People - Progressive Politics Research Network
Who we are: The Progressive Politics Research Network includes a team of international researchers. Each meeting of the network ensures the autonomous selection and group approval of each year's topics for investigation.
Our core team includes:
Tarik is Associate Professor in European Union and Comparative European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College.
His research focuses on elections, political parties, and the transformation of political competition and democratic representation in post-industrial societies. He received his PhD in political science from Humboldt University Berlin in 2015. Before joining the University of Oxford, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich.
Macarena is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Barcelona.
She obtained her PhD from the European University Institute in 2017. Her research has focused on three main topics: the social class cleavage in post-industrial economies, distributive conflict over welfare policies, and citizens’ responses to institutional performance.
Björn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Central European University.
Previously, he was Senior Researcher in Comparative and International Political Economy at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. His research lies at the intersection of comparative politics, international political economy, and political behaviour. He is particularly interested in the politics of macroeconomic policies, welfare state politics, and the political consequences of economic crises.
Jane is a Professor of Comparative Social Policy in the department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford.
Her research focuses on education and welfare policy, changing political geography, and social democratic parties. She is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research IEP group.
Silja is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.
She studies welfare state politics and party system change in advanced capitalist democracies. She was PI of ERC funded project "Welfarepriorities" and is a co-director of the University Research Priority Program Equality of Opportunity at the University of Zurich.
Hanna is Professor of Political Sociology and Social Policy at the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin.
Located at the intersection between social policy, political sociology, and political economy, her research focuses on social and political inequality, political attitudes, party-voter alignments, political representation, and the political economy of climate change. She obtained her PhD in 2012 from the University of Zurich with a thesis on the politicization of labour market vulnerability in Western Europe.