School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

Profile

Dr. Karen Heard-Lauréote is a Senior Lecturer in European Politics and Public Policy at the University of Portsmouth. Her main expertise lies in transnational networks and their role in and impact on regional integration. She is Chair of the British Association of Centres of European studies (BACES) and Deputy Director of the University’s Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR). As Chair of BACES, Karen is involved in the defence and promotion of the European Studies field in higher education, with a primary focus on the United Kingdom. As CEISR Deputy Director, Karen is primarily occupied with the encouragement, support and promotion of high-quality research to enable the Research Centre to maintain its leading position in interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences. In order to do this Karen works with other research leaders to consolidate and improve its position as a hub for high-quality high-impact research at a regional, national and international level.

Qualifications

• Title-holder of the University's Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies (April 2011 -)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Recognised August 2007)
• Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (November 2006)
• PhD: European Studies (May 2005). University of Portsmouth, Title: The Agricultural Advisory Committees and their role in the Legitimisation of European Commission Activities in the Agricultural Policy Sector
• Post-graduate Diploma with Distinction in Social Research Methods (December 2003). University of Portsmouth
• BA Honours Degree in European Studies with First Class Honours and Distinction for spoken language performance in French (June 2001). University of Portsmouth.
• Winner: The Brittany Ferries Prize for best European Studies dissertation. Title: Policy network theory in French and European agricultural policy, and the impact of policy networks on environmental policy failure.
• Certificat d’Études Politiques (with Honours) (June 2000) Science Politique, Rennes, France

Teaching

• Senior Lecturer in European Politics and Public Policy
• Course Leader Masters in European Studies, Masters in International relations and European Studies and Masters in European Law and Policy

Research Clusters

•  Transnational Europe

Discipline Areas

• European Studies
• Politics and International Relations

Research CV

Current Research Projects

• The Experts Group – Faculty Strategic Project exploring the role and impact of experts and expertise on policymaking.
• British Academy funded project which explores the regulation of expertise in comparative perspective between the US and the EU. 
• European Research Council  Consolidator Grants - Proposal currently being formulated for a global comparative project between the EU and two other regional organizations to explore the nature and extent of diffusion of the principle of environmental policy integration.

Authored Books

• Heard-Lauréote, K. (2010). European Union Governance: The Legitimacy and Effectiveness of European Commission Advisory Forums. London: Routledge

Journal Articles 

• Heard-Lauréote, K. (2009) (with Börzel, T. A.) Networks in EU Multi-level Governance: Concepts and Contributions.  Journal of Public Policy, 29(2), 135-152. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.727
• Heard-Lauréote, K. (2008). The Commission’s Advisory Groups and Committees in the Field of Agricultural Policy. Journal of European Integration, 30 (4), 579-. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.75
• Heard-Lauréote, K. (2006). A transparency gap? The case of European Agricultural Committee governance. Public Policy and Administration, 22(2), 255-274. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.37

Book Chapters 

• Heard-Lauréote, K. (Forthcoming: March 2013). Beyond Maastricht: Societal Actors in European Integration since 1992. In: W. Kaiser and J-H Meyer (Eds.). Societal actors in European Integration: Polity Building and Policy Making 1958-92. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Heard-Lauréote, K. (Forthcoming: May 2013). The Europeanization of Health Policy: The Role of EU Institutions. In: C. Bretherton & M. Mannin (Ed). Palgrave
• Heard-Lauréote, K. (2009). European Commission committees: a valid arena for the reconstruction and relocation of political legitimacy? (pp. 183-204). In I. Bluehdorn (Ed.), In Search of Legitimacy: Policy Making in Europe and the Challenge of Complexity. Opladen: Barbara Budrich.
• Heard-Lauréote, K. (2008). The democratic quality of networks. In W. Kaiser, M. Gehler and B. Leucht (Eds.), Networks in European Multi-Level Governance From 1945 to the Present. Boehlau.
• Heard-Lauréote, K. (2005). Transnational networks: Informal governance in the European political space. In W. Kaiser and P. Starie (Eds.), Transnational European Union: Towards a Common Political Space? London: Routledge.

Grants Received

• April 2012: EU Grant of 21,000 Euros (Total income with co-financing of 33,264 Euros) to fund the development of a Masters-level simulation unit entitled Policy and Networks: The Governance of the EU as a Jean Monnet Module over three years. 
• January 2012: £500 from the UACES Conference Support Fund.
• 2010: £7,272 from the British Academy Small Research Grants scheme to fund research for project entitled: The impact of transparency enhancements on the technical effectiveness and democratic responsiveness of US Federal Advisory Committees and European Commission Expert Groups.
• 2007: £7,065 from the Nuffield Foundation Small Research Grants scheme to fund research for monograph, Efficiency and Legitimacy in European Commission Advisory Committee.
• 2007: £7,065 from the British Academy Small Grants scheme (not taken up)
• 2007: £500 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant to fund attendance at the EUSA conference, Montreal, Canada, May 2007

External Roles 

• Chair of the British Association of Centres of European Studies (BACES)
• Member of the UACES Executive Committee
• Trustee of UACES
• Member of the UACES Internationalisation and Engagement Working Group (I&E wg)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy - Recognised on the 20^th August 2007
• Institutional Representative of the European Consortium for Political research (ECPR)
• Associate Cluster Representative (Research Cluster Transnational Europe) on CEISR Executive Committee, University of Portsmouth, UK
• Member of the: 
  • Political Studies Association (PSA)
  • European Union Studies Association (EUSA)