Research

Mukwashi, T., Lowton, Z. (2026) Why Global Collaboration Matters in Higher Education [blog post]

Ostojski, J., Toomey, M., Judge, A., Morrison, J. (2026) Serious Play: Board Games as Pedagogical Tools (2) - Class Struggle.

Tsafos, Y. D., Ramanan, S., Cheng, W., Misic, G., Selvaretnam, G. (2026) Generative AI in Collaborative Learning: Evidence from a Classroom Case Study. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice,

Morrison, J., Bratton, J. (2026) Power and leadership. SAGE Publications

Toomey, M. (2026) Serious Play: Board Games as Pedagogical Tools (1)- Tammany Hall.

Lowton, Z. (2026) Urban transformation initiatives in Johannesburg and public space user perceptions. Cities, 168, (doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106436)

Toomey, M. (2025) Vulnerability and empathy in university teaching: framing the empowered classroom. Journal of Education on the Margins, 1, pp. 39-48. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18018170)

Cawley, F., Cook, V., Hay, K. (2025) Reflecting on 'true collaboration' [blog post]

Tsafos, Y., Ramanan, S., Cheng, W., Misic, G., Selvaretnam, G. (2025) Impact of Generative AI on student engagement in diverse groups. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 37, (doi: 10.47408/jldhe.vi37.1718)

Cook, V., Cawley, F. (2025) Transition to active learning: introducing widening participation students to active learning. Open Press University of Sussex

Toomey, M. (2025) European Union Enlargement and Democratisation: The Normative Disconnect in Hungary and Czechia. Edinburgh University Press

Miller, C., Morrison, J. (2025) Feminist pedagogy within constraints: teaching reflective writing in a UK higher education institution. Gender and Education, 37, pp. 653-669. (doi: 10.1080/09540253.2025.2508761)

Cassie, N. (2025) Narratives in East Asia and Beyond. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Using Narratives as a Research Method. Europe-Asia Studies, 77, pp. 838-839. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2025.2504756)

McKay, L., Claassen, C., Bankov, P., Carman, C. (2025) Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives. Electoral Studies, 95, (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102937)

Claassen, C., Göbel, S., Lang, A., Ackermann, K., Bankov, P., Brookes, K., Cappellina, B., Carman, C., Freitag, M., García Del Horno, R., Hernández, E., Rico, G., Rossteutscher, S., Traunmüller, R., Webb, M., Zmerli, S., Zumbrunn, A. (2025) Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe. Electoral Studies, 95, (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102912)

Cawley, F., Cook, V. (2025) In Pursuit of a Successful Student Experience: Increasing Academic Staff Engagement.

Cook, V. (2025) Why Become an Undergraduate History Student in the Social Sciences? Reflecting on Recruitment in Economic and Social History.

Cawley, F., Cook, V., Hay, K. (2025) ‘True’ Collaboration? Navigating Collective Leadership, Co-creation, and Professional Development of Staff in an Undergraduate Team-taught Honours Course.

Misic, G., Ramanan, S., Tsafos, Y. D. (2025) Assessment Innovation Through Programme Redesign.

Morrison, J., Cook, V., Cassie, N. (2025) What is the LTS Job Role? Pursuing Careers in Learning and Teaching.

Bankov, P. (2025) Maduro’s machines against paper coalitions: party digitalization and narratives on machine voting in Bulgaria. Swiss Political Science Review, 31, pp. 142-161. (doi: 10.1111/spsr.12648)

Tsafos, Y. D., Ramanan, S., Cheng, W., Misic, G., Selvaretnam, G. (2025) Impact of Generative AI on Student Engagement in Diverse Groups.

Cassie, N. (2025) Beyond the Wall. East Germany, 1949–1990. Europe-Asia Studies, 77, pp. 167-168. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2024.2437311)

Lowton, Z., Shukla, S. (2025) Vlog: Transnational Campus Conversations: Building Bridges Between Culture and Identity.

Alibegović, J., Misic, G. (2024) Mišić: Vidljiv odmak od tradicionalnog pristupa učenju, no put je dug. AlJazeera Balkans,

Morrison, J., Judge, A. (2024) Practices of ECI mentoring in a marketized higher education sector. Palgrave Macmillan

Claassen, C., Carman, C., Bankov, P. (2024) Is there a rural-urban political divide in Britain? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, (doi: 10.1080/17457289.2024.2393587)

Cassie, N., Loader, M. (2024) Using Active Learning to Evaluate Brezhnev's Legacy in the Classroom.

Bankov, P. (2024) Commissioned Book Review: Giorgos Venizelos, Populism in Power: Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump. Political Studies Review, 22, pp. NP19-NP20. (doi: 10.1177/14789299241227781)

Cawley, F., Cook, V. (2024) ‘Tea and Pedagogy’: Graduate Teaching Assistant-staff support network in learning and teaching practice. Postgraduate Pedagogies, 4, pp. 296-312.

Tsitsou, L. (2024) Deconstructing giftedness: a relational analysis of the make-up of talent in theatrical dance. Sociological Review, 72, pp. 789-807. (doi: 10.1177/00380261241258588)

Morrison, J. (2024) Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum? Embedding academic literacies in an undergraduate social sciences degree.

Bankov, P. (2023) Targets and resources. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 56, pp. 31-50. (doi: 10.1525/cpcs.2023.1991328)

Toomey, M., Shepherd, A. J.K. (2023) "Cultural trauma, populist grand narratives, and Brexit" Global Studies Quarterly, 3, (doi: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad055)

Gherghina, S., Bankov, P. (2023) Troublemakers and game changers: how political parties stopped democratic backsliding in Bulgaria. Democratization, (doi: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2250985)

Cook, V. (2023) “It Takes Two, Baby” – Accessing Male Infertility Clinics in Britain During the Late c. 1950 to 1974.

Misic, G., Rymarenko, M. (2023) Facilitating a SOTL Community of Practice for Teaching in a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom.

Tsitsou, L. (2023) Audience engagement with foreign to English language film, othering, and interpretative frameworks. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 19, pp. 245-265.

Wessels, B., Tsitsou, L. (2023) Editor's introduction: The dynamics of film audiences: how they form and develop relationships with film. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 19, pp. 201-206.

(2023) The Dynamics of Film Audiences: How They Form and Develop Relationships with Film. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 19,

Toomey, M. (2023) Rebuilding European democracy: resistance and renewal in an illiberal age. Irish Political Studies, 38, pp. 156-158. (doi: 10.1080/07907184.2022.2057764)

Tsakatika, M., Bankov, P. (2023) Europe: North and South. Edward Elgar

Morrison, J., Gibbs, E. (2022) Women's Political Leadership in Scotland: Successes and Failures.

Misic, G. (2022) Facilitating a SOTL Community of Practice for Teaching in a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom.

Hajdinjak, S., Misic, G., Kolarić, T. (2022) Political (dis) trust in Central Europe: mechanisms and regional variation. Brill

Alexander, K., Morrison, J. (2022) Towards Gender Justice in Scotland. Scottish Left Review, 129, pp. 7-8.

Alexander, K., Morrison, J. (2022) Towards gender justice: enhancing participation, reimagining economics and ending gender-based violence. Pluto Press

Sedgwick, C., Tsitsou, L. (2022) Doing online collaborative auto-ethnography during the pandemic to research academic precarity. SAGE

Gherghina, S., Saikkonen, I., Bankov, P. (2022) Dissatisfied, uninformed or both? Democratic satisfaction, political knowledge and the acceptance of clientelism in a new democracy. Democratization, 29, pp. 211-231. (doi: 10.1080/13510347.2021.1947250)

Misic, G. (2022) Assessment flexibility and student-led case-teaching: enhancing learning in an international classroom. Delft University of Technology

(2022) The Formation of Film Audiences: Conference Proceedings.

Tsitsou, L. (2021) The impact of COVID-19 on freelance contemporary dance work: Precarity and the vulnerabilities of the dancing body. Routledge

Bankov, P., Gherghina, S., Silagadze, N. (2021) Walking the walk or just talking the talk? VMRO‐BND’s efforts to become a mass party. Politics and Governance, 9, pp. 307-316. (doi: 10.17645/pag.v9i4.4562)

Morrison, J., Gibbs, E. (2021) Feminist institutionalism and women’s political leadership in devolution era Scotland. British Politics, (doi: 10.1057/s41293-021-00197-1)

Morrison, J. (2021) Invoking intersectionality: discursive mobilisations in feminism of the radical left. Social Movement Studies, 20, pp. 635-651. (doi: 10.1080/14742837.2020.1858779)

Misic, G., Rymarenko, M., Dorner, H. (2021) Becoming a teacher in higher education: creating an academic development program to catalyse doctoral students' professionalization. Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 11, pp. 246-253. (doi: 10.1556/063.2021.00068)

Dorner, H., Misic, G., Rymarenko, M. (2021) Online mentoring for academic practice: strategies, implications, and innovations. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1483, pp. 98-111. (doi: 10.1111/nyas.14301)

Tsitsou, L., Sedgwick, C. (2021) Between and Betwixt: Experiences of Academic Precarity and Resistance During COVID-19 Pandemic.

Bankov, P., Gherghina, S. (2020) Post-accession congruence in Bulgaria and Romania: Measuring mass-elite congruence of opinions on European integration through mixed methods. European Political Science, 19, pp. 562-572. (doi: 10.1057/s41304-020-00271-0)

Bankov, P. (2020) Commissioned Book Review: Giorgos Katsambekis and Alexandros Kioupkiolis, The Populist Radical Left in Europe. Political Studies Review, 18, pp. NP19-NP20. (doi: 10.1177/1478929919891331)

Toomey, M., Zhou, X., Yan, X. (2020) Examining the effectiveness of using role-play simulations with chinese students in China. International Studies Perspectives, 21, pp. 363-378. (doi: 10.1093/isp/ekz014)

Bankov, P. (2020) Czech stalemate? The role of party organization for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia since 2010. European Review, 28, pp. 826-841. (doi: 10.1017/s1062798720000265)

Gherghina, S., Bankov, P. (2020) Who follows the referendum campaign? The effect of political interest and media use in Bulgaria. Problems of Post-Communism, (doi: 10.1080/10758216.2020.1760722)

Bankov, P. (2020) The fireman’s ball in Bulgaria? A comparison between Sergey Stanishev and Boyko Borisov. Palgrave Macmillan

Alexander, K., Eschle, C., Morrison, J., Tulbure, M. (2019) Feminism and solidarity on the left: rethinking the unhappy marriage metaphor. Political Studies, 67, pp. 972-991. (doi: 10.1177/0032321718817479)

Misic, G., Rymarenko, M. (2019) Supporting Doctoral Candidates as Early Career Teachers: Addressing Teaching Challenges Through Design.

Cook, V. (2019) “How You Should Feel and What You Can Change”: An Analysis of Family Planning Advice for Couples Facing Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth in Britain During the 1960s.

Morrison, J. (2019) Feminist Politics and the Architecture of Devolution.

Misic, G. (2019) The regulation of post-communist party politics. East European Politics, 35, pp. 111-113. (doi: 10.1080/21599165.2019.1570141)

Cook, V. (2018) Analysing Silences: Accessing Men’s Emotions Towards Childlessness During the 1960s and 1970s.

Cassie, N. (2018) 'There were no women in Vietnam': Remembering the Combat Nurses Who Served During the Vietnam War.

Toomey, M. (2018) History, nationalism, and democracy: myth and narrative in Viktor Orbán’s ‘Illiberal Hungary’ New Perspectives, 26, pp. 87-108. (doi: 10.1177/2336825x1802600110)

Bankov, P. (2017) As eleições parlamentares búlgaras de 2017: tudo como dantes. Relações Internacionais, 56, pp. 13-37. (doi: 10.23906/ri2017.56a02)

Jamieson, D., Morrison, J. (2017) Catalonia Interview with Jenny Morrison.

Cassie, N. (2017) Book Review: Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in Warzones by Carol Acton and Jane Potter. War in History, 24, pp. 396-398. (doi: 10.1177/0968344517707285e)

Tsitsou, L. (2017) Ethics as social justice research: co-review essay. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20, pp. 311-315. (doi: 10.1080/13645579.2017.1291132)