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Dr Françoise Boucek, BA (Toronto), MSc, PhD (London: LSE)

Françoise

Visiting Research Fellow

Email: f.boucek@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Françoise taught European and comparative politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary from 2003-18. She is associated with the School's Centre for European Research. She has also taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Witten Herdecke (Germany) and London Metropolitan University. She is a Research Associate at the LSE Public Policy Group where she worked as a Research Officer and managed the LSE Internships Programme in the early 2000s. She was for many years co-Chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary.

She gained her PhD in 2002 at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and MSc in European Politics in 1991 also in the LSE Government Department. Her doctoral thesis which won the 2002 LSE’s William Robson Memorial Prize, focused on the impact of factionalism on dominant political parties in Britain, Canada, Italy and Japan. Born and raised in France, she moved to London and then Canada in the 1970s. She worked in business and finance, notably as a researcher and financial analyst in Toronto where she gained her credentials from the Canadian Securities Institute. In the mid-1980s she took a career break to raise a family and return to higher education at the University of Toronto where she graduated with a BA in political  science in 1988.

Françoise regularly appears on national and international media to comment about French politics and elections including BBC News, Sky News, Euronews, Al-Jazeera; BBC 5Live Radio, LBC Radio, BBC Radio Wales; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Radio Canada (in French); TVP World; Australia's ABC; American NBC and ABC. Some of her interviews can be viewed here and here.  She has appeared in Japan's newspapers Asahi Shibun and Yomiuri Shimbun, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and Pravda and is a regular contributor to academic blogs EUROPP  and British Politics and Policy at LSE.

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