Covering a wide range of individual specialisations, the European politics grouping builds out from questions of identity and belonging into the relationship between national and European polities at the theoretical, institutional and policy levels, and into questions of European foreign and security policy and the role of the European Union as an international actor.

This group focuses on cross-cutting issues such as human rights and humanitarianism, nuclear non-proliferation, security and defence, and foreign policy analysis. Particularly innovative is the work on the politics of international intervention, looking at key drivers of foreign policy such as post-conflict reconstruction and stabilisation.

The principal areas of inquiry involve the role of affect and political emotions on voter preferences and issue support, political ideologies, theories, mythology and values, reputation management, political scandals, accountability and blame attributions. Research in this group focuses on the determinants of political decision making and the dynamics of public opinion.

This group is conducting research on concepts of active citizenship, gender perspectives on citizenship, education and learning policy, and political theory. We are currently involved in research on the theory and practice of research

CRONEM is a multidisciplinary research centre in the field of nationalism, ethnicity and multiculturalism. It brings together those at the University of Surrey and Roehampton University who are engaged in issues which lie at the nexus between nation, ethnicity, multiculturalism, citizenship and migration. Reflection on these issues through arts and humanities disciplines provides a distinctive focus for the Centre. 

CRONEM focuses on crucial developments within contemporary society by drawing on the expertise of those working in internationally renowned academic units across the areas of anthropology, dance, economics, education, European studies, policy studies, politics, psychology and sociology. It also benefits from the expertise of an Advisory Board composed of renowned figures from academia, government, media and user groups.

The Crime and Security initiative seeks to provide a network to bring together colleagues from within the Faculty and across the University who have an interest in research in this area. In this way exploitation of the considerable strengths derived from a history of existing scholarly activity is achieved. This will cover a varied range of disciplines for the development of new research collaborations which chime with contemporary evidencebased policy issues and contribute to emergent developments within crime and security. Members of the group are part of the multi-institutional Sexual Offences Research Initiative and the Groupe Européen de Recherche sur les Normativités.