Dr Charlotte Galpin

Dr Charlotte Galpin

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Associate Professor in German and European Politics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6928
Email
c.a.galpin@bham.ac.uk
Address
POLSIS - School of Government
Muirhead Tower
黑料吃瓜网
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Charlotte Galpin is Associate Professor in German and European Politics. Her research lies at the intersection of political science, sociology and media and communication studies, with a particular interest in the European public sphere, European and national identities, and democracy and citizenship. More recently, she is analysing masculinities and gendered patterns of inclusion/exclusion in national and European public debates, including online and media abuse of women and LGBTQ+ people. She has a particular area focus on the UK and Germany. 

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Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
  • PGCHE Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (Birmingham)
  • PhD Political Science and International Studies (Birmingham)
  • MA European Integration (Birmingham)
  • BA (Hons) French and German Studies (Warwick)

Biography

Charlotte Galpin joined the department in May 2017 and became Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in August 2021. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen and a teaching fellow at the University of Bath. She completed her PhD at the Institute for German Studies, POLSIS, in 2014.

 In autumn term 2019/20 she held the Alfred Grosser Visiting Professorship in Civil Society Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She has also been a visiting researcher at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University Berlin, and the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland.

 Dr Galpin has presented her research internationally, and has provided analysis of German politics for a number of news outlets, including Associated Press, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio West Midlands, Deutsche Welle, Business Insider UK, the i newspaper, and the Huffington Post. She has also given evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee and House of Lords Committee on Communication and Digital.

 She speaks German (advanced), French (advanced), Polish (intermediate), and Danish (beginner).

Teaching

Dr Galpin is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE). She also holds a SEDA Learning, Teaching and Assessing Award (2020).

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Galpin is interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

  • National and European Identity
  • European Public Sphere
  • Euroscepticism
  • The role of Germany and/or Britain in Europe
  • Brexit
  • Media representation including social media
  • Gender, feminist and queer approaches to the above

Research

Research interests

Dr Galpin’s research focuses on a number of areas:

  •  The European public sphere, particularly media representation and the impact of social media
  • European and national identities and their relationship to EU citizenship, legitimacy and transnational democracy
  • Masculinities and gendered patterns of inclusion/exclusion in the public sphere
  • Online and media abuse of women, LGBTQ+ and racialised people and the impact on democracy and citizenship
  • Intersectional feminist theory and critical feminist methodologies
  • She has a particular area focus on Germany and the UK.

 Funded projects

Dr Galpin has worked on a number of funded research projects:

 She is currently working on her second monograph, provisionally entitled ‘‘Gendering Europe: British national identity from EEC accession to EU secession”. This project was supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship between September 2022 and September 2023.

She was part of the Jean Monnet Network  (2019-22) coordinated by the University of Iceland, for which she leads a work package focusing on the impact of disinformation and ‘post-truth’ on the European public sphere. She is particularly interested in the role of gender in dynamics of post-truth.

She was Co-Investigator on the major research project ‘, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (2021-24). The PI by Professor Sara Jones (Modern Languages), and the second CI is Dr Jenny Wüstenberg (Nottingham Trent). The project explores the connection between collective memory and political identity in the process of migration, focusing specifically on two countries with experience of state socialist rule, Germany and Poland. The project will also have a strong impact dimension, working with policy-makers, immigrant communities, arts communities, and professional and 黑料吃瓜网 associations.

She was a Co-Investigator on ‘Futures of German Diasporas’ (2022-23), an interdisciplinary visiting scholar programme funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

She was the Principle Investigator on the project ‘At the digital margins? Researching and communicating marginalisation in online political engagement’ (Spring 2022), funded by Research England’s QR Enhancing Research and Knowledge Exchange Funding Programme.

She was Co-Investigator on the two-year project “Shifting Constellations: Germany and Global (Dis)Order” (January 2019 - December 2020, extended to 2021), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Other activities

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Dr Galpin is Elected Treasurer and Trustee of UACES – the University Association for Contemporary European Studies, September 2025-28.

The Post-Truth Politics research network ran the Post-Truth Politics Podcast. Dr Galpin hosted two episodes, the first of which focuses on intersectional approaches to post-truth in conversation with Dr Muireann O’Dwyer.

Publications

Monographs

  • Galpin, C. (2017), The Euro Crisis and European Identities: Political and Media Discourse in Germany, Ireland and Poland (New Perspectives in German Political Studies), Palgrave Macmillan

Edited Books

  • (co-edited with Conrad, M., Hálfdánarson, G., Michailidou, A., & Pyrhönen, N.), Europe in the Age of Post-Truth Politics - Populism, Disinformation and the Public Sphere (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology), Palgrave Macmillan (2022)

Journal articles

  • Galpin, C. & Rohe, M. (2025). ‘, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Online First) (Open Access)
  • Vernon, P. & Galpin, C. (2024). ‘, British Journal of Politics and International Relations (OnlineFirst) (OpenAccess)
  • Galpin, C., Gwenffrewi, G. & Stokoe, A. (2023). ‘’. European Journal of Women’s Studies, Issue 4, Open Forum (OpenAccess)
  • Galpin, C. & Vernon, P. (2023). , British Journal of Politics and International Relations (Open Access)
  • Galpin (2023). , International Feminist Journal of Politics (Open Access)
  • Galpin, C. (2022), , Politics and Governance, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2022) (OpenAccess)
  • Galpin, C. (2022), ‘’, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 301-318 (Open Access)
  • Brändle, V. K., Galpin, C. & Trenz, H.J. (2022), , Social Movement Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1-2, 234-253 (Open Access)
  • Galpin, C. (2020), ‘, German Politics and Society, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 7-24
  • Galpin, C. & Trenz, H.-J. (2019) The Political Quarterly, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 664-671.
  • Galpin, C. & Trenz, H.J. (2019) ‘, Journalism Practice, Vol. 13, No. 7
  • Galpin, C. & Trenz, H.J. (2019), ‘. European Politics and Society, Vol. 20 (3), pp. 260-276
  • Brändle, V. K., Galpin, C. & Trenz, H.J. (2018), ‘, Citizenship Studies, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 810-828
  • Galpin, C. & Trenz, H.J. (2018)‚ ‘ (The Spiral of Euroscepticism: EU News and Media Negativity)‘, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (Austrian Journal of Sociology), Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 147-172
  • Bijsmans, P., Galpin, C. & Leruth, B. (2018). Comparative European Politics, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 825-842
  • Adler-Nissen, R., Galpin, C. & Rosamond, B. (2017). ‘, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 19, No. 3
  • Galpin, C. (2017), ‘Chronology: The European Union in 2016’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Annual Review
  • Galpin, C. (2016), ‘Chronology: The European Union in 2015’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54, Annual Review, pp. 218-224
  • Galpin, C. (2015), ‘, German Politics and Society, Vol. 33, No. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
  • Galpin, C. (2015), ‘Chronology: The European Union in 2014’, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 53, Annual Review, pp. 230-236

Book Chapters

  • Galpin, C. (2025). ‘Britain and the European Union’ in Jones, Bill, Norton, Philip and Hertner, Isabelle (eds), Politics UK, 11th edition, Routledge
  • Galpin, C. (2022) ‘Brexit and Social Movements’ in della Porta, McAdam & Snow (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, 2nd edition
  • Galpin, C. & Eckert, C. (2022), ‘Theresa May’s Leadership in Brexit Negotiations: Self-Representation and Media Evaluations’ In Müller, Henriette & Tömmel, Ingeborg (eds), Women and Leadership in the European Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 213-230
  • Galpin, C. (2021), ‘Britain and the European Union’ in Jones, Bill, Norton, Philip and Hertner, Isabelle (eds), Politics UK,10th edition, Routledge
  • Galpin, C. & Trenz, H. J.  (2018), ‘The Spiral of Euroscepticism: Media Negativity, Framing and Opposition to the EU’ in: Caiani, Manuela and Guerra, Simona, Communicating Europe, Contesting Europe: European Democracy, the Media and New Eurosceptic and Critical Movements in Time of Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan: Houndsmills

Working Papers

  • Galpin, C. and Trenz, H.J. (2018), “Rethinking First- and Second-Order Elections Media Negativity and Polity Contestation during the 2014 European Parliament Elections in Germany and the UK”, ARENA Working Paper 3/2018, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, available online at 

Policy Briefs

  • Galpin, C. & Rohe, M., ‘ October 2024
  • Galpin, C. & Vernon, P., ‘, May 2023
  • Galpin, C., Jones, S., Kogut, N. & Rohe, M., ‘, March 2023

Blogs

  • Galpin C. & Braendle, V. K. (2024). ‘, Academy of Social Sciences, May 2024
  • Galpin, C. & Vernon, Patrick (2023). 'Laurence Fox, misogyny, and the chains of post-truth politics'. Birmingham Perspectives. 17 October 2023
  • Gwenffrewi, G. Stokoe, A.K. and Galpin C. (2022). ‘, College of Social Sciences Blog, 黑料吃瓜网. 31st March 2022.
  • Galpin, C. & Jones, S. (2022), ‘Ukraine’s Refugees & Racialised Borders’, Byline Times, 4 March 2022, available at: 
  • Galpin, C. & Gwenffrewi, G. (2022), ‘Media Transphobia and Democratic Inequality’, Social Sciences Birmingham, 11th February 2022, available at: 
  • Galpin, C. & Jones, S. (2021) ‘Germany enters a new era – but how much will change for inner German unity?’, Perspectives, 14th December 2021
  • Galpin, C. & Rohe, M. (2021), ‘, The Conversation, 23rd September 2021
  • Yakovlev, Mikhail (2021), ‘’, Media Diversity Institute, 6th August 2021
  • Galpin, Charlotte (2020), ‘’ Discover Society, 3rd June 2020
  • Bloom, Tendayi, Galpin, Charlotte & Weckesser, Annalise (2020), ‘Focus: Interrogating a ‘Woman’s Curse’ – What Endometriosis Tells Us About Politics and Society’, Discover Society, 3rd June 2020
  • Galpin, Charlotte (2018), ‘, Times Higher Education, November 8th 2018
  • Galpin, Charlotte (2018), ‘’, UK in a Changing Europe, 8th October 2018
  • Brändle, Verena K., Galpin, Charlotte, Trenz, Hans-Jörg (2018) ‘, Discover Society, 9th January 2018
  • Galpin, Charlotte (2017), ‘, Progressive Review, Institute for Public Policy Research, 7th November 2017
  •  Galpin, Charlotte (2017), ‘’ E-International Relations, 4th October 2017
  • Brändle, Verena K., Galpin, Charlotte, Trenz, Hans-Jörg (2017), ‘, The Sociological Review Blog, 28th July 2017
  • Galpin, Charlotte (2017), ‘’, The Conversation, 6th July 2017
  • Galpin, Charlotte (2016), ‘’, LSE BrexitVote, 13th October 2016
  • Galpin, Charlotte (2016),  LSE BrexitVote, 13th June 2016
  • Galpin, Charlotte (2011), ‘’ Birmingham Brief, 24th February 2011

Expertise

  • EU and Brexit debates
  • Euroscepticism, national identity
  • EU/European Court of Human Rights/Brexit in relation to gender and LGBTQ+ rights
  • News and social media in relation to representation, democracy, and political engagement
  • Post-truth/disinformation
  • Online and media abuse of women, LGBTQ+ and racialised people

Languages and other information

Charlotte Galpin also speaks German (advanced), French (advanced), Polish (intermediate), and Danish (beginner). 

Media experience

Charlotte Galpin has provided analysis of German politics for a number of news outlets, including BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio West Midlands, Associated Press, Deutsche Welle, Business Insider UK, the i newspaper and the Huffington Post. 

Expertise

  • Media representation and social media policy
  • Brexit and gender inequality

Dr Galpin has provided oral and written evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee and House of Lords Committee on Communications and Digital.