Senior Lecturer in Social Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine My research interests include interdisciplinary work on sexual and reproductive health, particularly sexual behaviour and contraception among young people, as well as maternal and newborn health, health promotion, and involving communities in promoting health. I have an overarching interest in methodology and developing methods to investigate complex social interventions. I hold an undergraduate degree in Human Sciences from Oxford, MSc Medical Demography at LSHTM, and an interdisciplinary PhD and postdoc in young people's sexual behaviour and behaviour change, with fieldwork in Mexico City. I spent some time at Imperial College London where I conducted research and ran a Public Health MSc, returning to LSHTM in 2005.
Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen I am a social scientist and health services researcher working on the integration of new health technologies (wearables, apps) into health and social care.
Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, University of Leicester Katja Ziegler is Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law. Her current research concerns the constitutionalisation and intersection of legal orders in an international, European and comparative law context, in particular by human rights; and limits on executive power to resort to military force in constitutional and international law. She has been consultant to the European Parliament on the implementation of the Charter on Fundamental Rights and expert witness to the House of Lords’ Constitution Committee in its inquiry on war-making powers of the Government. She has been invited speaker at conferences in the UK, Australia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the USA. Previously, she has been Reader in European and Comparative Law and Erich Brost University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Fellow in Law and a Fellow of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford (2007-12) and DAAD Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Oxford (2002-2007). She also was and a lecturer at the University of Bielefeld, Germany (1995-2001). She is a qualified Rechtsanwältin (Barrister-Solicitor) and has worked in the Brussels office of an international law firm before returning to academia in 2002. She teaches in the area of public international, human rights, EU law and comparative constitutional law.
Senior Research Associate in EU Environmental Politics, University of East Anglia I studied sustainable development and European Union politics throughout my undergraduate and postgraduate studies in France, Denmark and the UK (2005-2010). After two years at a leading French environmental think tank (IDDRI) I went back to academia to study for a PhD in EU environmental politics at the University of East Anglia (2012-2016). I am now a Senior Research fellow at UEA working on environment and the EU referendum.
Professor of European Politics, Queen's University Belfast David Phinnemore is Professor of European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Science in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. He is also Dean of Education in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen's University Belfast, as well as Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) where he teaches on EU enlargement. He holds a BA in European Studies (1990) and was awarded his PhD in European Studies by the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1998. His teaching interests are focused on the European Union, notably its institutions, decision-making procedures, external relations and enlargement. His research interests cover EU treaty reform, EU enlargement, EU external relations and alternatives to EU membership, particularly association.
Visiting Researcher in International Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand Dr Desné Masie is visiting researcher at the Wits School of Governance in international political economy. Her research programme is primarily in international economics, covering financialisation, poverty and inequality, and African geopolitical economy. She is the co-host of the African Arguments podcast, an economics contributor to The Times, and an associate of the Democracy Works Foundation. She was a capital markets editor at the Financial Mail in Johannesburg, and the corporate relationship manager of the Royal African Society in London. She has had invited speaking engagements at the Frontline Club and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. She holds a PhD in Finance (Edinburgh), MSc Finance & Financial Law (London), BA Hons (Unisa) and BA (Wits).
