Our staff
staff categories
These are our Birkbeck staff categories within the Department of Politics.
Assistant Dean
Academic staff
- Samantha Ashenden
- Dr Jasmine Bhatia
- Matthijs van den Bos
- Dr Chao-yo Cheng
- Alejandro Colas
- Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos
- Jason Edwards
- Ali Burak Güven
- Dr Kai Heron
- Dermot Hodson
- Dr Laszlo Horvath
- Eric Kaufmann
- Deborah Mabbett
- Barry Maydom
- Laura Richards-Gray
- Robert Singh
- David Styan
- Benjamin Worthy
Sessional teaching / Post-doctoral Research staff
- John Berryman
- Patrick Coupar
- Noman Hanif
- Simon Jarrett
- Kevin Manton
- Dale Mineshima-Lowe
- Iacopo Mugnai
Emeritus staff
- Diana Coole: Professor of Political and Social Theory: Diana Coole's broad area of research is modern and contemporary political and social theory. Her work has focused on the critical theory of the early Frankfurt School and its influences (Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber), existential phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty in particular), poststructuralism (especially Foucault) and feminism. Within this field, Coole has become interested in developing a flexible critical theory (that includes genealogy, deconstruction, the phenomenology of everyday - and visceral - life, interpretive public policy, discourse analysis, ideology critique and radical political economy) and applying it to current social and political issues. Email Diana Coole.
- Joni Lovenduski: Professor Emerita of Politics: Joni Lovenduski is Anniversary Professor of Politics, has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2007 and was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2009. She is Chair of the Editorial Board of Political Quarterly and a member of the editorial boards of British Politics, The British Journal of Political Science and French Politics. Lovenduski has two main strands of current research interests: political representation and the development and implementation of equality policy in the UK and the European Union. Email Joni Lovenduski.
- Sami Zubaida: Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology
Visiting staff
- Philip Spencer: Philip Spencer was the founder and director of the Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Rights, Conflict and Mass Violence at Kingston University. He is currently working on a study of cosmopolitanism and antisemitism (for Bloomsbury), followed by a longer history of genocide (for Reaktion Books). He is an associate of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism; a trustee of the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide; a member of the European Sociological Association Research Network for the Study of Racism and Antisemitism; and of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Email Philip Spencer
- Richard Clarke: Richard Clarke taught at Birkbeck from 1988 to 2011, where he was responsible for the postgraduate programmes in Countryside and Protected Area Management and in Heritage and Environmental Interpretation, and for the Graduate Diploma in Ecology and Conservation. Since 2013, he has been Visiting Scholar at PrOBE, Westminster Business School, University of Westminster. In 2016, he was the Ben Pimlott Writer in Residence. Richard currently undertakes research, evaluation and training related to heritage management with an emphasis on community engagement and working at a 'landscape' scale. Email Richard Clarke.
- Jaspreet Kaur (writer in residence)
- Professor John Bercow
- Carlos Reyes Manzo
Administrative Staff
- Anne-Marie Taylor, Team Leader, tel: +44 020 3926 1571
- Rachel Llewellyn, Postgraduate and Research, tel: +44 020 3926 1572 or contact postgraduate politics via email.
- Mitch Fryer, Undergraduate and Certificate, tel: +44 020 3926 1834 or contact undergraduate politics via email.
- Dan Parnell, BA Politics, Philosophy and History Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life, tel: +44 020 3926 1574 or contact undergraduate politics via email.