Research Students

ANGELOU, Angelos
Contact details:  A.Angelou@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: Diverging Perceptions: Perceptions and biases held by the European Commission , and the International Monetary Fund regarding the first Greek bailout
Supervisors: Dr. Mareike Kleine and Professor Kevin Featherstone
Further information: CV

AVLIJAS, Sonja
Contact details:S.Avlijas@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Registered Student
Research Topic: "Explaining variation in female labour force participation across Eastern Europe: The political economy of industrial upgrading and service transition."
Research interests: Gender, labour markets, social policy, transition, capitalist diversity
Supervisors: Prof Sarah Ashwin and Dr William Bartlett
Further information: CV

BORRELL-PORTA, Mireia
Contact details: M.Borrell@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic:  "The Limits of Policy Transfer in the EU: the Impact of Family Values on Labour Market Outcomes in Europe"
Research Interests: Labour-market policy, informal institutions and culture, the Euro-Mediterranean Area
Supervisors: Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis and Dr Joan Costa Font
Further information: CV

CHARLTON, Nathan
Contact details: N.G.Charlton@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: "Institutional lineages of the European city"
Research Interests: Urbanism, European history, philosophy of history, public space
Supervisors: Dr Jonathan White and Dr Simon Glendinning

CIAGLIA, Sarah
Contact details: s.a.ciaglia@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: Economic preferences and co-operation in the European Monetary Union
Research Interests: European Monetary Union, Rules, Game Theory
Supervisors: Prof Kevin Featherstone and Prof Paul De Grauwe

CINO-PAGLIARELLO, Marina 
Contact details:  M.Cino-Pagliarello1@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Registered Student
Research Topic: 'The power of ideas in the evolution of European education policy: from workers’ mobility to European competitiveness'
Research interests: Vocational training, education, Europeanization, European Integration, social partners Supervisors: Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis and Dr William Bartlett Further information: CV

DOBRESCU, Madalina
Contact details: M.Dobrescu@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: "Europeanisation and Conflict Resolution in the EU's Neighbourhood"
Research interests: The European Union's external relations with Eastern Europe, Conflict and peace dynamics in Europe's neighbourhood, Europeanisation processes.
Supervisors: Dr Spyros Economides and Dr James Ker-Lindsay
Further information: CV

HERMAN, Lise
Contact details: L.Herman@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: 'Defining partisan alternatives in the political mainstream, A grass-root perspective from France and Hungary'
Research Interests: Parties and partisanship, Democratic theory, Comparing new and old European democracies, Text and practice based methodologies
Supervisors: Dr Abby Innes and Dr Jonathan White
Further information: CV

HOERNER, Julian
Contact details: j.m.hoerner@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: "Parliamentary Scrutiny of EU Affairs in Practice: Explaining Divergence of Formal Scrutiny Arrangements and Actual Activity in the Plenary and in Committees"
Research interests: Comparative Politics, Europeanization, Legislative Studies, National Parliaments
Supervisors: Prof Sara B. Hobolt and Prof Kevin Featherstone

HUME, Michael
Contact details: m.j.hume@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: “Policy and the Euro Crisis”
Research Interests: European Economics, Global and European Financial Imbalances, Varieties of Capitalism, Political Economy of the Euro Crisis
Supervisors: Prof Paul de Grauwe and Dr Waltraud Schelkle

IVANOVA, Katya
Contact details: k.d.ivanova@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: "International norms and domestic change: antidiscrimination and the Roma of Europe"
Research Interests: Anti-discrimination policy, international human rights, minority rights, Roma and segregation
Supervisors: Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece and Dr Claire Gordon
Further information: CV

Marta Lorimer

Contact details: m.lorimer@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: From 'Nation Europe' to 'Technocratic Brussels': The meanings of 'Europe' for the Far Right (working title)

Research interests: Far right parties in Europe (especially France and Italy), ideas of Europe, Europe in politics.
Supervisors: Dr Jonathan White, Professor Roger Eatwell (University of Bath)

MARLEY, Jonathan
Contact details: J.M.Marley@lse.ac.uk 
Status: Part Time Research Student
Research topic: "International Organisations application of conditionality and normative pressure in post-conflict territories"
Research Interests: International Organisations: EU, NATO, OSCE, UN; International Intervention; European Foreign, Security and Defence policies; EU policy towards the Western Balkans; Security Sector Reform
Supervisor: Dr Spyros Economides

MARTELLI, Angelo 
Contact details: a.martelli@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student 
Research Topic: 'The Political Economy of Employment Polarisation: Global Forces and Domestic Institutions'
Research Interests: Job Polarisation, Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions and Policies, Income Inequality 
Supervisors: Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis and Prof Tito Boeri

MØRKØRE STIGEL HANSEN, Bjarke
Contact details: B.Morkore-Stigel-Hansen@lse.ac.uk 
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: “Europe in the Margins: The Philosophy of Europe and Beyond”
Research Interests: Deconstruction; Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; German Idealism and Romanticism.
Supervisors: Prof Simon Glendinning and Dr Jonathan White

PAPALEXATOU, Chrysoula 
Contact details: c.papalexatou@lse.ac.uk 
Status: Full Time Registered Student 
Research Topic: EMU and Economic inequality: is there any link?
Research Interests: Economic inequality, European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), Economic and Monetary integration
Supervisors: Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis and Dr Waltraud Schelkle

PASTORELLA, Giulia 
Contact details: g.pastorella@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Registered Student 
Research Topic: "Technocratic Governments in Europe"
Research interests: Comparative politics, technocracy, crisis politics, democratic theory.
Supervisors: Prof Sara Hobolt and Dr Jonathan White 

ROLDAN MONES, Antonio  (on interruption 2013-14)
Contact details: a.roldan@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Registered Student
Research Topic: "The Political Economy of the Spanish Financial Crisis: the role of the Spanish Saving Banks" Research interests: Political Economy of Crisis and Reform, Macroeconomics, Economics of Organizations, Eurozone Governance.
Supervisors:  Prof Paul de Grauwe and Prof Luis Garicano

TUYTENS, Pieter
Contact details: P.Tuytens@lse.ac.uk 
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: "The limits of risk privatisation – why did governments intervene in private pension supervision after the crisis?"
Research Interests: Welfare reform, finance-social policy nexus, institutional change.
Supervisors: Dr Waltraud Schelkle and Dr Bob Hancké

WERDINE-NORRIS, Maria
Contact details: M.C.Werdine@lse.ac.uk 
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic:  "The boundary-security nexus and British counter-terrorism strategy"
Research Interests:  British counter-terrorism legislation and strategy; British identity; exclusion; Boundary theory; Securitization theory; British Muslims
Supervisor: Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece and Prof Connor Gearty

WOLKENSTEIN, Fabio 
Contact details: g.f.wolkenstein@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Registered Student
Research Topic: "Deliberative Democracy Within Parties" (working title)
Research interests: Social and Political Theory, Political Parties, Populism and Political Extremes
Supervisors: Dr Jonathan White and Dr Abby Innes
Further information: CV

WRATIL, Christopher
Contact details: C.Wratil@lse.ac.uk 
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic: 'Governing Europe for the People? Public Preferences and Policy-Making in the European Union'
Research Interests: Democratic responsiveness, political behaviour and preference formation, theories of international institutions and European integration, quantitative methods
Supervisors: Prof Sara Hobolt and Dr Sara Hagemann

 ZOIDO OSES, Paula
Contact details: P.D.Zoido-Oses@lse.ac.uk
Status: Full Time Research Student
Research Topic:   "Isaiah Berlin and the political: an essay on human nature"
Research Interests: Political and moral philosophy, Liberalism, Freedom, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of history, History of philosophy.
Supervisors: Dr Simon Glendinning and Prof Paul Kelly