April 1, 2016- May 4, 2016

Cesar Guzman-Concha (Scuola Normale Superiore – Florence, Italy)

Cesar Guzman-Concha is a research fellow in the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy), at the Center of Social Movement Studies (COSMOS). Before that he was postdoctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Cesar’s research interests focus on the making of radical social movements, the interaction between social movements and political parties, including the policy impacts of political activism, and configurational research methods. Currently he is engaged in a comparative project (with Donatella Della Porta) that looks at the ways in which grassroot organizations achieve policy change, looking at recent student movements in four countries. (https://sns.academia.edu/CesarGuzmanConcha).

March 1, 2016- April 30, 2016

Sergio Lo Iacono (University of Essex)

Sergio Lo Iacono is a PhD candidate (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council) in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. His research interests include trust, social cohesion, collective action dilemmas, and social networks.

February 15, 2016- April 22, 2016

Ralf Esperschidt (University of Heidelberg)

Ralf Esperschidt is an undergraduate student at the University of Heidelberg. During his studies of Political Science he also attended courses at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Sonoma State University. His research interests include: US Foreign Policy, Comparative European Studies and International Conflict Research.

February 2016 – April 2016

Alexander Wuttke (University of Mannheim)

Alexander Wuttke is a PhD student at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His dissertation is about voting as a civic duty and the interplay of norms and political behavior in general. Currently, he is involved in projects surveying German party members and a large-scale field-experiment on the effects of interest groups´ mailings on political attitudes in. His research interests include political psychology, electoral studies and political parties.

September 2015 – September 2016

Justin Park (Fulbright student)

Justin holds a BA in Political Science/ International Relations and a minor in French from University of California- Los Angeles (’12). He worked as a research assistant at the Korea Institute of National Unification studying the current trends in North-South Korea relations. The following year he joined the Peace Corps and served in Cameroon for two years as an English teacher and a music teacher at a local high school. He also organized a city-wide HIV/AIDS campaign for World AIDS day that tested 1,000 locals and sensitized the public about the dangers and the prevention methods. As an independent Fulbright visiting student, he currently works on a research project on naturalisation among African immigrants in Québec.

June 2015 – February 2016

Leonor Flores (University of Barcelona)

Leonor Flores is researcher of the Spanish Policy Agendas Project at the University of Barcelona. She holds a BA in Journalism and Political Science (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and a MA in Political Analysis and Institutional Assessment (University of Barcelona). She has worked as a journalist in media (newspapers and radio) and in press offices in both, private and public institutions.
Currently, Flores is developing her PhD about media coverage of business corruption in Spanish and Canadian newspapers. Her research interests include: political communication, policy agenda, media and corruption.

September 2015 – August 2016

Felipe Colomé (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

I am a Sociology Ph.D. student at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. I conducted studies during my master’s degree in Social Sciences about the political consumerism in southern Brazil. In this work I investigated consumption practices of solidarity economy movement. For my dissertation I am investigating the consumption practices of vegans in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. In this research I am studying how these practices can be perceived as new forms of political action. My research interests include political participation, political consumerism, sociology of consumption and social movements.

Elina Lindgren (University of Gothenburg)

Elina Lindgren is a PhD candidate from the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. Elina works on the effect of campaign rhetoric on voter perceptions of policy proposals. She will start her stay here by analyzing data from a new experiment where she presents respondents with differently formulated election promises. The recent experiment is based on face-to-face experiment in a central station, but she has also worked a lot with the Citizen Panel in Gothenburg.

Bolette Danckert (University of Copenhagen)

Bolette Danckert is a Ph.D student at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science. Her research focusses on the effects of ethnic diversity on interethnic attitudes and political opinions.

Louise Donkor (University of Liverpool)

Louise Donkor is a Ph.D student in Politics and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests are gender, media and representation.

Tamar de Waal (University of Amsterdam)

Tamar de Waal is a Ph.D researcher at the Paul Scholten center, University of Amsterdam (UvA). Her research is on how civic integration tests fit into liberal democratic states. It is conducted under supervision of Prof. M. de Wilde and Dr. R. Pierik. Tamar holds a degree in international criminal law (LL.M, UvA/Columbia Law School New York) and also completed a BA in philosophy (honors, UvA, UCL).

Annika Freden (Lund University)

Annika Freden is a PhD student at Lund University. Her main research interests are strategic voting, contemporary European politics and statistical methods. She also works with experimental methods. Annika has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Gothenburg (2011) and have studied political science at the University of Stirling, Scotland.

September 2014 to February 2015

Rania Karchoud (Institut de Presse et des Sciences de l’Information de Tunis)

Rania Karchoud is a PhD student at l’Institut de Presse et des Sciences de l’Information de Tunis. Her research interests include : Communication strategy, political communication, partisan communication, and media relations

September 2014 to January 2015

Francesco Visconti   (University of Sienna)

Martin Francesco Visconti is a PhD student at the University of Sienna. His Research interests include : electoral accountability, economic interdependence and economic voting.

September 2014 to January 2015

Martin Vinaes Larsen   (University of Coppenhagen)

Martin Vinaes Larsen is a PhD student at the University of Coppenhagen. His research focuses on electoral accountability, economic interdependence and economic voting.