Beatrix Futák-Campbell is an Assistant Professor of International Relations (IR) at Leiden University College, based at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, where she leads the World Politics programme. She joined Leiden after holding a joint appointment at the University of Hamburg and University of Oxford, and positions at Vienna School of International Studies, University of Edinburgh, and University of St Andrews. She also has work experience at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, the German Marshall Fund in Berlin, and the British Civil Service. 

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Beatrix Futák-Campbell is an Assistant Professor of International Relations (IR) at Leiden University College, based at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, where she leads the World Politics programme. She joined Leiden after holding a joint appointment at the University of Hamburg and University of Oxford, and positions at Vienna School of International Studies, University of Edinburgh, and University of St Andrews. She also has work experience at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, the German Marshall Fund in Berlin, and the British Civil Service.  

Beatrix’s wider research is anchored in critical approaches in IR theory and methodology. She pays particular attention to the connection between non-Western and Western understandings of the international and its impact of this connection on regionalism, migration, border security, and on borderscapes.  

Her first monograph was published by Manchester University Press, titled Practising EU Foreign Policy: Russia and the Eastern Neighbours. She has also published in several journals, including the Journal of Common Market Studies, International Politics, International Relations, Uluslararasi Iliskiler, European Security and others. Her edited volume Globalizing Regionalism and International Relations was published by Bristol University Press. She is currently finishing a manuscript on Transit Communities and Impact of Migration (CEU Press).  

Beatrix served as co-convenor (2017-2022) of the Leiden University Centre for International Relations (LUCIR) programme. She was co-programme chair for EISA-PEC in 2020-2021, set up the EISA standing section Globalizing IR and served as its co-section chair between 2020-2023. She is currently serving as a member of the governing board of the World International Studies Committee (WISC), of the European International Studies Association (EISA), where she has been responsible for the annual Pan-European Conference on International Relations (PEC), and recently took over the EISA Awards portfolio. She also helped to establish the  Global IR Section at ISA and serves on its advisory board as well as on the TV Paul Book Prize committee. Beatrix serves as a co-editor of the International Studies Review (ISR). 

During the 2017/18 academic year, Beatrix was the principal investigator for Reading and Narrating the EU Migration/Refugee Crisis project at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW). Between 2020-2023 she was based at Aberystwyth University on a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship with the project Secure Borders.  

She completed her PhD in International Relations at the University of St. Andrews and her MA in EU Studies and German and MSc in Research in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She also trained as a conversation analyst at the University of York and Loughborough. 

Grants and Fellowships

• Maria Curie Individual Fellowship 2020-2023 Secure Borders based at Abyswreath University, UK  

• Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS- KNAW) Theme Group Fellowship as PI, 2017-2018 ‘Reading/Narrating the EU migration/refugee crises’ with Prof. Karin Fierke (St Andrews) and Dr Roxane Farmanfarmaian (Cambridge) 

• Knowledge Exchange Grant, University of Edinburgh, Symposium on Continuing Professional Development, 2010 

• GRADskills Innovation Grant, University of St Andrews (Project Leader), 2009 

• University of York Department of Sociology Bursary, 2008, 2009 

• Professional and Personal Development (PPD) Fund, University of St Andrews, 2008 

• Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES) Fellowship, 2008 

• Russell Trust Award, University of St Andrews, 2007 

• Economy and Social Research Council (ESRC) Scholarship, University of St Andrew, 2006–2010 

• Lady Monica Cockfield Scholarship, Sussex European Institute (declined), 2006 

• The University of Edinburgh, UK/EU Master’s Scholarship, 2005–2006 

• The UK ERASMUS Prize (finalist), 2004 

• Branson Bequest Scholarship, University of Edinburgh, 2004 

• ERASMUS Scholarship, Humboldt and Freie Universität, Berlin, 2003–2004 

• DAAD Scholarship, Freie Universität, Berlin, 2003 

• DAAD Scholarship, University of Dresden, Dresden, 2002 

Courses

• Regional Trends: Russia in World Politics  
• Regional Trends: EU in World Politics  
• Introduction to Global and Transnational Politics  

Ancillary activities

Media interviews 

• ORF (Austria) – interview in 2015 on impact of Austrian troops in the Golan highest   

• Ukrainian press - interview regarding the the impact of the far right in EU Parliamentary elections.  

Panels & public talks 

• Panelist at West Gallery with Katerina Sidorova   

04.09.2022 at OA Festival ‘Beyond the Bottleneck - 10 years after’ A panel discussion aimed to mediate between the borders of artistic, social and political understandings of protest and its consequences. With: Frits Dijcks (artist and editor Jegens & Tevens), Beatrix Futák-Campbell Campell (assistant professor at Leiden University) and artist Katerina Sidorova (artist and scholar), moderated by Yannik Güldner (curator). 

• Panelist with Masha Ru on Patriotism - Here we teach to win project: https://masharu.nl/Here-we-teach-to-win 

Professional associations & editorial work 

• Governing board of the World International Studies Committee (WISC), European International Studies Association (EISA)  

• Advisory board member of the Global IR Section 

• Co-editor of the International Studies Review (ISR). 

Publications