Margherita de Candia

I am a Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Economy (DPE) on the education pathway, where I contribute to the DPE educational leadership team. I am also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and serve as an external examiner at the University of Bristol.

Before joining DPE in autumn 2025, I spent six years at King’s Foundations, where I taught global politics to ambitious international students preparing for university study in the UK. Prior to that, I was a Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading (2018-19), where I lectured on a range of political science subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

My research focuses on multilevel party politics in the European Union. My PhD in European Studies, awarded by the Department of European Studies at King’s College London in 2019, examined the links between national parties and their counterparts in the European Parliament.

Currently, I am particularly interested in how party actors at the fringes of the ideological spectrum use the European Parliament arena to pursue goals in the domestic political context. This is reflected in my recent publications on Brothers of Italy and the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament.