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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A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Co-Funded by the European Commission