Monika Brusenbauch Meislová is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University in Brno, where she supervises the Master’s programme in European Studies. She is also a Visiting Professor at Aston University in Birmingham and Jean Monnet Chair in EU digital diplomacy. Here additional roles include membership of the Scientific Council of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and an associate membership of the Centre for Research on English-Speaking World (CREW) at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. She also serves as an associate editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development and member of the editorial committee of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies and Central European Journal of International and Security Studies. Her research work covers issues of political discourse, EU legitimacy and EU-UK relations. Her most recent research has been published in various journals, including Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, European Security, British Politics, or Political Quarterly. She is also involved in many research projects – both in the roles of principal investigator and work package leader. She is frequently sought after by media outlets for her expert commentaries.

Simona Dianová is a PhD student engaged in a dual supervision program, known as ‘cotutelle’, at the Centre for Research on the English-Speaking World at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris and the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno. Her research focuses on how the British key political figures have been using fear in their discourse on Brexit and UK-EU relations in the post-referendum period. Recently, she co-authored her first scientific article with Brusenbauch Meislová, published in the journal British Politics. Currently, she is participating in a multidisciplinary research project affiliated with the University of Liège, which brings together ten doctoral students from various countries to explore the subject of Euroscepticism in Western Europe from 1979 to 2024. This project aims to publish a collective work.