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Professor Paul Copeland, BA (Manchester), MA RES (Manchester) PhD (Manchester), PGcap (QMUL)

Paul

Professor in Public Policy

Email: p.copeland@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7882 5840
Room Number: ArtsOne 2.22A
Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 and Thursdays 14:00-15:00 (in person or online). No booking required, call any time if on Teams.

Profile

Paul joined the School in September 2012 having previously been a Hallsworth Research Fellow of Political Economy at the University of Manchester (2009-2012). 

His research and teaching focuses on two intertwined strands: 1) The political economy of European integration, particularly with respect to the politics and policy making of the EU and its competence in employment, social policy, the Single Market and economic governance; 2) and the UK’s relationship with the EU, Brexit, and the role of the British media in constructing Euroscepticism. His recent monograph ‘Governance and the European Social Dimension’ was shortlisted for the 2021 UACES best book prize. His research has featured in leading journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Comparative European Politics, British Politics, European Law Journal, Public Administration. 

Between 2020-2023 he was Deputy Director (training and cohort development) of the ESRC-funded LISS DTP, and along with colleagues, successfully secured its second round of funding. He was also an elected as a committee member of the Academic Association for Contemporary European Studies (2015-2018). He was the founding director of Queen Mary’s Centre for European Research, which hosted the 2016 UACES Annual Conference and established EU studies within the Faculty. He is currently an elected board member of the James Madison Charitable Trust and in 2020 was a visiting fellow at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. In 2019 he was awarded one of QMUL’s Education Excellence Awards in recognition of his co-creative approach to teaching. 

He is regularly invited to provide expert opinion on the House of Lords, the European Parliament, the European Commission, and a wide range of media outlets. He has also provided consultancy work for Oxfam, the World Health Organization, and the European Social Network. He is often invited to provide both live and pre-recorded comment and opinion to broadcasting media outlets including: BBC; France 24; RTE; Public Radio International; Sveriges Television; Hrvatska Radiotelevizija. He has written blogs and articles for the Conversation, Policy Network, the Mile End Institute, and UK in a Changing Europe to name but a few.

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