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Véronique Mottier is a Fellow, Director of Studies and College Associate Professor at Jesus College, Cambridge (since 1999) & Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences/Centre for Gender Studies, University of Lausanne (since 2006).

Having grown up in the Netherlands and Tunisia, she currently divides her time between the UK and Switzerland. She received a Certificat d’Etudes Françaises Modernes and studied two degrees concurrently in Political Science (BA & MA) and Sociology (BA) at the University of Geneva. She obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge (Clare College) in 1998, supervised by Anthony Giddens. She was Junior Lecturer (1989-93) and ‘Maître-Assistante’ (1997-1999) in Political Theory at the University of Geneva; Visiting researcher at King’s College, Cambridge (1993-1994); fixed-term University Lecturer in Sociology at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge (1999-2002); and SNF Research Professor in Politics and Sociology, Institut d’Etudes Politiques et Internationales, University of Lausanne (2002-2006). She has taught summer schools in Discourse Theory and Analysis at the ECPR Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection at the University of Essex (1999-2006), the European University Institute in Florence (2001-2006), and the Swiss PhD Summer School in Advanced Methods in the Social Sciences in Lugano (since 1999-). She has delivered guest lectures at many other universities, including the University of the West Indies (Mona/Jamaica), Makerere, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Pune (India), Oxford, Hamburg, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dundee, Leeds, Lille, Loughborough, Luzern, UCM (Maastricht), Neuchâtel, Roskilde, UCL (London), Basel, Geneva and Zürich.