Research

Research interests

Political Theory, Government, Groups, Identities and Social Movements, Political thought and ideologies, History, Ideology, Institutions and organisations, Liberalism, Nationalism, Public Sphere, Republicanism, Socialism, States

Teresa M. Bejan is Professor of Political Theory and a Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford. She arrived in Oxford from the University of Toronto in 2015.

In 2021, Prof Bejan was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Politics, which celebrates early career researchers who have already achieved international recognition and have exceptional future promise. 

Dr Harry Verhoeven is an Associate Member of the Department of Politics & International Relations at the University of Oxford and the Convenor of the Oxford University China-Africa Network (OUCAN). He is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy and teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University. He is the author of Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan. The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building (Cambridge University Press) and Why Comrades Go To War.

Louise Fawcett is Professor of International Relations and Fellow of St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. She works on comparative regionalism and the international relations of the Global South, particularly the Middle East.

Professional Activities

Degrees

DLitt. (Doctor of Letters) (2015), University of Oxford.

PhD. (1985) and M.A. (1981) in Political Science, Northwestern University.

Recipient of the David Minar dissertation Award.

B.A. Moderatorship (Honours) in Political and Social Science (1979), Trinity College Dublin.

First Class Honours (1979). Bastable Prize (co-recipient) for top placing in Final Honours School.

Selected fellowships and distinctions

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2017

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is Full Professor of Political Science at CERI Sciences Po. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford and co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance, University of Oxford. Soares de Oliveira is also joint editor of OUP’s Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations and a fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.

Research

I work primarily in the fields of public opinion and electoral behaviour, with a focus on Britain and the EU. My research over the last decade or so has had three main themes: