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Uta Staiger is an Associate Professor of European Studies at University College London, where she is co-appointed in the Faculty of Laws and serves as the Director of the UCL European Institute. Since 2010, she has led the European Institute, designated as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence by the European Commission, with a mission to develop and support UCL’s research and teaching on European affairs. She advises UCL leadership on European matters and works to maximize the impact of UCL's expertise beyond the university. In 2017, she was appointed Pro-Vice-Provost (Europe), playing a strategic role in shaping UCL’s engagement with European higher education partners and influencing policy. She has contributed to institutional responses to significant issues such as Brexit and the Russia-Ukraine war. Uta’s research intersects modern European thought, culture, and politics, focusing on political action within liberal democracies, and the reinvention of aesthetics in political thought. Her scholarly output includes a special issue of Global Policy on Brexit and an open-access edited volume discussing the future of Brexit in Europe. She is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.