My name is Dr Matt Broad.  A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, I’m an Assistant Professor (UD1) in History and International Studies in the Institute for History, Leiden University (the Netherlands) and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, University of Oxford.  I am also director of Leiden’s Centre for the History of European Integration (CHEI).

My teaching and research interests centre on European (including British) politics and political history from 1945 to the modern day.  More specifically I work on European integration (including enlargement and Euroscepticism), foreign policy and diplomacy, international organisations, and the Cold War.  This research has emerged in various formats, including five books and peer-reviewed academic articles in the likes of Contemporary European History, Diplomacy & Statecraft, International History Review and the Journal of Modern European History.  A full list of my publications is available here.

Before arriving in Leiden, I was Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Political Science and Contemporary History, University of Turku (Finland) and held academic positions at the universities of Reading and Gloucestershire.  I also enjoyed a short spell as a Jean Monnet Scholar at the European Studies Centre, University of Pittsburgh (US) and, more recently, as a Simone Veil Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (Germany) under the direction of Professor Kiran K. Patel.