Democracy, elections, electoral behavior

Public finance, local government economics, fiscal federalism, political economy, local democracy

Energy Security
Energy Policy
Turkish Politics and Turkish Energy Policy

Visual political communication, Information visualizations, Social networks, Digital culture, Political campaigns

Turkey, Turkish foreign policy, discourse analysis, EU-Turkey relations, the Kurdish issue

Political Psychology

Humanitarian Interventions and Peacekeeping, Armed Conflict, International Development, Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (esp. diamonds and gold), African Politics and Security

Moral and political philosophy, normative political theory, ethics, global justice, value pluralism, incommensurability, comparability

Anno is a researcher at the Data Research Centre, working on the H2020 project 'Cutting Crime Impact' and his doctoral dissertation on law enforcement and Big Data.

In addition, he has 7+ years experience in innovation in education through running simulations for universities, ministries and the Royal Military Academy as a training and educational tool. He has also designed and delivered advanced courses at Utrecht University and Liverpool Hope University.

Foreign Policy Analysis, EU-Russia relations, Central/Eastern Europe, Populism in International Relations, EU External Action

My research is generally concerned with the roles of emergent technologies, non-state actors and expert knowledge in contemporary global governance. In particular, I study the on-going and varying implications of big data and blockchain technologies at the intersections of global environmental, financial and security governance. 

My teaching and research are situated at the intersection of modern political and social history and the social sciences. 

*Political, social, and urban history of modern and contemporary (Western) Europe
*History of democratic innovation and change  
*History and democracy in political and public discourse
*History of local and regional governance in Europe

Political polarization, value conflict, morality, attitude moralization, political discourse, social change, quantitative methods and statistics

critical (multimodal) discourse analysis; political and legal discourse; migration, integration, and (un)belonging; identity; language policy and multilingualism

Political parties, party image, electoral campaigns, content analysis, comparative studies, quantitative methods, text analysis

International Affaris, Communications, Public Relations, Policy Research, Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation, Electoral Management

Digital Media; Social Networks; Computational Social Science

Intra-European migration, (Transnational) party organization; Attitudes towards the EU; Mixed methods research

Biopolitics, (pandemic) temporalities, critical security/border studies

After completing her PhD at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2016, she spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies at the University of Bremen. She is the author of "Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis" (Palgrave, 2017). Her other publications include peer-reviewed articles on nationalism, sexuality, and social networks, as well as regular blog posts at “The Duck of Minerva”. Lisa's research is situated on the intersection of political theory, international relations, media and cultural studies. 

My main areas of interest are: democracy and authoritarianism; the European Union and the Eastern Partnership; and post-Soviet politics.   

International sanctions, EU Foreign Policy, Illicit Trade

Chinese populism, discourse polarization, political communication

My current work focuses on the influence of place-specific sociotechnical imaginaries on governance processes related to the transition towards a circular economy. 

Particular fields of interest in this perspective are: imagined futures, the governance of innovations, science and technology studies, the politics of sustainability transitions.

Fields of interest are: policy evaluation, auditing and evaluation of legislation.

International Relations Theory, International Political Theory, Normative IR Theory, Critical Theory, Arctic Security, Arctic International Relations and Governance.

Populism; Radical Right; Far Right Politics; Comparative Politics; European Politics

Selected Publications:
" The normalisation of the far right in the Dutch media in the run-up to the 2021 general elections" (2022). Co-authored with E. Gaufman.

"Going Nativist: How to Interview the Radical Right?" International Journal of Qualitative Methods (2022) . Co-authored with K. Damhuis.

The Success and Failure of Right-wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries , Routledge, Extremism & Democracy Series (2021).

"The Curious Case of Belgium: Why is There no Right-Wing Populism in Wallonia?" in Government & Opposition (2020).

Panel Debate: Corona and the Populist Radical Right: End of an Era?

Emillie is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam’s Open Intelligence Lab, and a research consultant for the UN DPPA Innovation Cell. Her research lies on the formation of speech norms in social media content moderation and their impact in the formation of online counter-spheres. With the UN DPPA Innovation Cell, she develops analytical software and research methods for monitoring public conflict and dialogue across the web.

Keywords: digital methods, content moderation, online extremism, conflict monitoring

Political Geography, Economic Geography, Regional Science, Social and Spatial Inequalities, Happiness and Well-being, Migration

Critical Security Studies, European Studies, EU enlargement

Comparative Public Policy; Social Policy; Differentiation in the European Union; Euroscepticism; Political Long-Termism

Latest publications:

Experimental differentiation as an innovative form of cooperation in the European Union: Evidence from the Nordic Battlegroup, Contemporary Security Policy (Open Access)

The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union, co-edited with Stefan Gänzle and Jarle Trondal. (Open Access Introduction)

‘Differentiation in the European Union in post-Brexit and -pandemic times: Macro-level developments with meso-level consequences’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 60:S1, 26-37 (Open Access)

Current research project:

Rebuilding Governance and Resilience out of the Pandemic (REGROUP), Horizon Europe, 2022-25

international political economy; global politics; international trade; corporate power; economic measurement.

Modern political history
Russia and the former Soviet Union
Authoritarian regimes
Political-economic institutions

Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences,
Qualitative Data Analysis (Atlas.ti) ,
Social Network Analysis (including basics of statistical modelling via ERGM and SAOM)

Energy Security, Energy Transition, Critical Geopolitics, Sustainability, Global Energy Governance, International Conflict Management.

Political, social and cultural history of 20th century France and Spain; history, politics and theory of the (European) Left; French and Spanish politics; French and Spanish culture; political theory, particularly ideas regarding violence and non-violence.

Who is responsible for global structural injustice? This is the question that motivates my research. Through engagement with Iris Marion Young’s “social connection model” of responsibility ­– the idea that individuals bear political responsibility for structural injustices they are connected to – I explore the responsibilities of individuals, as well as corporate actors. I am writing my first book on this topic, With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming). I also have research interests in reparations for slavery and intersectional feminism.

I am an Assistant Professor in Political Theory at Campus Fryslân, an interdisciplinary faculty at the University of Groningen. Previously, I was a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge; a Junior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, where I founded the St Hilda’s Feminist Salon; a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Justitia Amplificata, Goethe University Frankfurt; and a Teaching Associate in Ethics and World Politics at the University of Cambridge. I did my PhD and MA in Political Theory at UCL (University College London). My undergraduate degree was in Politics and International Relations at the University of Manchester.

Fields of Expertise: Political Theory, Digital Humanities, Global & Local Governance.

My PhD project focuses on digital democratic innovations and their potential for increased citizens’ participation, deliberation and influence on political decision-making. In particular, I am interested in investigating the downfalls and gaps in current designs of digital participation systems to identify opportunities for their improvement, thus making democratic innovations more inclusive, deliberative, and empowering.

My research expertise is on the history of international thought (1800s-on), with special interest on concepts of geopolitics, territory, political spatiality, and global environment governance. In my present work I am interested in tracing how geographers and international thinkers wrote about the connections between environmental crises and world orders, from the 1890s-1960s. In tracing these histories, I want to contribute towards new critical stances about the geopolitics of the Anthropocene today. In previous work, drawing on my doctoral thesis, I analyzed nineteenth century debates about the politics of territorial order, through the unusual imaginations of three anarchists.

Political parties, party systems, party positioning

Political discourse, propaganda, media trust & media use, civic engagement

ASEAN Economic Integration, Politics of Trade Policy, Public Sector. 

Lars Rensmann has left the University of Groningen in April 2022 to become Professor of Political Science and Comparative Government at the University of Passau. https://www.phil.uni-passau.de/en/lehrstuehle/prof-lars-rensmann/ Lars Rensmann is Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen. He serves as the Chair of the Department of European Languages and Cultures and as Director of the Research Centre for the Study of Democratic Cultures and Politics. He is a member of several Editorial Boards. Before joining RUG, he served as Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome, where he is still a Visiting Professor. Prior to his return to Europe, he was the DAAD Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Rensmann holds a BA in Political Science from Luther College, Iowa, and an MA and PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin. Other previous academic appointments and visiting professorships at Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Vienna, LMU Munich, and the University of Haifa, among many others. Fields of research: comparative politics & government in Europe and the US and in global perspective; European and American political cultures, parties, systems, and crises of democracy; European and American radical right and populist parties; populist parties in government; social media and digital populism; conspiracy myths, racism, antisemitism and counter-cosmopolitanism in Europe and the US; European, American, and global politics and sports; German politics in European context; European and global political theory; history of international political, democratic and critical theories and their contemporary relevance; human rights and politico-cultural legacies of the Holocaust and genocide; the politics of climate change in Europe and the US. In 2019, Prof. Rensmann received the Faculty of Arts' "Lecturer of the Year" Award.

      Dr. Arianna Rotulo works as Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen – Campus Fryslan. She got her PhD in Primary Care and Public Health from Queen Mary University of London in May 2022 with a research project on the effects of fiscal decentralization on equitable access to healthcare services.      Arianna combines econometrics, economic geography, and the political economy of health to understand the role of healthcare services in the distribution and development of avoidable healthcare disparities. Currently she is interested in interdisciplinary research on health systems preparedness, international health governance, and degrowth. Arianna also coordinates the Global Equity and Resilient Health Systems course and teaches Principles of Economics, Statistics, and Research Methods at Campus Fryslan. Arianna is part of an international team based at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, working on the project ‘IMF and Health Care Reforms in Europe’, funded by ELIDEK. Between 2021 and 2022 Arianna acted as a consultant to the San Gallicano Institute on how to improve the welfare of the vulnerable population of Rome, within the Mi.Fa.Bene project, involving the Municipality of Rome, the Italian Ministry of Interior, and the European Commission. 

I am a political philosopher with an insatiable interest in compromise. I study collective decision-making in various contexts, including religious accommodation, workplace diversity, democratic politics and institutional design. I have also written on the right of exit from voluntary associations, such as marriage, employment and religious groups. I am currently serving as interim programme director of University College Fryslân.

Prior to joining the University of Groningen, I contributed to two projects as a postdoctoral researcher, one on public life and religious diversity (University of Oxford, 2016-2019) and another on the ethics of voting (Horizon 2020 Grant, Sciences Po Paris, 2019-2020). I completed my PhD at Sciences Po Paris (2016) and was a Fox Fellow at Yale University (2013-2014) and an Alliance visiting scholar at Columbia University (2015). 

Political communication, political rhetoric, text as data, research methods.

Climate Change Adaptation
Environmental Governance
Sustainability Transformations
Digital Democratic Innovations
FinTech Innovation and Climate Finance

Cultural Economy (Economy as Culture), Neoliberalism
Social Entrepreneurship, Solidarity Economy
Happiness, Creativity
Sociology of Space, Practice Theory, Governmentality & Subjectivity
Radical Politics, Protest, Radical Imagination
Greece, Egypt
Orientalism
Qualitative Research, Pragmatism, Abductive Analysis

Gender Inequality, Globalization, Redistribution, Inequality, Discrimination, Social Conflicts, International Conflicts

Regulation, soft law, policy rules, administrative law, social security law.

European integration and institutions
State theory and institutionalism
Concept analysis and qualitative methods
Italian politics

European integration, memory studies, contemporary continental political theory, twentieth century intellectual history

conflict and security studies; political ecology; political geography

Security studies

Global Politics of Disease and Health
International Political Sociology
Critical Security Studies

Political parties and party systems in the Netherlands and the European Union

IR Theory, Security Studies, European Studies, Global Governance, Energy & Geopolitics

Climate change regulation, emissions trading, tradable rights https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edwin-Woerdman

Latest publication: Rensmann, L., & de Zee, T. (2022). The Pandemic Factor: The COVID-19 Crisis in the Alternative for Germany's 2021 Federal Election Campaign. German Politics and Society, 40(4), 69-103. (link)

Political Science

Social and political implications of new media technologies, Political communication,Citizen (dis)engagement, polarization

Democratization, Regime change, International Politics, China, Belt and Road Initiative, Asia