CEUS Team
Dr
Rüdiger Wurzel (Jean Monnet Chair in European Union
Studies and Director of CEUS)
Main EU-related research interests:
Institutional aspects of the EU (including the office of the EU
Presidency, the EP, Commission, Council and European Council);
constitutional developments (including Treaty amendments and the EU
constitution), EU decision-making and policy-making; EU policies:
environmental policy, Single European Market (SEM), Economic and
Monetary Union (EMU) and structural policies and social policies;
Policy instruments: new modes of governance (including ‘new'
environmental policy instruments (NEPIs) such as eco-taxes,
emission trading, voluntary agreements and labelling schemes) and
traditional regulation.
He has attracted many research grants from funding bodies such
as the ESRC, Nuffield Foundation and Anglo-German Foundation and
has published widely on EU-related
issues.
Email: R.K.Wurzel@hull.ac.uk
Prof James
Connelly
Main EU-related research interests:
EU environmental policy; the accession of Turkey to the EU.
His EU-related publications include: Politics and the
Environment: From Theory to Practice and conference papers on
‘The role of the citizen in EU environmental governance';
‘The European Union and Sustainable Development: Lifeboat
or Shipwreck?'
Email: J.Connelly@hull.ac.uk
Dr Xiudian
Dai
Main EU-related research interests:
EU trade and technology policy; EU audio-visual and
telecommunications policies; EU policy and regulation of the
information society; policy networks and networked governance;
EU-China relations; e-Democracy in Europe.
His EU-related publications include: The Digital Revolution and
Governance (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000); Corporate Strategy,
Public Policy and New Technologies: Philips and the European
Consumer Electronics Industry (Oxford: Pergamon, 1996).
Email: X.Dai@hull.ac.uk
Prof Jack
Hayward
Main EU-related research interests:
After serving as Director of the Oxford University Centre for
European Politics, Economics and Society from 1993-98, he has since
1999 been Research Professor of Politics in Hull. His research
interest is indicated by his EU-related edited publications:
Governing the New Europe, Polity Press, 1995;
Industrial Enterprise and European Integration: From National
to International Champions in Western Europe, Oxford
University Press, 1995; The Crisis of Representation in
Europe, Frank Cass, 1995; Elitism, Populism and European
Politics, Oxford University Press, 1996; Governing
Europe, Oxford University Press, 2003. He organised a
CEUS funded conference on 'Leaderless Europe' at Hull University on
30 September - 1 October 2005. The revised conference papers were
published as Leaderless Europe, Oxford University Press,
2008.
Email: jeshayward@hotmail.com
Dr Cristina Leston-Bandeira
Main EU-related research interests:
Parliaments in Europe; the development of newly democratic
parliaments in Europe; The Portuguese parliament; Southern European
Parliaments; The use of the internet by parliaments in Europe; the
ethical implications in the use of the internet for parliamentary
democracy in Europe.
Email: C.C.Leston-Bandeira@hull.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth
Monaghan
Main EU-related research interests:
Issues of democracy and legitimacy in the EU and reforms aimed at
enhancing the democratic and legitimacy credentials of the EU
political system. The role of organised civil society in the EU in
processes of policy-making and constitution-making. Debate and
deliberation in EU decision-making. The use of evidence-based
policy, and the EBP paradigm in studies of EU policy-making
processes.
Email: E.Monaghan@hull.ac.uk
Professor Noel
O'Sullivan
Main EU-related research interests:
contemporary European political thought,
especially conceptions of European unity, on the one hand, and
sources of extremism which gave rise to fascism and terrorism, on
the other.
EU related publications reflecting these
interests include:
European Political Thought since 1945
((Palgrave Macmillan 2004).
‘European political identity and the problem
of cultural diversity’, Journal of Applied
Philosophy, vol. 17, no. 3, 2000, pp. 237-251.
‘Visions of European unity since 1945’ (a
lecture delivered to the British Academy), Proceedings of the
British Academy, 154, pp. 93-127, Dec. 2008.
‘The concepts of the public, the private
and the political in contemporary western political theory,’
in a Special Issue guest edited of the Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy,vol. 12,
ii, June 2009. (This has subsequently been published by
Routledge as a book.)
Email: N.K.OSullivan@hull.ac.uk
Gianluca Andresani
(Business School)
Main EU-related research interests:
European Higher Education Policy and Politics; Corporate
Governance; European Political, Social and Organisational
Theory.
His EU-related publications include: Andresani, G and Ferlie, E
(2006)'Studying Governance Within the British Public Sector and
Without: Theoretical and Methodological Issues', included in the
Public Management Review 2006 8 (3) (pp. 414-431), a Special Issue
(roundtable) on Governance he co-edited; Ferlie, E. and Andresani,
G (forthcoming) 'UK National Case, 1960s-2007: From Bureau
Professionalism Towards New Public Management?' in Paradeise, C,
Reale, E., Bleiklie, I and Ferlie, E. (eds) The Steering of Higher
Education Systems since 1980: Comparing National Reforms in France,
Germany, Italy, the Neatherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United
Kingdom, Springer
Email: g.andresani@hull.ac.uk
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CEUS researchers please click on their names.
A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Co-Funded
by the European
Commission