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Academics across all of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's eleven faculties study Europe and collaborate with European partners to break boundaries and create fair solutions to real world problems - from Covid-19 to climate change.

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº is one of the world’s leading centres for the study of Europe and the EU. More than 250 academic staff are engaged in scholarship on Europe, from Political Science to Comparative Literature, Laws to Health Informatics, Philosophy to Architecture.

Our European Institute is ¹û¶³Ó°Ôºâ€™s hub for research, collaboration and engagement on Europe – recognised by the European Commission as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2016.
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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº also has longstanding research and teaching partnerships with many leading European institutes and organisations. These range from multimillion pound joint research centres and seed-funding for individual and regional research collaborations, to collaborative doctoral schemes and dual degrees; from staff and student exchange schemes to joint workshop series; from CPD provision to collaborative MOOCs.
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The university is consistently ranked as one of the top performing organisations worldwide under the EU Framework Programmes for research.
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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº has 2690 partners across Europe as part of the Horizon 2020 funding scheme

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Highlights: ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº research on Europe


Brexit litigation


Origins of Brexit litigation

The work of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Laws Professors Jeff King and Tom Hickman is regarded as providing the ‘origins of the litigation’ in the landmark Brexit Miller ruling delivered on 24 January 2017, when the core of their argument, first published on theÌý, was upheld by the Supreme Court.

In 2018,ÌýProfessor Piet Eeckhout, Dean ofÌý¹û¶³Ó°Ôº LawsÌýand Academic Director of theÌý¹û¶³Ó°Ôº European Institute, acted as academic consultant in the Wightman case on the unilateral revocation of Article 50, having written about the subject of revocability inÌý.

European colonialism


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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº academics in the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº School of European Languages, Culture and Society, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº History and elsewhere work extensively on the legacies of European colonialism, race and racism in Europe.

Examples include Prof Zoltán Biedermann’sÌýÌý(OUP, 2018), Dr Chloe Ireton’s work onÌýIntellectual History in the Early Iberian Atlantic, Dr Jeff Bowersox’ project onÌý, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº History’sÌýLegacies of British Slave-OwnershipÌýproject, andÌýProfessor Paul Gilroy’s work at the newly established Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation.

Migration, labour markets and health


, Professor of Economics and Director of theÌýÌýhas been awarded the Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker Prize for 2020, for his long-standing research in the field of migration and the labour market.

As Executive Director ofÌý, a collaborationÌýsupported by ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Grand Challenges between The Lancet, researchers and implementers that aims to address evidence gaps and drive policy change,ÌýÌýhas recently focused on Germany’s global health strategy and its omission of migrants.Ìý

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Inequalities


Many ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº researchers tackle the causes and implications of inequality, including in Europe. For example,ÌýDr Sonia Arbaci Sallazzaro, Associate Professor at The Bartlett School of Planning explores ethnic residential segregation and the role of the state, and the various European housing systems and welfare regimes an urban policies in producing inequality in Southern European cities.Ìý

Dr Rebecca O’Connell and Professor Julia Brannen’s (Thomas Coram Research Unit, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Education) new book is coming out with ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Press on 24 May 2021.

Prof. Sasha Roseneil has published a new book, with four European co-authors,Ìýexploring the strength and grip of couple-normativity across changing landscapes of law, policy and everyday life in four contrasting national contexts: the UK, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal:Ìý.

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Research with European Partners


Cities Partnership Programme


Professor Florian Mussgnug
Florian Mussgnug is Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies in ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's School of European Languages, Culture and Society. In this video he talks about ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's work with Italian partners as Academic Director for the Cities Partnerships Programme in Rome, a cross-¹û¶³Ó°Ôº initiative that supports, funds and promotes the work ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº academics carry out with partners in global cities.
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Max Planck ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Centre Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing


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The Max Planck ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research is dedicated to studying the causes of psychiatric disorders and the causes of individual differences in cognitive development, with an emphasis on adulthood and old age.ÌýThe Centre was founded in April 2014 and is the result of an existing collaboration between the German Max Planck SocietyÌýandÌý¹û¶³Ó°Ôº that began in 2011.Ìý

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Alliance4Tech


Alliance4Tech is a strategic alliance founded by ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº with Centrale Supélec, Politecnico di Milano and Technische Universität Berlin aiming to create a European Campus without borders for students and faculties of technology. Partners are working to enhance mobility and exchange options, multi-site/joint degree programmes and other opportunities for their students.

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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº-Paris Sciences et Lettres


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Via the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and the Cities Partnerships Programme, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº is working with Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) to support early- and mid-career researchers leading multi-year projects. Projects funded range from multidisciplinary studies on living in outer space to summer schools on the inner life of consciousness. Founded in 2010, Université PSL includes eleven of Paris’Ìýmost well-known grandes écoles and grands établissements as its component-schools.

>ÌýFour projects awarded funding from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº-PSL Partnership Funds (Global Engagement Office)

KU Leuven Partnership


¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and KU Leuven have a long track record of research co-operation, including 18 joint projects under Horizon 2020. Major areas of co-operation include:

  • Neurodegeneration, overseen by Professor Bart De Strooper, the 2018 Brain Prize winning Alzheimer's disease researcher and director of the UK Dementia Research Institute.
  • Fetal surgery,Ìýa ground-breaking collaboration bringing together researchers from across ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, KU Leuven and King's College London in women's health, biomedical engineering, neonatal medicine, robotics to develop the technology, tools and training necessary to .

Lex-Atlas: COVID-19


¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Laws recently teamed up with the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law, as well as King’s College London, toÌýjointly lead a projectÌýbringing together legal scholars across the world to understand and compare national legal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project, entitled Lex-Atlas: COVID-19 (LAC19), seeks to provide unprecedented analysis of legal responses to COVID-19 in more than 60 countries, representing a diversity of regions, income and inequality levels, legal systems and political regime-type.Ìý

TU Delft


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is a 2.5 year JPI Urban Europe-funded research project exploring the future of urban manufacturing in Europe with the focus on three cities: London, Rotterdam and Brussels. The project involves seven organisations, including the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources and theÌýÌýand seeks to create a new narrative for urban manufacturing which can then be translated into policy or used to inform a local economic vision in which manufacturing has a clear place.

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº-French Embassy collaborative workshops


¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and the French Embassy in London regularly collaborate on annual workshops with a Science and/or Technology focus. The series is one of two joint initiatives between ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Grand Challenges and the French Embassy’s Higher Education, Research & Innovation Department, the other being annual Conference-Débat lectures.Ìý

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More than 35,000 ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº alumni are from EU countries, meet these inspiring minds and hear why they choose ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº. 

European Programmes

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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº offers a range of excellent courses to prospective European students, alongside a vast array of student mobility opportunities. Discover the opportunities available. 

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