Dr Scott James joined King's College London in September 2008, and served as Deputy Head of the Department of Political Economy from 2015-16. From 2012 to 2016, he was Principal Investigator on the ESRC-funded 'Voices in the City' project, and since 2016 has been part of the UK research team for the nine-country Horizon 2020 'EMU Choices' project. In 2017 Dr James held a visiting position at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Dr James has published 14 articles in leading international journals, a monograph with Manchester University Press, and several book chapters with Palgrave Macmillan.
Lucia Quaglia is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna (IT). She was professor of Political Science at the University of York (2012-2017) (UK). She was awarded research fellowships by the Hanse-Wissenschafts Kolleg (DE), the University of Bremen (DE), the Fonds National de la Recherche (Luxembourg), the Max Planck Institute in Cologne (DE), the Scuola Normale Superiore (IT), and the European University Institute (IT). She has published 7 books, 4 of which with Oxford University Press. She has guest co-edited 4 special issues of highly ranked academic journals.