Sotirios Zartaloudis

Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis is Associate Professor in Comparative European Politics at the Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), School of Government at Birmingham University.

He holds a PhD in European Studies and an MSc in European Politics and Governance from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Sociology from University of Crete, Greece.

He has an extensive teaching experience in comparative European politics and the European Union (history, institutions, policy-making and politics), British politics and international political economy (varieties of capitalism and welfare states) at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Besides his academic research, Dr Zartaloudis has been involved in policy making and impact by working as a research associate at the International think-tank Policy-Network. His work there informed UK’s Premier Gordon Brown on promoting social mobility in the UK.