Dr Mikko Kuisma

BSocSc (Hons), PhD (Birmingham), PCTHE

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Profile

Mikko is Senior Lecturer in International Relations. He joined Oxford Brookes in September 2006 as Lecturer in International Relations. He received both his BSocSc (Hons) and his PhD in Political Science from the University of Birmingham where he also held an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. After leaving Birmingham he worked as Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and as Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He lectures on international relations, European politics, citizenship, and globalisation and global governance.

Qualifications

2006-2007 Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (PCTHE), Oxford Brookes University

2000-2004 PhD in Political Science (ESRC-funded), University of Birmingham

1997-2000 BSocSc (Honours) in Political Science, University of Birmingham

Employment

2006- Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in International Relations, Oxford Brookes University

2005-2006 Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

2005 Lecturer in European Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

2004 ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

1997-2000 BSocSc (Honours) in Political Science, University of Birmingham

As a visiting scholar

April-May 2009 Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

September 2002 ARENA, University of Oslo, Norway

May-September 2002 Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere, Finland

Research

Mikko has broad research interests in the comparative political economy of welfare states, with a special interest in the constitution of citizenship in national models of capitalism. Other related research interests include new institutional theory, global governance and global civil society, the future of internationalism and ethical foreign policy, and Nordic politics.

Selected Publications

Edited Volumes

Kuisma, Mikko (ed.) (2007) The Nordic Model – Still a Variety of Contemporary Capitalism?, special section, New Political Economy, 12 (1).

Kuisma, Mikko (ed.) (2007) Nordic Internationalism, special issue, Cooperation and Conflict, 42 (1).

Refereed Journal Articles

Kuisma, Mikko (2008) 'Rights or Privileges? The Challenge of Globalization on the Values of Citizenship', Citizenship Studies, 12 (6), pp. 613-7.

Kuisma, Mikko (2007) ‘Nordic Models of Citizenship: Lessons from Social History for Theorising Policy Change in the 'Age of Globalisation'', New Political Economy, 12 (1), pp. 87-95.

Kuisma, Mikko (2007) ‘Social Democratic Internationalism and the Welfare State After the ‘Golden Age'', Cooperation and Conflict, 42 (1), pp. 9-26.

Other Publications

Kuisma, Mikko (2008) 'Reinventing the Nordic Model', article prepared for the joint Policy Network and Fabian Society seminar series on 'Tackling poverty and inequality in an age of globalisation: A comparison of public attitudes in Britain, the US and the Nordic states', London 9th July 2008.

External grants and awards

ESRC Research Grant (No. RES-000-22-3298). Project: Welfare state practices and the constitution of the citizen: Nordic models of capitalism in an age of globalisation, 1 February 2009-31 January 2010 (£66,566 fEc)

European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Jean Monnet Fellowship, 1 September 2005-30 June 2006 (€18,000)

ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (No. PTA-026-27-0292), 1 January-31 December 2004 (£27,640)

ESRC PhD Studentship, 1 October 2000-30 September 2003 (No. R42200034241)

Potential Research Students

Mikko is keen to supervise promising research students in comparative European politics and political economy, welfare state studies, theory and practice of citizenship and politics of identity, the politics of European social democracy, globalisation and global governance and Nordic politics.

Teaching

Undergraduate

U23201: Introduction to International Relations (with Dr Tina Managhan)

U23124: State and Society in Europe

U23127: Globalisation and Democracy

Postgraduate

P23105: Citizenship in Theory and Practice (with Dr Michael Lister)

P23110: Global Governance, Civil Society and Social Movements

Lorem

Contact

mkuisma@brookes.ac.uk

tel: +44 (0)1865 48 3995
fax: +44 (0)1865 483937

postal address