Beatrix Futák-Campbell is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University College based at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, where she also leads the World Politics programme. Her research interests include contemporary IR theory, in particular Practice Theory and Globalising IR, EU-Russia relations and migration as well as visual methods.

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Beatrix Futák-Campbell is an Assistant Professor of International Relations (IR) at Leiden University College based at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, where she leads the World Politics programme and is a co-convenor of the Leiden University Centre for International Relations (LUCIR). 

She completed her PhD in International Relations at the University of St. Andrews and her MA in EU Studies and German and MSc in Research in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She also trained as a conversation analyst at the University of York and Loughborough. Her research interests include contemporary IR theory, in particular Practice Theory and Globalising IR, EU-Russia relations and migration as well as methods on how to study IR. 

Previously she had worked at the University of Hamburg, University of Oxford, Vienna School of International Studies, University of Edinburgh and St Andrews, as well as at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the German Marshall Fund and the British Civil Service. 

Her first monograph was published by Manchester University Press titled Practising EU Foreign Policy: Russia and the Eastern Neighbours. She has also published in several journals including the Journal of Common Market Studies, International Politics, International Relations, Uluslararasi Iliskiler and European Security. Her edited volume Globalizing Regionalism and International Relations was published by Bristol University Press. 

During the 2017/18 academic year she was working as the principal investigator for Reading and Narrating the EU Migration/Refugee Crisis project at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW). Currently, she holds a Marie Curie fellowship at Aberystwyth University with the project Secure Borders. 

She is a member of the governing board of the World International Studies Committee (WISC) and of the European International Studies Association (EISA) where she is responsible for the annual Pan-European Conference on International Relations or PEC. She also serves as an associate editor of the International Studies Review (ISR).

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