UNDERGRADUATE

Winner of University of Sussex Teaching Award, Established Faculty Category, 2012.

Winner of the PSA's Bernard Crick Award for Outstanding Teaching, New Entrants Prize, 2005.

Research Skills and Methods in Political Science (UG1)

Political Governance: Modern Germany (UG2)

Political Corruption (UG3)



POSTGRADUATE

Convenor of the MA Corruption and Governance





PhD SUPERVISION

I have supervised 12 PhD students from start to finish.

• Nassar Abaalkhail. 'The effectiveness of internal control in tackling corruption'. Nassar now works for Nazaha, the Saudi Arabian anti-corruption agency.
• Liljana Cvetanoska. 'Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe: The influence of the European Union on the control of corruption in the Czech Republic, Macedonia and Romania' (funded by a Chancellor's International Research Scholarship').
• Rebecca Dobson Phillips. ‘Institutional corruption and UK policy-making; the case of climate change policy’ (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council). 
• Riccardo D’Emidio. ‘Social norms and perceptions of integrity in Ghana’. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/207450
• Irasema Guzman. 'Corruption in post-award procurement projects in Mexico'
• Uche Igwe. 'The Politics of Anti-Corruption in Nigeria'.
• Dan Keith. 'Party organisation and party adaptation; Western European communist and successor parties' (funded by the ESRC). 
• Moletsane Monyake. 'Anti-Corruption Reform, Political Will and Collective Action in Sub-Saharan Africa' (funded by a Commonwealth Scholarship). 
• Miguel Otaola. 'Election Results: When, where and under what conditions are they accepted? A global comparative study' (funded by the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology). Miguel is now Head of Programme for the Mexico and Central America Office of IDEA. 
• Sam Power. 'Party Funding Regimes and Corruption in Western Europe: Linkages, Relationships and Trends' (funded by the ESRC). 
• Ziqian Wang. 'Populism and populist politicians in the politics of Taiwan'
• Yang Wu. 'Narratives of (anti-)corruption in Xi Jinping's China'

CURRENT PhD STUDENTS

I currently supervise five PhD students. They write on a variety of corruption-related issues. I welcome PhD applications in all areas where I have previously done research. The students that I currently supervise are;

- John Lawes. 'Under what conditions are preventative anti-corruption agencies effective? A comparative study of Italy, France, and South Korea' 

- Maria Maitou. 'German hegemony in the EU: Intentional or Inadvertent? The road to German Europe'.

- Tom Shipley. ‘The role of monitoring, evaluation and learning in narrowing the evidence gap in the anti-corruption field’, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

- Kenneth Mohammed. 'An analysis of the legacy of colonialism in the Caribbean and its impact on the character and logics of corruption across the region'

- Matthew Price. 'Corruption and supreme audit institutions'.