Dr Rebecca Baker (She/Her)

Rebecca is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and previously had an additional role within Project Enhance, working on the digitalisation of teaching and learning. Rebecca teaches political theory, contemporary politics, International Relations and Public Policy at undergraduate level, as well as supervising students in their undergraduate and Masters dissertations.

Her research interests focus on empirical and conceptual democratic theory and the interaction between these. This includes elections, representation, access to governance, participation and 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.

Biography:

After leaving the Southwest to study in London I soon returned to teach and conduct research closer to the sea.

A PGCE qualified lecturer, I previously worked as an Associate Lecturer in Politics at the University of Plymouth, teaching International Relations Theory 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.