Profile

Areas of expertise

• Comparative public policy and management
• Comparative social policy
• Social exclusion / Poverty
• European integration
• Political sociology

Biography

After studying Political Science and Sociology at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Lille (France) and at the University of Muenster (Germany) between 2001 and 2005, I started working on my doctoral thesis at the Graduate School of Politics Muenster in 2006, while teaching undergraduate students in Politics and contributing research to a local poverty study.

Supported by a research grant of the German Academic Foundation, I later spent 18 months at the University of York as Visiting Scholar in the Social Policy Research Unit, as member of the Welfare and Employment team.

Before joining the Department of Social Policy and Social Work in May 2010 and teaching on the Online Masters Programme, I worked as Lecturer in Public Policy and Programme Director of the MSc/MRes 'Public Policy and Management' at Birkbeck College London, replacing the regular holder of that position while she was on research leave.

Currently, I continue working at Birkbeck College as Sessional Lecturer in Public Policy and Management in addition to my responsibilities as Online Teaching Fellow at the University of York.

Research

Current research interests and projects

• Policies against social exclusion and poverty: A comparison of France and the United Kingdom (doctoral thesis, to be finished in December 2010)
• The relationship between social policies, social structure and the democratic quality of societies (ongoing)
• The context of public policy making (ongoing)