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 |
|---|---|---|
| Valeriia Babaian | Bringing culture back in: Why some legacies outlive others? | Noah Buckley |
| Soumiya Benaali Bakkar | Alexander Held | |
| Callum Craig | Collective Victimhood Narratives in US Politics: Identifying Elite Victimhood Claims and Their Outcomes | Constantine Boussalis |
| Andrej Cvetic | The impact of electoral success of the right-wing populist parties on political integration of Muslims in Western Europe | Gizem Arikan |
| Lucas Da Silva | Ideological Media Markets, Cross-Pressured Voters, and Spatial Voting: A Computational and Experimental Approach | Constantine Boussalis |
| Hannah Frank | Forecasting Transitions in Civil War | Thomas Chadefaux |
| Sofia Jesus | The impact of social comparison on support for redistribution and outgroup favouritism | Gizem Arikan |
| Eleni Karagianni | Disasters, Discourse, and Democracy: Examining the Electoral and Policy Implications of Climate-Related Natural Disasters. | Constantine Boussalis |
| Junjie Liu | Transfer Learning of Tabular Data for Conflict Forecasting | Thomas Chadefaux |
| Jamie Mc Clenaghan | The costs and consequences of strategic party issue emphasis. | Liam Kneafsey |
| Jennifer Moynihan |
Endangered Democracies: from Ancient Insights to Modern Innovations. |
Peter Stone |
| Jack O'Neill | Examining the lobbying behaviour and strategies of Multinational Enterprises before, during, and after the Covid-19 pandemic. | Raj Chari |
| Clémence Pellissier | Matthias Dilling | |
| Lily Rice |
Introducing the Stringency of Sentencing Principles (SSP) Index: How and Why does Sentencing Policy Strictness Vary Across the OECD-38? |
Raj Chari |
| Marina Schenkel | The Effect of Populism on Health Emergencies: Explaining Variation in Government Responses to COVID-19 | Constantine Boussalis |
| Thomas Schincariol | Identification and classification of climatic patterns to forecast conflict-related processes | Thomas Chadefaux |
| Juliane Wesselmann |
Gender Stereotypes in Political Votes: A Cross-European Comparison. |
Gail McElroy |
| Tianxin Zhang | Money, Guns, and Training: How do different sources of funding and resources affect civilian control and military effectiveness? | Jesse Dillon Savage |