My area of interest is education policy and in particular, higher education policy of the European Union. In my PhD, I am researching the latest EU policy initiative in higher education - the European University Alliances, as potential catalysts of university reforms across the EU.
Conferences
- European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2025, Thessaloniki, paper presentation (August 2025)
- Research and Practice Symposium: European University Alliances 5 Years on, Lugano; Member of the Scientific Committee, co-organiser and presenter (June 2025)
- 5. Conference of Austrian higher education researchers’ network, Vienna; Keynote panellist and presenting research on ‘European Universities Initiative in Austria: (Dis)continuities in higher education landscape’ (May 2025)
- 20th Annual Doctoral Conference, Central European University, paper presentation (April 2025)
- Annual conference of the Centre for Global Higher Education, University of Oxford; Presented the forthcoming edited volume ‘Continuities, Changes and Challenges for European Higher Education Landscape: Five Years of the European Universities Initiative’ (April 2025)
- Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) 36th annual conference, University of Luxembourg, Presented a paper in the panel on ‘Sustainable future(s) of the European Universities Initiative’ (Sept 2024)
- 19th Annual Doctoral Conference, Central European University, paper presentation (April 2025)
- European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2023, Prague; Presented paper on “EU's higher education policy and European University Alliances – A case of renewed regional integration? (Sept 2023)
- University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES); Annual Conference, Belfast, Panel chair – “Europeanisation of Higher Education Policy: The case of European University Alliances” (Sept 2023)