Matthew Broad is a doctoral researcher at the Department of History, University of Reading. He holds a Master's degree in Modern History. His current research adopts a comparative transnational methodology, examining the relations between British Labour and the Danish Social Democrats over the issue of European integration and the Cold War between 1958 and 1972. To contact Matthew directly please email him.

Isabelle Hertner is a PhD candidate, teaching and research assistant at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London. She holds a Master's degree from the College of Europe (Bruges) and has previously worked for an NGO in Brussels. Her main research interests relate to the 'Europeanisation' of social democratic parties and the question how national party organizations adapt to European politics. Moreover, Isabelle is interested in the development of Europarties and their networks. To contact Isabelle directly please email her.

Christian Salm is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR) at the University of Portsmouth. He holds am combined M.A. degree in History, Political Science and Philosophy of the Humboldt University Berlin (2007). In his PhD project, Christian investigates the role of Social democratic parties in European Community agenda-setting and policy-making in the 1970s. He worked for the German Council for Foreign Relations and the PSE Group in the European Parliament. For more information please see Christian's profile on the CEISR website.

Brian Shaev is a doctoral candidate at the Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, from which he received a Master’s degree in History. His research focuses on the attitudes and policies of the German Social Democratic and French Socialist leaderships towards Franco-German reconciliation and early European integration initiatives from the immediate post-WWII period to the Treaties of Rome. To contact Brian you can email him directly.