Christiano Bee

Dr. Cristiano Bee is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University (UK), where he holds the Jean Monnet Module “Challenges to European Integration: Multidisciplinary Perspectives.” Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of Kadir Has University in Istanbul, a Marie Curie Fellow at the European Institute of Istanbul Bilgi University and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Surrey. His research focuses on civil society studies, social movements, political and civic participation and engagement, with a particular interest on the role played by active citizens -and specifically young people- at the EU level but also comparatively in a number of countries (such as the UK, Italy, and Turkey). He is author of Active Citizenship in Europe: Practices and Demands in the EU, Italy, Turkey and the UK published by Palgrave in 2017.