EU relations and political integration | Supervised by: Dr David Galbreath / Prof Charles Lees |
| Hilary Potter | The Dynamics of German Remembering: The Rosenstrasse Protest in Historical Debate and Cultural Representation | Supervised by: Dr Renate Rechtien / Prof Axel Goodbody |
| Sarah Priest | The role of bridging and linking social capital after the 1998 Peace Agreement in the Northern Ireland women's movement's engagement with policy-making and efforts to gender democracy | Supervised by: Prof Anna Bull / Dr Hanna Diamond |
| Milena Romano | The partnership between the European Union and NATO: collaboration, competition and possible improvements | During the last decade the international scene has changed in definition of security. This project aims to identify and analyse aspects of the collaboration between the European Union and the NATO and the mechanisms that could be developed to improve it. Different approaches to crisis management scenarios at the two organisations will be explored. Supervised by: Dr David Galbreath / Dr Lisbeth Aggestam |
| Denisa Sarajlic-Maglic | The potential of EU ‘normative power’ to diffuse values to post-conflict: a case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina | Supervised by: Dr Anne White / Dr Lisbeth Aggestam |
| Sascha Sauerteig | The effective enforcement of international institutions: An institutionalist analysis of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime. | A qualitative study of the effectiveness of an enforcement system for the nuclear non-proliferation regime. The assessment is based on two phases. The first applies a counterfactual approach to determine how effective the enforcement system is. Secondly, factors that determine the effectiveness (using an institutionalist perspective) will be analysed. Supervised by: Dr David Galbreath / Dr Alexander Kelle |
| Claudia Sechi cs504@bath.ac.uk |
The representation of the Balkans in Italian literary texts since fascism | This project looks at literary texts concerning the Italian occupation of the Balkan peninsula during World War II and compares them with literary texts that narrate the Balkan crisis of recent years. A post-colonial theoretical framework is applied to the analysis of the selected texts and the perspective of Italian and Yugoslav writers are examined. Supervised by: Dr Adalgisa Giorgio / Dr Karoline Von Oppen |
| Aynur Seidyusif | Third-party mediation in Post-Soviet conflicts | Supervised by: Dr David Galbreath / Prof Adrian Hyde-Price |
| Syed Sajid Shah | Supervised by: Dr David Galbreath / Dr Graham Brown | |
| Elina Stergatou | A Critical Study of the Impact of Europeanisation Processes on Greek Strategic Culture - Security Crises case studies: 1998-2003 | Supervised by: Dr David Galbreath / Dr Lisbeth Aggestam |
| Daniel Street | Opening Pandora’s Box? Theorising the commercialisation of military services in the post-Cold War world | Supervised by: Prof Adrian Hyde-Price / Dr Alexander Kelle |
| Yu-Han Teng (Andrea) | A study of the impact from different allowances auction models on Eastern and Western European Member States under EU-ETS: central or domestic auction platform? | Supervised by: Dr Joseph Szarka / Dr Ingolfur Bluhdorn |
| Bilge Yabanci | Seeking legitimation: European Union and local actors in conflict resolution. Cases of Kosovo and North Cyprus | An inside-out analysis of the EU’s efforts to resolve protracted ethno-national conflicts in its neighbourhood. This thesis problematises the current literature that exclusively relies on self-identity construction of the EU as normative and force for good. Supervised by: Dr David Galbreath / Dr Susan Milner |
