I am currently serving as Deputy Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester focused on the strategic and operational delivery of improvements in Postgraduate Research provision and outcomes. Alongside that role, my current research is concerned with regional development banks and the intellectual and financial advice they provide to countries, in particular the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Eastern Europe's regional development bank.I have spent much of the last decade focused on Poland's post-communist transition, in particular how neoliberalism was configured in Poland after 1989. In recent years I have explored some of the variety of responses to neoliberalism in Eastern Europe especially why resistance has often been populist, right wing and nationalist. My teaching interests lie in International Political Economy and how the global economy is governed. I completed my PhD on the transnational dimension of regime transformation in Eastern Central Europe at Aberystwyth's world famous Department of International Politics, in February 2002, and joined Manchester in September 2003. I was founding secretary of the Critical Political Economy Research Network of the European Sociological Association until September 2007, and was convenor of the BISA International Political Economy working group from 2008 to 2011. I've been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.My book The International Political Economy of Transition, was shortlisted for the 2013 BISA IPEG book prize, and my 2013 article about populism in Poland in Third World Quarterly was nominated for the biennial Aquila Polonica Prize, for the best English-language article published during the previous two years on any aspect of Polish studies.