Rate My Professor Amelia Hadfield

Professor Amelia Hadfield is Chair in European and International Affairs in the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey, where she has served as Head of Department since joining in January 2019. She holds a PhD in International Relations and Political Science from the University of Kent (2007), an MA in International Political Economy with International Law from the University of Kent (2000), and a degree in History and Comparative Politics from Dalhousie University (1998). Previously, she directed the Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS), a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, at Canterbury Christ Church University from 2013 to 2018. Earlier in her career, she held positions in Brussels at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and the Institute for European Studies, where she directed the Euromaster degree programme and the Educational Development unit. As a long-standing Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign Affairs, she obtained Erasmus+ funding to establish the Centre for Britain and Europe as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in 2020. Her additional appointments include Dean International since January 2021, Associate Vice-President for External Engagement since October 2023, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Centre of Excellence on Ageing since April 2023, Co-Director of the Institute for Sustainability, and inaugural Director of CIFAL Surrey since December 2024, a knowledge exchange hub affiliated with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research focused on climate literacy, leadership, and sustainability.

Professor Hadfield's research specializations include EU foreign and security policy, post-Brexit EU-UK relations, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Common Security and Defence Policy, EU-US and EU-Canada relations, EU-Russia relations, EU Neighbourhood Policy, EU Development policy focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, Arctic and northern governance issues, foreign policy analysis, international and diplomatic history, International Relations theory, international political economy, public policy analysis, the Commonwealth, and EU education policy. Key publications feature the co-edited "Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases" (Oxford University Press, 2024), "More or Less Borrell? A Critical Analysis of Josep Borrell as the European Union's High Representative" (Journal of Common Market Studies, 2024), "Entente Cordiale Redux: the impact of Brexit on British and French foreign and security policy" (Contemporary British History, 2023), "The diplomacy of 'Global Britain': settling, safeguarding and seeking status" (International Politics, 2023), and "United Kingdom-European Union policing and law enforcement cooperation in the post-Brexit era" (Policing & Society, 2025). She is frequently invited as a guest speaker, external supervisor, research partner, consultant, and media pundit on EU foreign affairs and EU-UK relations.