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I am Lecturer in European and Comparative Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations of the University of Kent. I previously held teaching appointments at the Royal Holloway college of the University of London, at the London School of Economics and at the University of Surrey. I was educated at the University of Turin [Laurea Social Sciences], at the University of Durham [MA European Integration], at the London School of Economics [PhD Government] and at the University of Kent [PGCHE]. I am fluent in English, French and Italian, have intermediate knowledge of Spanish and some basic German. My research activity is concerned with analysing the evolving connections between statehood, nationality and democracy, with a particular focus on the European Union, Switzerland and other multi-level systems. I am the author of Between Two Unions: Europeanisation and Scottish Devolution, published by Manchester University Press, and of articles in Political Studies, Party Politics, Regional and Federal Studies, Nations and Nationalism, the Swiss Political Science Review and the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft. I helped set up Kent's Centre for Federal Studies of which I am the Deputy Director. I teach undergraduate modules on European state and regional politics and a postgraduate module on decision-making in the EU. I am the director of the MA in European Governance and of the BA in Politics and International Relations (Bi-diplôme) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, the British professional body for HE teachers. I have been visiting professor at the universities of Madrid Autonoma and Barcelona Pompeu Fabra, Spain; Krakow Jagiellonian, Poland; and Siena, Italy and given guest lectures at several other universities. I am widely participating in the service of the profession, as co-editor for both Routledge's Federal Studies series and the Book Reviews section of Regional and Federal Studies and as a referee for funding bodies, peer-reviewed journals and academic presses, including the ESRC, the British Academy, Political Studies, the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Regional and Federal Studies, Publius, Nations and Nationalism, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. I am an active member of the main professional associations in political science worldwide: PSA, ECPR, APSA, IPSA, UACES, EUSA. I am also involved in shaping public policy through consultancy work and commentary for the international media. I have advised the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Swiss Embassy in London and the Institut européen pour la coopération territoriale and given evidence to the House of Lords. I contribute to Oxford Analytica, have published articles in La Jornada and letters in Times Higher Education, The Economist and The European and have been interviewed by BBC News 24, BBC Radio 4, European Voice, Facts, World Radio Switzerland, SwissInfo, Swisster, Rzeczpospolita, South China Morning Post, Metro, Campaigns and Elections and Invicta FM. |