Ian Burton

Ian is research assistant at the chair of Public Administration and Organization Theory. He works within the joint research project ‘Evaluation in International Organizations’, led by Prof. Dr. Steffen Eckhard (University of Konstanz), as part of Research Unit ‘International Public Administration’, led by Prof. Dr. Christoph Knill (LMU Munich) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). More information: ipa-research.com 

Ian holds a bachelor’s degree in Law and Criminology (LLB) from the University of Sheffield where he specialised in public and international law and criminological research. His research featured quantitative analysis of global crime trends over recent decades and comparative analyses of legal systems across the EU.

Currently Ian is in the second year of a double-degree master’s program in partnership with the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He completed his first year there, completing research projects on international political economy and comparative politics and is now undertaking the MA program in Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. He is following two specializations; International Relations and European Integration and Interdisciplinary Empirical Research Methods.