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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, based in Canterbury, UK. I previously held 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 democracy, nationality and statehood, 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, 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 given guest lectures at the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, Scotland; Lille 2, France; Berne, Switzerland; Siena, Italy; Madrid Autonoma and UNED, Spain; Krakow Jagiellonian, Poland; Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine and Tyumen, Russia. I am widely participating in the service of the profession, as a referee for the ESRC, Political Studies, the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Regional and Federal Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Local Government Studies, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, and as the Book Reviews Editor of Regional and Federal Studies. 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 and have published articles in La Jornada and letters in Times Higher Education, The Economist and The European. I have been interviewed by BBC News 24, BBC Radio 4, European Voice, Facts, World Radio Switzerland, SwissInfo, Rzeczpospolita, South China Morning Post, Metro, Campaigns and Elections and Invicta FM. |