PhD Profiles

We are home to a vibrant community of PhD researchers exploring topics from federalism and crisis to political leadership in Russia. 

If you are interested in studying for a PhD at CCCU, email politics@canterbury.ac.uk and place 'PhD' in the heading. We will then direct you to a potential supervisor.

Current PhD students

Kehinde Abolarin Nigeria Foreign Policy: A Focus on the Development of the National Economy	PROFILE
Rachael Coker Migration and Local Governance	PROFILE
Nick Coleman Methods and application of Peace and State-Building within Syria and other post-conflict areas	PROFILE
Chloe Doherty Multidimensional Factors of Conflict Resolution: A Case Study of Northern Ireland’s 1998 Good Friday Agreement	PROFILE
Kumba Krubally Securitisation of Migration: A look at EU Migration Policy in Libya and Niger and its impact on human rights	PROFILE
Amel Lamri Neofunctionalist Reading: African Union Integration and Algeria	PROFILE
Saliha Smaine Arab Solidarity in Practice:  Sense of Belonging and Integration of Syrian Refugees in Tunisia and Jordan	PROFILE
Francesco Violi New paths of asymmetrical federalism in the EU: the Eurozone as a federal system	PROFILE
Lillian Woolgar Marxism and Intersectionality	PROFILE

Past PhD projects

• Reclaiming the collective agency capability of civil society - Razia Shariff
• Strong Mayors’ Leadership Capital: New York, London & Amsterdam - Max Stafford
• ‘Enlightenment Liberalism and the Challenge of Pluralism’ – Matthew Jones
• 'The Limits of Territorial Autonomy: Secession in Liberal Democratic States' - Paul Anderson
• 'Federalism and crisis' - Simon Bransden
• 'Nostalgia, historical memory and the Tea Party' - James Gates
• 'The role of the EU in security sector reform' - Anastasiia Kudlenko
• 'United States foreign policy and human rights' - Amina M'lili