Current and Recent Postdoctoral Fellows in SPAIS
Current Post-Doctoral Fellows:
Dr Nadil Fadil: A comparative case study of Secular Moroccan Muslims in
London, Paris and Amsterdam, (mentor Prof Tariq Modood) ESRC funded,
July 2013 – July 2015
Dr Will Atkinson: Mapping the British Social Space: Rethinking Class Analysis
for the Twenty-First Century, (mentor Prof Gregor McLennan) British academy
funded, January 2012 – December 2014
Dr Parveen Akthar: Transnational Islam in transnational families. The
transformation of religion and politics across borders and generations: the
case of migration flows between Pakistan and Britain (mentor Prof Paul
Stratham). British Academy funding 2011-2014.
Recent Post-Doctoral Fellows:
Dr Ranji Devadason: Transnational Moral and Market Entrepreneurs:
carriers, drivers and products of globalisation (mentor Prof Paul Statham)
British Academy funded, 2008-11.
Dr Elizabeth Evans on gender and politics, women’s political representation,
and British party politics: Women’s Representation and the Liberal Democrats
(mentor Prof Sarah Childs) ESRC funded, 2009-10.
Dr Richard McMahon on cultural and political geography, European
integration, the English school, and political and historical constructions of
race and identity: The Races of Europe: Construction of Political Identities in
Physical Anthropology, 1830-1945 (mentor Prof Richard Little) ESRC funded,
2009-10.
Dr Wendy Martineau on cross-cultural understanding: Promoting Justice
and Dialogue within and between Cultures: Multiculturalism and British
Muslims (mentor Prof Judith Squires) ESRC funded, 2008-10.
Dr Alex Prichard on anarchism, international relations theory: Justice, Order
and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon,
1809-1865 (mentor Dr Jutta Weldes) ESRC funded, 2009-10.
Dr Will Atkinson : The Individualised Worker (mentor Prof Harriet Bradley)
ESRC funded, 2009-10. Will is now a Research Associate on an ESRC
funded project at the University of Bristol and will take up a British Academy
funded postdoctoral fellowship in January 2012 at the University of Bristol.
Dr Parveen Akhtar: Religion, Ethnicity and Political Participation: a study
of young British Pakistani Muslims in the UK (mentor Prof Paul Statham)
ESRC funded, 2008-09. Parveen took up a British Academy funded
postdoctoral fellowship in January 2011 at the University of Bristol
Dr Victoria Basham on social diversity, identity, military masculinities and
civil-military relations: Contesting Social Diversity in the British Armed
Forces: Military Doctrine, Society and the Limits to Identity (mentor Dr Tim
Edmunds) ESRC funded, 2007-08. Victoria is currently an Honorary
Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant, University of Bristol.
Dr Claire Tinker: The Debate over State Funding of Muslim Schools in
Britain (mentor Prof Tariq Modood) ESRC funded 2006-09
Dr Agita Luse: Mental Distress in Relation to Social Exclusion: the case of
Latvia and prospects of a comparative study (mentor Prof Ruth Levitas)
ESRC funded 2006.
Dr Karen Morgan: Sociological and Practical Implications of
Representations of Women who Experience Violence (mentor Prof Harriet
Bradley) ESRC funded 2006.
Dr Daniel Conway on masculinities, conscientious objection, peace activism
and militarisation: Contesting the Masculine State: War Resistance in
Apartheid South Africa (mentor Dr Jutta Weldes) ESRC funded, 2006-07.
Daniel is now a Lecturer in the Department of Politics, International Relations
and European Studies, University of Loughborough.
Dr Alina Zilberman on public opinion, foreign policy and democratisation
Democratisation, Foreign Policy and the Public Sphere: Case of Post-Soviet
Russia (mentor Prof Richard Little) ESRC funded, 2006-07. Alina is now a
Teaching Fellow at the European Research Institute, University of
Birmingham.
Dr Matthew Cole: Aspects of Moral Regulations in Sociological and
Governmental Discourses and Practices (mentor Prof Ruth Levitas) ESRC
funded, 2005-06.
Dr Ranji Devadason: Young Adults’ Working Lives in two European
‘Globalising’ Cities: Dissemination of key findings (mentor Ms Jackie West)
ESRC funded, 2005-06. Ranji has worked as a research assistant on an EU
funded project and now has a BA funded 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at the
University of Bristol.
Dr Johanna Kantola on feminism, the state, and state feminism: Gender and
the State: Comparisons of Feminist Discourses in Finland and Britain (mentor
Dr Jutta Weldes) ESRC funded 2005-06. Johanna is currently a Senior
Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki.
Dr Mona Lena Krook on gender quotas and women’s political participation:
Politicising Representation: Campaigning to Increase Women’s Political
Participation Worldwide (mentor Prof Judith Squires) 2005-06. Mona is an
Associate Professor of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies,
Washington University, St. Louis;
Dr Marina Prieto-Caron on gender, work and corporate social responsibility:
Gender, Work and Corporate Social Responsibility in Textile and Banana
Production in Central America (mentor Dr Jutta Weldes) 2005-06. Marina is
currently a Visiting Fellow in the School of Geographical Sciences, University
of Bristol.