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Professor Stephen Whitefield
Head, Department of Politics and International Relations

Professor Stephen Whitefield is Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, Professor of Politics, University Lecturer in Politics and Rhodes Pelczynski Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Pembroke College.
He had spent the last 15 years studying post-Communist politics and society in 13 post-Communist countries and is now investigating the character of post-Communist and West European political parties, via expert surveys of their stances towards European integration and social inequality.
He is coordinator of the Eurequal project which also involves a new research element, namely the analysis of focus group data from 10 post-Communist countries.