Euan is an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded PhD candidate in the Department of European and International Studies at King’s College London. He is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant at King's, teaching seminars in Geopolitics, Comparative Politics, American Foreign Policy, and The EU in the International System. Previously, he has also taught at the London School of Economics.

Euan obtained a first-class undergraduate degree in ‘MA International Relations’ from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a master's degree with distinction in ‘MSc Crisis and Security Management’ from Leiden University, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands. He also completed a fully-funded, second masters degree, with distinction, in ‘MA European Studies’ at King’s College London, serving as a precursor to his current doctoral research. He spent the third year of his Edinburgh studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, thanks to an Erasmus scholarship.

Vocationally, Euan has previously worked for The Oracle Partnership, a bespoke, agenda-setting strategic foresight consultancy based in London. Currently, he is an independently contracted research associate for the European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR) and is undertaking three Research Assistant positions at King's.

Office hours

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Doctoral research

A Classical Realist Framework for Trust in IR and international relations.

Research interests

• International relations (meta)theory
• International political thought
• Trust in IR and international relations
• Foreign policy analysis
• European external relations

Supervisors

Principal supervisor: Dr. Russell Foster (EIS)

Secondary supervisor: Dr. Benjamin Jones (EIS)

Third supervisor: Professor Richard Ned Lebow (War Studies)

Fourth supervisor: Professor Anand Menon (EIS)