Tim Haughton

Tim Haughton is Reader (Senior Associate Professor) in European Politics at the University of Birmingham, where he served as Head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies (2016-18) and the Director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies (2012-14). Tim has held visiting appointments at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Institute for International Relations in Prague and Colorado College. He was an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (2011-12). Tim has good links with the policymaking community, having briefed inter alia five British Ambassadors to Slovakia before they took up their posts. His research interests encompass electoral and party politics, electoral campaigning, the role of the past in the politics of the present, the domestic politics of Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic and Brexit. He is the co-author with Kevin Deegan-Krause of The New Party Challenge: Changing Cycles of Party Birth and Death in Central Europe and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2020), the author of Constraints and Opportunities of Leadership in Post-communist Europe (Ashgate, 2005), the editor of Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Does EU Membership Matter? (Routledge, 2011) and served as the co-editor with Nathaniel Copsey of the Journal of Common Market Studies’ Annual Review of the European Union for nine years (2008-16). Tim was educated at the LSE and University College London.