I am Professor of European Politics in SPAIS. I have worked at the University of Bristol for over 30 years. I was initially appointed to the University of Bristol in 1991 as Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Community Studies. I became a Senior Lecturer in 2000, a Reader from 2006 and Professor of European Politics in 2008. During that time I have  held a number of visiting positions , including at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Grenoble, 1995;  the New York Consortium for European Studies (Columbia and NYU), 1998; the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, 1999-2000; the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Lille, 2002; the College of Europe, Bruges, 2003-04; Nanjing University, China, 2007; ULB, Brussels, 2011; and York University, Toronto, 2012. Most recently, I held the Pierre Keller Visiting Professorship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (Jan-June 2014). Between 2010 and 2017 I was co-editor of the leading interdisciplinary journal on the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS). From 2017-2021 I was Head of School in SPAIS. I am co-editor of the flagship Oxford University Press (OUP) textbook, European Union Politics (with N. Perez-Solorzano) which is currently in is 8th edition. Since 2022 I have been working on a British Academy project on post-Brexit UK subsidy policy.