Dr Rebecca Baker (She/Her)

Rebecca is a Lecturer in International Relations and Politics with a prior additional role within Project Enhance, working on the digitalisation of teaching and learning. Rebecca teaches International Relations and Public Policy as well as political theory and contemporary politics at undergraduate level, and supervisors students in their undergraduate and Masters dissertations. PhD supervision is subject to availablity and specialism. 
 
Her research interests primarily focus on conceptualisation of democracy and its consequences for empirical practice- both for emerging generations and the international system. This covers a breadth of areas including elections, representation and policy making, youth engagement, democracy promotion as foreign policy and the discourses of democracy. 
 
Methodologically, Rebecca is a mixed methods researcher, prioritizing the addition of contextualising qualitative-based narratives to quantitative data. Her research thus far, has combined focus groups for co-production of interventions, with the impact measured through mini lab experiments and pre-post surveys that centralise qualitative conceptual data to deepen understanding of reported political participation and associations with democracy.

Biography:
A PGCE qualified lecturer, I previously worked as an Associate Lecturer in Politics at the University of Plymouth, teaching Imagining World Order and Democracy and Democratisation. Before moving into academia, I was a Lecturer and Associate Examiner in English and International Relations History, receiving awards for Services to Examining and ‘Outstanding’ ratings for my teaching practice. As an academic, my research directly informs and supports my dedication to education.