Dr Charlotte Godziewski

Overview

Dr Charlotte Godziewski is Senior Lecturer in International Politics. She is currently MA Programme Director (MA International Politics, MA Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, MA International Politics and Human Rights, MA Global Political Economy) and teaches IP2055 Global Governance and IP3046 Global Health Policy. 

Charlotte is one of the coordinators of the UACES-funded research network on EU Health Governance. Her research explores the politics of health, specifically the politics of defining what constitutes health promotion. She has explored these puzzles with an empirical focus on EU institutions, analysing ‘health promotion’ as a site of tension between the social and economic logics of EU integration. She is particularly interested in how knowledge production, the politics of evidence, and the relationship between research and policy, shape the governance of health. More recently, she has been interested in researching how health security governance constructs a dichotomy between humans and nature/non-human beings.  

Her interest in the politics of health developed while working as a dietitian in Nepal between 2012 and 2014, where she contributed to setting up a nutrition department in Dhulikhel at the Kathmandu University Teaching Hospital. After coming back to Europe, she worked as a policy intern for Food and Agriculture at the European Public Health Alliance while completing her MSc Global Health degree at Maastricht University.

Qualifications

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advance HE (Higher Education Academy), July 2022
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, Aston University, United Kingdom, January 2021 - June 2022
• PhD, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, October 2016 - September 2020
• MSc Global Health, Maastricht University, Netherlands

Employment

• Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City, University of London, United Kingdom, August 2024 - present
• Lecturer in International Politics, City, University of London, United Kingdom, January 2022 - July 2024
• Lecturer in Sociology and Policy, Aston University, United Kingdom, April 2020 - December 2021

Fellowships

• Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, March 2025 - March 2026
• Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University, September - October 2023
• Planetary Health Equity Future Leaders Fellow, Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, September 2023

Memberships of committees

• Advisor, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Forum on the EU's Role in Global Health, June 2025 - present
• Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Expert Working Group on Alternative Configurations for the Institutional Design of the European Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), February - July 2022

Award

• University Association for Contemporary European Studies (2021). Best PhD Thesis Prize

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review), French (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review), German (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review) and Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review)

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