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
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
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Ask me about: Intersectionality; Systems of Oppression; Quantitative Methods; Health Inequalities
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: Organized Crime, Latin America, Mexico
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
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Government
Ask me about: Finance, Python, Stock Trader, Fintech, Computational Finance, Bank Research interests: Boosting Financial Image Recognition Performance through Reverse Image Augmentation -- accepted at ECAI Workshop on AI in Finance (AIFin’24) ; A Study of Machine Learning in Law Firms -Machine learning analysis of structured data to predict case win rate and case time consuming

Our research students

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Research interests: Postcolonial Theory; African Diaspora ; Voting Behaviour; Party Strategy
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Thai politics; Environmental Issues Research interests: sustainability ; small state diplomacy; greenwashing
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Civil Wars, Political Violence, Latin America
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
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: 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
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Research interests: Democratisation and democratic consolidation; Feminist methodology
Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Government
Ask me about: Environmental Politics; Misinformation; Quantitative Methods; Governance & Institutions
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
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