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Aston University, Aston Street, Main Building
B4 7ET Birmingham
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas:
Multi-level politics and public policy, with particular focus on sub-national – regional and local – levels
Regionalist and Sub-state Nationalist Parties
Urban-Rural or City-Province divides
Political instability at the national, regional, local levels
Comparative Populism
Party Organisations
Social Democracy
Prospective research students who would like to work on the areas listed above are welcome to email me.
Email: d.vampa@aston.ac.uk
Phone: 0121 204 4156
Davide Vampa is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and Director of postgraduate taught programmes in the PIR department. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at De Montfort University in Leicester and Assistant Professor in Methods at The University of Nottingham. He completed his doctorate at the European University Institute in Florence. He acted as co-convenor of the PSA Italian Politics Specialist Group between 2018 and 2021.
Davide's research focuses on multi-level party politics and public policy. In particular, he is interested in the politics of welfare in countries such as Italy, Spain, and the UK, which have witnessed the gradual strengthening of regions and devolved administrations as arenas of social policy-making.
He has also conducted extensive research and published widely on recent transformations in democratic representation (at local, regional, and national levels), the rise of populism, and the crisis of social democracy. He is actively engaged in a wide range of activities involving knowledge exchange and public participation.
Davide has received grants to pursue research in various areas, including the impact of Brexit on devolution, austerity measures in Italian and Spanish regions, and the crisis of European social democracy. He serves as the principal investigator (alongside Dr Ed Turner) of a DAAD-funded project on the crisis and recovery of the German Social Democratic Party. Moreover, he is a member of the research team for another DAAD-funded project examining "Shifting territorial politics after the pandemic in Germany and beyond".
Undergraduate Modules
LP2104 Introduction to Political Economy
LP2105 International Political Economy
LP3122 The Populist Radical Right in Europe
Postgraduate Modules
LPM111 International Political Economy
LPM114 Concepts and Strategies for Social Data Analysis
LPM052 Postgraduate Dissertation
PhD, Politics, European University Institute
MA, European Studies, King's College London
MPhil, European Politics and Society, University of Oxford
BA, History
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Other contribution › Blog Post
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Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
27/02/19
1 Media contribution
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