Tim Haughton

Biography

Tim Haughton joined the University of Birmingham in 2003 having previously taught at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), Sheffield University and Comenius University in Bratislava. Initially appointed as Lecturer in the Politics of Central and Eastern Europe, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006 and was promoted again to Reader (Associate Professor) in European Politics in 2012. He served as the Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies/Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies from 2012 to 2014. Tim became Head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS) in 2016. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Colorado College and was an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC. He has published widely in a number of journals including Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Comparative European Politics, East European Politics, East European Politics and Societies, Electoral Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Party Politics, Political Studies Review, Politics and Policy and West European Politics. He has also written several articles for the Washington Post. He is the author of Constraints and Opportunities of Leadership in Post-Communist Europe (2005) and the editor of Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Does EU Membership Matter? (2011). His research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation. Dr Haughton has good links with the policy making community, having briefed inter alia three successive British Ambassadors to Slovakia and given presentations at the State Department in Washington DC.

Research Interest

There are currently four strands to Dr Haughton's research: party politics in Central and Eastern Europe domestic Czech, Slovak and Slovene politics the role of the past in the politics of the present the role of campaigns in electoral outcomes