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Professor Helena Farrand Carrapico

Professor

Department: Social Sciences

Helena Farrand Carrapico joined Northumbria University in April 2019, where she is Professor of International Relations and European Politics, as well as Jean Monnet Chair. She is also Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange for the Social Sciences Department.

She has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles, 5 books (1 co-authored and 4 edited volumes), 15 book chapters and 7 special issues in the field of European internal security in high- raking Social Sciences journals (such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, The Journal of European Integration, European Security, Geopolitics, and Crime, Law and Social Change). She is one of the four editors for the UACES/ Routeldge Series on Comptemporary European Studies, and she is a BISA elected Trustee (2022- 2024).

She holds a doctoral degree in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute (Florence), where she developed her thesis on European Union organised crime policies, and an MA from the College of Europe. Prior to moving to Northumbria University, Helena was a Senior Lecturer at Aston University, where she also co-directed the Aston Centre for Europe. Previous academic positions were also held at the University of Dundee, James Madison University, the University of Coimbra and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Helena was also a visiting fellow at the DG. Justice, Liberty and Security of the European Commission, and at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS). She was an elected member of UACES (2016-2019) and a co-convenor for the BISA European Security Working Group (2014-2020).

Helena Farrand Carrapico

Helena's research focuses on European security governance, in particular the governance of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, and comprises four strands:

1) The governance of specific policy fields within Justice and Home Affairs, namely organised crime and cybersecurity;

2) the governance of the external dimension of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice; 

3) the governance of Brexit in relation to internal security;

4) the modes of governance present in internal security, including for example privatisation and agencification.

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  • All in this together? Communities of Practice in UK-EU Cybersecurity relations post-Brexit and Differentiated Re-engagement, Farrand Carrapico, H., Christou, G. 18 Nov 2024, In: Journal of Common Market Studies
  • Complex harms of migration externalisation: EU policy ‘creep’ processes into domestic counterterrorism at the Turkey-Iran border, Augustova, K., Ilbiz, E., Farrand Carrapico, H. 1 Mar 2024, In: Journal of International Relations and Development
  • Cybersecurity Trends in the European Union: Regulatory Mercantilism and the Digitalisation of Geopolitics, Farrand Carrapico, H., Farrand, B. 25 Jul 2024, In: Journal of Common Market Studies
  • Frontex goes global: A two‐level experimentalist governance analysis of Frontex's international action and its role within the externalisation of EU borders, Zhong, Y., Farrand Carrapico, H. 1 Mar 2024, In: Contemporary European Politics
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind? UK–EU Member States Bilateralism as an Enabler of Europeanisation, Wolff, S., Carrapico, H., Piquet, A. 29 Sep 2024, In: Journal of Common Market Studies
  • The Development of Frontex: integration through supranationalism, Zhong, Y., Farrand Carrapico, H. 14 Mar 2024, In: European Politics and Society
  • Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders, Augustova, K., Carrapico, H., Obradović-Wochnik, J. 15 Mar 2023, In: Geopolitics
  • Push and Back: the Ripple Effect of EU Border Externalisation from Croatia to Iran, Augustova, K., Farrand Carrapico, H., Obradović-Wochnik, J. 1 Aug 2023, In: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
  • Digital/sovereignty and European security integration: an introduction, Bellanova, R., Carrapico, H., Duez, D. 2022, In: European Security
  • Digital Sovereignty and Taking Back Control: From Regulatory Capitalism to Regulatory Mercantilism in EU Cybersecurity, Farrand, B., Farrand Carrapico, H. 2022, In: European Security

Konstantinos Manakos Digital Sovereignty in the EU: Safeguarding the European Union's Digital Future Start Date: 01/10/2023

Courses I teach on:

- IR7011 and AT7038- European Security Governance and Conflict

-IR6010- War Games- learning negotiation and diplomacy through simulations

-SO6002- Dissertation Module

  • International Politics PhD June 30 2010
  • Politics MRes June 30 2006
  • European CommunityStudies MA (Hons) July 31 2003
  • Senior Fellow (SFHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2019


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