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I have been at the University of Manchester since 1994, as a Professor since 2006. Before coming to Manchester I completed a doctorate at St Antony's College, Oxford, under the supervision of Mary McAuley. From 1991-94 I was a Junior Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
I have been the sole principal investigator on two ESRC grants (R00022676, R000230880), the outputs of both of which were rated "outstanding" by ESRC assessors, and the recipient of numerous small grants from the British Academy and other bodies. In 2005 my co-authored book Cold Peace won the Alec Nove Prize of the British Association of Slavic and East European Studies for its "outstanding contribution to the field" and was selected as a CHOICE "Outstanding Academic Title." Another co-authored volume, Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union (2020) was recently named a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021. I have been a member of the ESRC Politics, Economics and Geography Research College, Chair of the Validation Panel for the Moscow School of Social Sciences, and was, from 2021-2024, the Head of Politics. In 2020 I became a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. For the academic year 2024-25 I have been awarded a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship for my project on A Soviet Rule of Law: Justice and the Constitution in Soviet Russia.
While my research centres on Russia and the Soviet Union, it touches on broader themes in the theory of dictatorship, on the rule of law, and on the dynamics of trust networks. I am glad to supervise Ph.D. dissertations on any of these themes and on a wide range of current or historical topics relating to Russia and Eurasia.
I am currently engaged in three research projects:
Teaching:
For 13 years, from 1994-2007, I was one of two principal lecturers in the Department's introductory course to Politics, Government I (Poli10201). Although I have now stopped teaching on that course, I run a popular third year course on contemporary Russian politics (Poli30072).
I have supervised eleven Ph.D. students to completion, four of whom have gone on to permanent academic posts in the UK, while others have gone on to positions at, among others, Manchester City Council, the European Commission and in the banking sector. I am happy to take on doctoral students working on Russia, Eurasia and on theories of dictatorship.
Current Ph.D. Students
Past Ph.D. Students
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review