Dr Andrew Judge joins the School of Social and Political Sciences in August 2016 as University Teacher in International Relations.  Andy received his PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Strathclyde in 2012 and holds an MSc in Public Policy from the same institution.  Prior to coming to Glasgow, he worked as a Teaching Associate at the University of Strathclyde, as energy attaché to the UK Member of the European Court of Auditors, and as a Research Assistant at the European Policies Research Centre.  He has also previously taught at the Universities of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Stirling and the West of Scotland.

Andy’s research interests cut across Security Studies, European Union Politics and Policymaking, and Energy Politics.  His current research can be grouped into two broad areas. 

The first, concerns the construction of energy as a security issue.  In various projects, he has sought to examine the re-emergence of energy security as a policy concern in EU and national contexts through the application of different strands of securitisation theory.  Recently completed and current projects in this area have focused on the securitisation and riskification of gas supplies in the UK and Poland, the geopoliticisation of EU-Russian energy relations, the legitimation of EU legislation for the security of gas supplies, and developing a conceptual understanding of energy securitisation ‘beyond the Copenhagen School’.

The second area concerns EU policymaking, and in particular the role of interest groups in the policy process.  Andy is currently working on a project examining the responsiveness of the EU institutions to interest groups with Professor Robert Thomson.  This project connects the formative and decision-making stages of the legislative process through a quantitative analysis of an original dataset of interest group submissions to European Commission consultations and the well-established DEU II dataset on decision-making in the EU.

Andy has extensive teaching experience, having taught a wide selection of Political Science and International Relations modules at multiple Scottish Higher Education Institutions.  These include, in no particular order, classes on Security Studies, Strategic Studies, International Relations, Human Rights, European Union Politics, British Governance, and Qualitative Research Methods.

 

First published: 28 July 2016

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