Dr Muzaffer Kutlay joined CCCU as Senior Lecturer in Law and Politics in April 2023. She previously held positions at the University of Oxford, where she worked as co-Investigator to the Oxford Belarus Observatory (OBO) (2021-23) Project and Research Fellow at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA).
Prior to that she was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate for the GCRF COMPASS (2017-19, £4mln), leading WP3 on Policy Impact and contributing to WP2 on Research Integration. The COMPASS project was highly commended by the Times Higher Education in 2021, under the category of the Best International Collaboration of the Year.
Before this, Muzaffer was a Lecturer in European Foreign Policy at King’s College London (2019–2021) and a Lecturer in East European Politics at the University of Kent, where she also served as a Research Assistant on the Horizon 2020 UPTAKE project (2017–2019).
She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent and an MA from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.
She is the author of "The path to democratic reform: Bulgaria in comparative perspective" (London: Routledge, 2024).