Baroness Smith of Newnham
Fellowship Type
University Position
Professor of European Politics
Department
Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
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Degrees
Julie read PPE at Brasenose College, Oxford, and took both her MPhil and DPhil in Politics at St. Antony’s College, Oxford.
Research Interests
Julie’s research focuses primarily on the history and politics of the European Union, democracy in Europe and the UK's relations with the EU. Her current research projects focus on i) elections to the European Parliament in light of the forthcoming 50th anniversary of direct elections; ii) the changing nature of UK-EU relations a decade after the referendum; and iii) British-German relations.
Her recent publications include:
'Democratic Challenges in a Wider Europe', European Review of International Studies, December 2025 (published 2026)
'The Promise of EU Democracy: Reconnecting European Citizens?' Contributor and co-editor with Jan Wouters, Ben Crum and Kolja Raube (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026)
'The Palgrave Handbook on the 2024 European Parliament Elections' Co-editor and contributor with Juliet Lodge and Stergios Fotopoulos (Cham: SpringerVerlag, 2025)
'Anatomy of a Stalemate: Making Sense of the EU-UK Youth Mobility Controversy' (with Monika Brusenbauch Meislová and Ed Turner), Journal of Common Market Studies, 2025, doi.org/10.1111/jcms.70016, Policy Commentary, published online 29th July 2025.
'Differentiated Structures of Europe: German Perspectives on Turkey and the United Kingdom' (with Funda Tekin), German Politics, 2025, published online on 22nd May 2025; doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2025.2499203.
Her recent publications include:
'Democratic Challenges in a Wider Europe', European Review of International Studies, December 2025 (published 2026)
'The Promise of EU Democracy: Reconnecting European Citizens?' Contributor and co-editor with Jan Wouters, Ben Crum and Kolja Raube (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026)
'The Palgrave Handbook on the 2024 European Parliament Elections' Co-editor and contributor with Juliet Lodge and Stergios Fotopoulos (Cham: SpringerVerlag, 2025)
'Anatomy of a Stalemate: Making Sense of the EU-UK Youth Mobility Controversy' (with Monika Brusenbauch Meislová and Ed Turner), Journal of Common Market Studies, 2025, doi.org/10.1111/jcms.70016, Policy Commentary, published online 29th July 2025.
'Differentiated Structures of Europe: German Perspectives on Turkey and the United Kingdom' (with Funda Tekin), German Politics, 2025, published online on 22nd May 2025; doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2025.2499203.
Teaching Interests
Julie is co-convenor of the Evidence and Argument Paper for the History and Politics Tripos, lectures and supervises for Pol 13. a final year HSPS paper on British and European Politics and teaches a module on Europe in Crisis for the MSt in International Relations. In addition she supervises dissertations at undergraduate and post-graduate level on a wide range of European topics, including the UK’s relations with the EU, asylum and immigration policy, EU policy-making, including foreign and enlargement policy.