Current PhD Students
PhD students in the Department of Political Science form a central part of our research community. Working across diverse areas of political theory, comparative politics, international relations, and quantitative methods, they contribute to the Department’s vibrant academic life through seminars, teaching, and collaborative projects. Below you can find details of our current PhD researchers and their areas of study.
| Student Name/Email | Title of Doctoral Thesis | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| 4th Year | ||
| Valeriia Babaian | Bringing culture back in: Why some legacies outlive others? | Noah Buckley |
| Sofia Jesus | The impact of social comparison on support for redistribution and outgroup favouritism | Gizem Arikan |
| Junjie Liu | Transfer Learning of Tabular Data for Conflict Forecasting | Thomas Chadefaux |
| Lily Rice |
Introducing the Stringency of Sentencing Principles (SSP) Index: How and Why does Sentencing Policy Strictness Vary Across the OECD-38? |
Raj Chari |
| Tianxin Zhang | Money, Guns, and Training: How do different sources of funding and resources affect civilian control and military effectiveness? | Jesse Dillon Savage |
| 3rd Year | ||
| Soumiya Benaali Bakkar | Gender and the Radical Right: Framing, Mobilisation, and Electoral Change in Western Europe | Alexander Held |
| Eleni Karagianni | Disasters, Discourse, and Democracy: Examining the Electoral and Policy Implications of Climate-Related Natural Disasters. | Constantine Boussalis |
| Jamie Mc Clenaghan | The costs and consequences of strategic party issue emphasis. | Liam Kneafsey |
| Jennifer Moynihan |
Militant Democracy in Theory and Practice |
Peter Stone |
| Clémence Pellissier | Explaining Similarity and Dissimilarity in ICJ and International Tribunals and Court's Cases | Matthias Dilling |
| Juliane Wesselmann |
Gender Stereotypes in Political Votes: A Cross-European Comparison. |
Gail McElroy |
| 2nd Year | ||
| Luka De Lacey | Winning the Workers: variations in Social Democratic Party strategies chasing a ‘lost’ working class? | Liam Kneafsey |
| Mairi Kachur | Measuring Business Influence in the European Parliament: The Cases of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation and the Digital Services Act | Raj Chari |
| Sarah Magdihs | Between Representation and Contestation: The (Anti-)Gender Politics of Populist Radical Right Parties | Gail McElroy |
| Rubèn Llorens Poblador | The Bidirectional Linguistic Voting Gap: A Comparative Approach | Tom Paskhalis |
| Jan Onno Steenweg | Political attitudes over the lifecycle. Evolution and mechanisms of attitude change throughout adulthood | Gizem Arikan |
| Lisanne Van Vucht | Russia-Assertiveness in the European Parliament: A Supranational Analysis of Party Positions | Matthias Dilling |
| 1st Year | ||
| Aisling Casey | Beyond Consensus: Conditional Support for Military Neutrality in European Union Neutral States | Lisa Keenan |
| Esther Doumen | The Shadow of the Past: The Influence of Memory and Identity on Citizens. Responsiveness to Autocratization | Jiwon Baik and Matthias Dilling |
| Nalia Feree | Title: Investigating the responsiveness of executive powers to deliberative mini-publics | Peter Stone |
| Aryan Goyal | Citizens’ appetite for hate: How everyday citizens navigate rising hateful rhetoric | Jeff Ziegler |
| Solenn Hughes | Double Machine Learning and representation learning with satellite imagery | Thomas Chadefaux |
| Alexander Lechner | Election Winners and Losers and Their Support for Democracy | Gail McElroy |