Past Visitors to Oxford

Academic Year 2010-2011

Please see the Working Papers section for papers produced by OXPO visitors.

Laurent Fourchard, Michaelmas Term 2010

Nuffield/Sciences Po Visiting Scholar from Centre d’Etudes d'Afrique Noire, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux. He will be based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research interests include the history and politics of self-defence organisations in Nigeria and South Africa and the historiography of cities in Africa. More information about Laurent's plans for this term...

Michel Cahen, Hilary Term 2011

Nuffield/Sciences Po Visiting Scholar from Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux. He will be based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research interests include Portuguese-speaking Africa from 1926 to the 21st century. More information about Michel's plans for this term...

Nathalie Berny, Trinity Term 2011

Nathalie Berny is the Nuffield Oxpo fellow during Trinity. Nathalie comes from SPIRIT at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Bordeaux and her research interests include norm diffusion and organisational capacity-building. During her stay, she will focus on the role of British international environmental NGOs in the EU and in particular on the question of norm diffusions and green diplomacy.

Aurélie Daher, 2010-2011

Visiting Post-doctoral Researcher from Sciences Po, Paris, with a fellowship granted by the Sciences Po Alumni UK Charity Trust. She will be based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research interests include the mobilisation and decision-making processes of the Lebanese Hezbollah. More information about Aurélie's plans for this term...

Mathieu Ichou, 2010-2011

Visiting Doctoral Student from Sciences-Po, Paris. He will be based in the Department of Sociology. His research interests include ethnic inequalities in education in France and the UK. More information about Mathieu's plans for this term...

Nassim Majidi, 2010-2011

Visiting Doctoral Student from Sciences-Po, Paris. She will be based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research interests include the sociology and politics of irregular migration, in particular the migration of Afghans to France and the UK. More information about Nassim's plans for this term...

Academic Year 2009-2010

Please see the Working Papers section for papers produced by OXPO visitors.

Jérôme Sgard, Michaelmas Term 2009

Nuffield/Sciences Po Visiting Scholar from Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris, based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research topic comparative history and political economy of bankruptcy laws. More information about Jérôme's plans for this term...

Laurent Martin, Hilary Term 2010

Nuffield/Sciences Po Visiting Scholar from Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research topics are the press in Europe in the 20th century and the history of censorship. More information about Laurent's plans for this term...

Sabine Saurugger, Trinity Term 2010

Nuffield/Sciences Po Visiting Scholar from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research project is 'Interest groups and democracy in the EU. The construction and the influence of the participatory turn'. More information about Sabine's plans for this term...

Neil Martin, 2009-2010

Visiting Post-doctoral Researcher from CEVIPOF, Sciences Po, Paris, with a fellowship granted by the Sciences Po Alumni UK Charity Trust. He will be based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research topic is the modelling of cooperative behaviour. More information about Neil's plans for this year...

Simon Paye, 2009-2010

Visiting Doctoral Student from Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Sciences-Po, Paris, based in the Department of Sociology. His research topic is the transformation of higher education in the United Kingdom. More information about Simon's plans for this year...

Hélène Thiollet, 2009-2010

Visiting Post-Doctoral Researcher from CEVIPOF, Sciences-Po, Paris, Hilary and Trinity Terms 2009, with a fellowship granted by the Sciences Po Alumni UK Charity Trust. She will be based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research topic is the consequences of migrant labour in Saudi Arabia. More information about Hélène's plans for this year...

Academic Year 2008-2009

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Mirna Safi

Visiting Scholar from Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC), Paris, Michaelmas Term 2008, based in the Department of Sociology. Her research interests include immigration and ethnicity. More information about Mirna's plans for this term...

Sophie Duchesne

Visiting Scholar from CEVIPOF, Paris, Hilary Term 2009, based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research interests include the British national identity. More information about Sophie's plans for this term...

Vincent Tiberj

Visiting Researcher from CEVIPOF, Paris, Trinity Term 2009, based in the Department of Sociology. His research interests include immigrant integration and electoral sociology. More information about Vincent's plans for this term...

Annabelle Allouche

Visiting Doctoral Student from Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, 2008-09, based in the Department of Sociology. Her research interests include participation policies in Higher Education. More information about Annabelle's plans for this year...

Katharine Throssell

Visiting Graduate Student from CEVIPOF, Sciences-Po, Paris, 2008-09, based in the Department of Sociology. Her research interests include political socialisation, children and politics. More information about Katharine's plans for this year...

Natacha Gally

Visiting Graduate Student from CEVIPOF, Sciences-Po, Paris, Hilary and Trinity Terms 2009, based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her research interests include administrative reforms in the British and French civil services. More information about Natacha's plans for this year...

Academic Year 2007-2008

Olivier Rozenberg

Visiting Scholar from CEVIPOF, Paris, Michaelmas Term 2007. His research project is 'Legislatures at the heart of the mechanisms of adjustment to collective preferences. A comparative sociology of parliamentary institutions in Europe'. More information about Olivier's plans for this term...

Guillaume Roux

Visiting Scholar from FNSP, Paris, Hilary Term 2008, based in the Department of Sociology. His research interests include attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the integration of these minorities in an international Western European comparative perspective. More information about Guillaume's plans for this term...

Romain Bertrand

Visiting Researcher from CERI, Sciences Po, Paris, Trinity Term 2008. His research interests include indigenous historicities of the 'colonial encounter' in late 19th century Java. More information about Romain's plans for this term...

Stéphanie Wojcik

Lavoisier Post-doctoral Fellow, 2007-08. Her research interests include deliberation, political discussion, participative democracy, information and communication technologies and democracy, media and politics. More information about Stéphanie's plans for this year...

Thibault Bossy

Visiting Graduate Student from CEVIPOF, Sciences-Po, Paris, 2007-08. His dissertation title is 'A public health problem to define: Social construction of risk and public policy in tackling obesity in France and the UK'. More information about Thibault's plans for this year...

Academic Year 2006-2007

Manlio Cinalli

Visiting Scholar from CEVIPOF, IEP Paris, Trinity Term 2007. His research interests include comparative research with a cross-national focus on political participation and network and questions of ethnic relations and immigration. More information about Manilo's plans for this year...

Stéphanie Wojcik

Visiting Research Assistant from FNSP-CEVIPOF, Paris, Hilary Term 2007. Research interests: deliberation, participation, political discussion, e-democracy, media and politics. More information about Stéphanie's plans for this year...

Isaline Bergamaschi

Visiting Graduate Student from Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, 2006-07, based in the Global Economic Governance Programme
Research interests: the origins and implications of the "new" aid agenda and its guiding principles: aid owership, aid alignment and aid harmonization
More information about Isaline's plans for this year...

Sylvain Brouard

Visiting Researcher from FNSP-CEVIPOF, Paris, Michaelmas Term 2006
Research interests: law-making; legislative studies; constitutional politics; ethnicity, religion and politics; elections and public opinion.
More information about Sylvain's plans for this term...

Charlotte Halpern

Visiting Post-doctoral Researcher from CEVIPOF, Sciences-Po, Paris, 2006-2007
Research interests: public policy, social movements, policy instruments, environmental studies, urban studies, France, Germany, urban sociology
More information about Charlotte's plans for this year...

Mariana Losada,

Visiting Graduate Student from CEVIPOF, Sciences-Po, Paris, 2006-07, based in the Department of Sociology
Research interests: international migration, higher education, student mobility, policy perception, public policy and political sociology
More information about Mariana's plans for this year...

Academic Year 2005-2006

Benoît Cret

Visiting Graduate Student from Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, 2005-06
Research interests: the implementation of accreditation processes, its consequences within French and British Business Schools and the increasing role, and legitimacy of, the three main accreditation agencies within Europe: AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA.
More information about Benoît's plans for this year...

Alexandre Escudier

Visiting Research Fellow from CEVIPOF (Centre d'étude de la vie politique française), Paris, Hilary Term 2006
Research interests: political ideologies, epistemology of social studies, French-German cultural exchange
More information about Alexandre's plans for this term...

Xabier Itçaina

Visiting Research Fellow from CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Sciences Po Bordeaux, Trinity Term 2006
Research Interests: religion and politics, political anthropology of identity, social politics
More information about Xabier's plans for this term...

Sonia Tebbakh

Visiting Research Fellow from Faculté de Droit, des Sciences Politiques, Economiques et de Gestion, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 2005-06
Research interests: the impact of religious identity on the construction of political identity, opinions and values of French and British Muslims and the interactions between religious affiliation and political identity.
More information about Sonia's plans for this year...

Academic Year 2004-2005

Didier Chabanet

Visiting Research Fellow from INRETS (Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Securité) and Institute of Political Studies, Lyon
Didier will be visiting the Department of Politics and International Relations from 30 May - 11 June in order to organise a conference on mobilisation by the unemployed in the countries of the European Union.

Florence Haegel

Visiting Research Fellow from CEVIPOF (Centre d'étude de la vie politique française), Paris
Research interests: the process of politicization; political parties and systems, qualitative research methods
Research projects: How discussion becomes political: citizens talking about policy
To see Florence's report on her time in Oxford, please click here.

Nicolas Rigaud

Visiting Graduate Student
To see Nicolas' report on his time in Oxford, please click here.

Thierry Vedel

CEVIPOF (Centre d'étude de la vie politique française) Research Fellow, Paris
Research interests: politics and the internet; governance and regulation of community networks in the context of globalisation; transformations in political communication; new technologies and society.
To see Thierry's report on his time in Oxford, please click here.