Dr Eunice Goes

Associate Professor of Communications

Eunice Goes holds a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science(2002), a M.A. in Politics from the University of Warwick (1997) and a B.A. in International Relations from Lusíada University (Lisbon, Portugal, 1994).

Dr Goes has taught politics and researched at different British and American universities based in London, namely the LSE, the Royal Holloway College of the University of London, UCL, Ithaca College, amongst others.

In parallel with her academic career, she has worked as a journalist. She started her journalistic career at “Diário Económico”, the Portuguese equivalent of the Financial Times in August of 1993 as a foreign news correspondent, and between 1996 and 2007 she was the London correspondent to the Portuguese reference newspapers “Diário de Notícias” (until 2001) and “Expresso” (from 2001 until 2007). During this time, Dr Goes covered major events such as the 1997, 2001 and 2005 general elections, the creation of the Scottish Parliament, the terrorist attacks of 7/7 of 2005, the Northern Irish Peace Process, race riots in England, art events, interviewed British and European politicians, writers and artists.

As an active member of the large foreign correspondent community based in London, Dr Goes was elected to the Committee of the Foreign Press Association between 2002 and 2003. Dr Goes has contributed with articles to “The Independent”, www.opendemocracy.com. She collaborates with the BBC and is a regular guest on the BBC News program “Dateline London”, and on the “World Today”, broadcasted by the BBC World Service.

Dr Goes research interests lie in the areas of British politics, European politics, democracy, the interplay between the media and political institutions, the role of ideas in policy-making and multicultural citizenship.

She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (www.ipri.pt)

Courses Taught

• COM 100 Introduction to Communications and Media
• JRN 205 Introduction to Writing for Media and Journalism
• COM 305 Feature Writing
• COM 350 Media Ethics
• PLT 301 British Politics: Inside Parliament
• PLT 362 Policy-Making in the Globalized World
• PLT 380 Democracy: In Theory and in Practice
• INR 611 International Relations and the Media

Publications

• “The End of British Tolerance? Changing Elite Attitudes Towards Muslim Veiled Women in Britain”, in Media, Culture and Identity and Europe, Savas Arslan, Defne Karaosmanoglu, Süheyla Kirca Schroeder (Editors), (Istanbul: Bahçesehir University Press, 2009).
• “It’s Good to Talk: Addressing Moral Conflict in Multicultural Societies”, in Tarun Pokyia, Managing a Multicultural World: Policy and Practice (New Delhi: ICFAI University Press, 2008).
• “Placing New Labour: A Review of Matt Beech’s The Political Philosophy of New Labour”, Labour History, Summer 2008.
• “Assessing New Labour’s Decade in Power”, Finisterra, 2008.
• “The Third Way and the Politics of Community” in Luke Martell et al. The Third Way and Beyond: Criticisms, Futures and Alternatives, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).
• “Entente Cordiale: The Engine of European Defence”, Relações Internacionais, May 2004 [Portugal].
• A Era Blair Em Exame (The Blair Era Under Examination), (Lisbon: Quimera, 2003) [Portugal].
• “UK-US: Special Relation or Alliance of Interests?”, Política Internacional, no. 26, Autumn/Winter 2002, p. 33-47 [Portugal].
• "De Bill Clinton à Al Gore: Les Nouveaux Démocrates au Pouvoir", La Revue Socialiste, November 2000, p. 48-60 [France].
• "Les Nouveaux Démocrates: Les Pères Fondateurs de La Troisième Voie", Témoin, June 2000, p. 93-106. [France].

Conference Papers

• “Deliberation and the Diverse Polity: Talk as a Tool for Social Cohesion”, presented at Deliberative and Participatory Democracy in the UK and Ireland PSA Specialist Group, Glasgow Caledonian University 23-25 June 2010.
• “Deliberative Democracy and Multicultural Societies: A Tool to Reduce Inter-Cultural Tensions”, presented at Joint Conference CRONEM/Runnymede Trust, Living Together: Civic, Political and Cultural Engagement Among Migrants, Minorities and National Populations – Multidisciplinary Perspectives, University of Surrey 29-30 June 2010.
• The End of British Tolerance? Changing Elite Attitudes Towards Muslim Veiled Women in Britain”, presented at Beyond Boundaries: Media, Culture and Identity in Europe”, Baçesehir University-University of Potsdam, Istanbul, 1-3 of October 2009.
• “Managing Diversity: Lessons From the UK and France”, delivered at the Association of Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference, Aliens And Nations – Citizenship, Sovereignty And Global Politics, Keele University, 19-21 May 2007. “Integrating Minorities in Europe: Lessons from France and the UK”, PSA Annual Conference, Bath University, 9-11th of April 2007.
• “It’s Good to Talk: Addressing Moral Conflict in Multicultural Societies”, Workshop “Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict”, University of Durham, 21-23 March 2007.
• “New Labour in Government” – Guest Lecturer, Department of Social and Political Studies, University of Cambridge, 18.01.07, 01.02.07. Series of four lectures on different policy areas of the New Labour Government.
• Guest Speaker at the LSE Government Department Cumberland Lodge Retreat “The Future of Europe” with paper “Integrating Religious Minorities in Europe: Lessons from Britain and France”, 5/7 of May 2006.
• “New Labour in Government” – Guest Lecturer, Department of Social and Political Studies, University of Cambridge, 26.01.06— 02.02.06 Series of four lectures on different aspects (Ideological Transformation; Economic and Social Policy; Constitutional Reform and Foreign Policy) of the New Labour Government.