ECRN Members

Agnieszka Pawnik is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She graduated from the Institute of the Middle and Far East (Asian Studies, module: Japan) at Jagiellonian...

Marina Zoe Saoulidou holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Comparative Politics. Her doctoral research, conducted at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), delves into the dynamics of both left- and right-wing populist...

Olena Siden is a Ph.D. student in Philology, at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University (Mykolaiv, Ukraine). Her research interests are discourse analysis, Twitter communication, and populism. Her research during obtaining Master’s Degree was devoted...

Jyot Shikhar Singh is a PhD scholar at the Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. His research explores the existence of a distinct right-wing populist foreign policy approach, with case studies...

Neo Sithole is a PhD candidate at the University of Szeged in Hungary, working on a thesis that explores the history and trends of populism and political communication in sub-Saharan Africa. He has contributed to...

Chloe Smith is a researcher at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, undertaking a PhD in religious populism in the cases of India and Indonesia. She is currently a research assistant in two...

Ricardo Soares has a master's degree in Education Sciences and is currently working as a PhD Fellow at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto. He is developing the project "Educational implications of populism in Portugal: from individual attitudes...

Isobel Squire is a PhD student in Global Politics at the department for Global Political Studies at Malmö University. She holds a MA in Development and International Relations, with a specialization in Global Gender Studies...

Vlad Surdea-Hernea is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Life Sciences in Vienna. He holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and...