Sarah Whitmore

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Dr Sarah Whitmore is an Associate Professor in Politics at Oxford Brookes University. She has been researching Ukrainian domestic politics for 30 years. Her focus is the evolution of formal institutions and their significance in structuring and reproducing power, and she has published widely on parliamentary politics, including a monograph, State-Building in Ukraine: The Verkhovna Rada (Routledge 2004). A second focus is Ukrainian state functioning during war, including democratic civilian control of the military. She has given briefings to the FCDO and US Department of State on Ukrainian politics, as well as numerous media interviews.

Experience

  • 2003–present
    Associate professor of politics, Oxford Brookes University
  • 2003–2018
    Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
  • 2002–2003
    ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham

Education

  • 2002 
    University of Birmingham, PhD Russian and East European Studies

Publications

  • 2026
    Repairing an aircraft mid-flight’: establishing democratic civilian control in Ukraine during war, Post-Soviet Affairs

Grants and Contracts

  • 2019
    What sort of military does Ukraine want and need?
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    British Academy with the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Grant no. SRG19\190038).

Contact Sarah for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision