Kyriaki is an Associate Professor in European Politics in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. Kyriaki leads on the EU Competencies Project. She previously held a Lectureship in European politics at the University of Nottingham, a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence and a Fellowship in European Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Her research interests include comparative politics, including elections and parties within Europe, European integration, Euroscepticism, Europeanisation and democratic deficit, quantitative and qualitative research methods, rational choice theory and political economy.

Fanni Toth is an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher in the School of Politics and International Relations, where she is affiliated with the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP). She researches the process of Europeanization, specifically focusing on the European Union's potential to transfer democratic norms and attitudes. She holds a BA in European Politics, a Masters in Diplomacy and a Masters in International Relations (Research Track), all three from the University of Nottingham.

Galina’s main research interests are public opinion and survey methodology. Currently she is a consulting associate at Gallup where she is primarily involved in international projects. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (University of Mannheim) where she worked primarily on Euroscepticism, party-citizen congruence and developing a survey-based measure of the scope of European integration. She also worked as a post-doctoral researcher on the MEPs in 2014-19 European Parliament project.