About
Dr Lala Muradova (PhD, 2021) is a political scientist and Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. In 2023, she was a British Academy Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings, University of London.
Before joining Southampton, Dr Lala Muradova was a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (2022-2023), and a postdoctoral researcher (2021-2022) at Dublin City University (DCU) on a H2020 project focusing a comparative study of the potential of participatory institutions to address the challenges of liberal representative democracies. Lala has also held visiting positions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2018), University of Temple (2020) and University of Canberra (2021), among others.
She holds a PhD from the Centre for Political Science Research, KU Leuven (Belgium), with her PhD thesis awarded with the Best Political Science PhD in 2021 by the Belgian and Dutch Political Science Associations and the honorary mention of the Best Political Communication Dissertation of the APSA and ICA Political Communication Divisions 2021.
Lala Muradova is the Democratic Innovations Section Co-Chair for ECPR General Conference 2024.
As a social scientist, Lala is committed to interdisciplinary research and open science practices.
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