Dr Patrick Burke is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Westminster. He was educated at the universities of Bristol, London, and Westminster. He received his doctorate from the University of Westminster in 2005 for the thesis 'European Nuclear Disarmment. A Study of Transnational Social Movement Strategy'.
He currently teaches on undergraduate courses in comparative politics, including a first-year (Level 4) module of which he is module leader, 'The Politics of Migration' (4PIRS007W); a third-year (Level 6) module, which he also leads, 'The Politics of Protest' (6PIRS017W); the second-year (Level 5) module 'Power and the State' (5PIRS014W); and the first year module 'Political Ideas in Action' (5PIRS010W). He also supervises undergraduate dissertations.
Patrick Burke's research interests include social movements in post-WWII Western and East Central Europe, and the British Left in the Cold War.
Dr Burke is currently working on an extended essay on EP Thompson's writings about the nuclear arms race and the Cold War in the 1980s.