Dr Dion Curry
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Dr Curry is an Associate Professor in Politics and Public Policy, working on political trust, political legitimacy, governance, expertise/epistemic communities, and disruptive technologies. He also serves as the Research Lead of Swansea’s School of Social Sciences and the unit’s Deputy Environment Lead for REF’28. Among other projects, he currently investigates the psychological underpinnings of citizen perceptions of trust in expertise, supported by a MASI Summit Grant led by Dr Gabi Jiga-Boy (School of Psychology), and the impact and governance of blockchain technology.
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Dr Bettina Petersohn
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Dr Petersohn is a Senior Lecturer in Politics, working on comparative federalism, intergovernmental coordination, and local democracy. She serves as the Co-Lead of the Horizontal Coordination Working Group of IGCOORD (Intergovernmental Coordination from Local to European Governance). Among other projects, her research currently focuses on local government coordination in the UK, with a special focus on the relation between political and economic factors, political homophily, and problem pressure. In addition, Dr Petersohn works with UK and international scholars on a survey project on municipal councillors in Europe, focusing on their autonomy, policy influence, and public perception across institutional contexts.
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Dr Caner Sayan
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Dr Sayan is a Lecturer in Policy Analysis who specializes in the politics of water, environmental justice, water governance, and climate change. He has a special interest in climate change adaptation in Africa, Turkey, and the Middle East. Among other projects, he is currently working on drought resilience of smallholder farmers in Kenya and water and regionalism in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin. Dr Sayan serves on the steering committee of Swansea’s Climate Action Research Institute and the Faculty’s Climate Action Research Network.
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Dr Kristan Stoddart
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Kristan Stoddart is an Associate Professor for Cyber Threats in the School of Social Sciences and also works with the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. He is a member of the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2022 he was also made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He has recently completed three books, including Cyberwar: Threats to Critical Infrastructure (Palgrave/Springer, 2022). The other books respectively examine Russia’s cyber offensive against the West and China’s embrace of offensive cyber espionage. In addition, he is engaged in a research project examining EU resilience to hybrid warfare funded by the European Union.
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Dr Matthew Wall
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Dr Wall is an Associate Professor in Politics and Head of the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and International Relations. His research is on comparative politics, elections and public opinion, election forecasting, vote advice applications, and electoral systems. Dr Wall’s research has been supported, among others, by The Robert Carr Fund, the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust, and the Learned Society of Wales. His current projects focus on digital politics, including the use of non-partisan innovations like voting advice applications in election campaigns, real-time election forecasting, and democratic engagement.
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Dr Louis Bromfield
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Dr Bromfield is a researcher of political engagement, gamification, political forecasting and participation. He holds a BA in Politics, an MSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Politics from Swansea University. His PhD thesis, funded by the Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarship, examined the psychological impact of using an on-line political forecasting platform. In 2022 he used a UKRI Challenges fund worth £12,932 to conduct a field experiment with 500 participants using his own forecasting website. He aims to continue his research on gamified political forecasting, looking to cover more elections to add to his PhD’s focus on the UK Local Elections in May 2023.
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Professor Jonathan Bradbury
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Professor Bradbury researches the territorial politics of how the UK is governed, relating both to devolved and local government. He is interested in analysing the statecraft of governing, as well as political, policy and representation implications of territorial government. His recent work has focused on the analysis of devolution since the late 1990s and includes his book Constitutional Policy and Territorial Politics in the UK: Union and Devolution, 1997-2007 (Bristol University Press, 2021). Since 2021, he has been Associate Dean in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, responsible for Research, Innovation and Impact. He is also Lead for the University’s ESRC and AHRC Impact Acceleration Accounts.
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Dr Bryn Willcock
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Dr Willcock has been teaching at Swansea University since 1995. His main teaching and research interests focus upon American foreign policy, American history, terrorism, nuclear history as well as British and European politics. Dr Willcock has been involved in the publication of books by both Oxford University Press and Taylor and Francis. In 2010 he was involved in the European-wide PartiRep research project, a comparative study of linkage mechanisms between citizens and the political system. In 2014 he was engaged as a consultant on British public policy during the creation of the EUVOX voting project, a website allowing voters to compare their views to those of different political parties.
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