Professor Alison Harcourt

Professor Harcourt specialises in policy change in digital markets and interested in solutions to regulatory problems based around the citizen/consumer and/or civil society voice. Alison has written on the regulation of traditional media and digital markets and internet governance at EU and international levels contributing to the literature on agenda setting, regulatory competition, soft governance, Europeanisation and policy convergence. Her recent research derives from her ESRC projects International Professional Fora: a study in civil society participation in internet governance and ESRC Senior Fellowship on the UK in a Changing Europe programme project on the effect of Brexit on digital market regulation.

 Alison was conferred as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2018. She was seconded to the Venice International University in 2021 on Exeter's global partnership programme and was Visiting Professor at the Department of Media and Communications at LSE in 2023-4. Alison's most recent book in 2023 is Brexit and the Digital Single Market with Oxford University Press.

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/alieliale

Biography:

Originally from Chicago, Alison Harcourt gained a BA (Magna Cum Laude) in Politics and International Relations from Northern Illinois University, before completing an MA in International Political Economy at the University of Warwick (Department of Politics) and a PhD at the University of Manchester (Department of Government). At Exeter, Alison acted as Director of the Centre for European Governance between 2018 and 2021 and was Director of the Information Society Network and the Centre for European Studies prior to this time. She has been consultant to and participated in working groups of the Council of Europe, European Commission, and national governments. Alison was a member of REF panel 27 in 2014 and was conferred as Fellow of the Academic of Social Sciences in 2018. She was seconded to the Venice International University on Exeter's global partnership programme in 2021 and is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communications in 2023-2024. Prior to Exeter, Alison held research posts at the University of Oxford, the University of Manchester and University of Warwick. She twice received Jean Monnet Fellowships at the European University Institute and has been Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, University of Bordeaux and LSE CARR.

languages: English (native), German (fluent), Italian (fluent), French (good), Russian (reading)

Other information:

The Centre for European Studies (CES) engages in the study of Europe and the European Union. The aim of CES is to promote and coordinate international excellence in research across the University. CES staff are integrated into wider national and international research networks. The Centre runs regular workshops and seminars, hosts visiting scholars and has close ties with the Centre for European Legal Studies based in the School of Law.

Research supervision:

European politics, European public policy and politics, communications/media policy at international, European and national levels, internet governance, self-regulation, soft governance.