🚀 Come work with us: 7 PhD positions in #InequalityResearch at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”, @uni-konstanz.de Fully funded (TV-L E13, 75%, 4 years) Start: 1 Oct 2026 Application deadline: 15 Apr 2026 ℹ️ t1p.de/j3vk5, apply here: t1p.de/h5mz9
Alina Felder-Stindt
@europraline.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | @upf.edu | former HSG postdoc and BAGSS fellow| researching 🇪🇺 things, mostly knowledge policies | she/her
How did the war in Ukraine affect consensus and dissensus in the EP? @europraline.bsky.social and I explore this in our new article: "Geopolitical Crises and Consensus in the European Parliament: Initial Response to the War in Ukraine" published in @cogitatiopag.bsky.social.
📢 EUGOV starts with the first seminar of the semester! Alina Jasmin Felder (UPF) will present her work: Rally Around the EU Flag: MEPs’ Response to the Crimean Annexation and Russian Invasion of Ukraine (with Levan Kakhishvili, ETH Zürich) Date: 12 Nov, 13h Room 24.426, Campus Ciutadella, UPF
Just in time for the courses starting at @Upf.edu, I am joining this vibrant institution as Assistant Professor today. I am beyond excited for the new chapter and grateful for the opportunity to continue doing what I love: conducting and teaching political science research.
Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science.
✨ Read all about our terrific ECPR Knowledge Politics and Policies section with its 9 exciting panels on academic freedom, Artificial Intelligence, science diplomacy, universities & more at #ecprgc25 in Thessaloniki in August here era.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/09/21/e... @ecpr.bsky.social
ECPR Knowledge Politics and Policies 2025
The 2025 edition the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, 26-29 August. T
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💥 New article out @reggovjournal.bsky.social Skill-Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden & Britain @ndurazzi.bsky.social @federicofiletti.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social David Hope, Hanna Kleider onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Skill‐Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden and Britain
How have advanced capitalist democracies transitioned from a Fordist to a post-Fordist, knowledge-based economy? And why have they followed seemingly similar policy trajectories despite different eco...
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The #Call for Proposals for the joint #Dreiländertagung #3LT2026 of DVPW, @oegpw.bsky.social & SVPW/ASSP is open. We are looking forward to panel and paper proposals until 14 November 2025! 👉 www.dvpw.de/veranstaltun... #CfP 11/14 #PolSci #PoliticalScience #Europe #Future #SpreadTheWord
2 weeks until deadline! :)
Want to hang out with the Norwegian organizational scholars and talk about temporality and spatial aspects of HE organisations? NEON conference in Kristiansand in November, with Siri Borlaug we are organising a track on higher education. Check out the call here (ours is in English!) www.neonnet.no
📣 Call for Papers is open! In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de @uni-konstanz.de
As a European studies scholar, I have always wanted to contribute with my research to @jcms-eu.bsky.social and now the time has come. Find out how universities do not only benefit from EU project funding but actively shape EU policy at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using, Promoting and Shaping Europeanisation Through Projectification: The Case of Higher Education Institutions
Actors who benefit from the European Union's (EU) opportunity structures strive to expand EU policy-making. A central manner of benefitting from EU opportunity structures is the acquisition of EU fun...
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I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.
JCMS is pleased to announce that from 2027, there will be two special issues published per year. 📚 We’re currently inviting proposals for the Spring and Autumn 2027 Special Issues. For more details, see the full call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
📖 I am happy to have another publication announcement for anyone interested in the #EuropeanUniversitiesInitiative and/or #stakeholderconsultation when developing #flagshipinitiatives. Martina Vukasovic and I delve into ressources exchanged to develop the EUI: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Who you gonna call … when developing a flagship initiative in an area of limited EU competence? A resource exchange perspective on the development of the European Universities Initiative (EUI)
This study focuses on the role of stakeholder organisations in decision-making in an area of limited EU competence. Our case is a rather fast process of development of the European Universities Ini...
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📚 My chapter "Allies in the Combat Against Climate Change? The Role of Climate Change for University Alliances" I contributed to the book "Higher Education Policy for Tackling Climate Change" (eds. Jouni Kekäle and Romulo Pinheiro) is published. 🔗 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Allies in the Combat Against Climate Change? The Role of Climate Change for University Alliances
While the formation of higher education institution (HEI) alliances is usually driven by purposes of internationalization, the European Union has recently turned to HEI alliances as problem solving to...
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How to organize European security? In this International Politics forum, we discuss European actors' choices between orchestrating existing and new institutional layers (compartmentalized multilateralism) or escaping consensus-making with new&old layers @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social
Who is going to UACES @uaces.bsky.social conference 2025 and would be keen to act as discussant on a book panel? The book is my forthcoming monograph on the territorial dimension of EU knowledge policy. Happy to provide more details! 📚 @uacesgf.bsky.social www.routledge.com/The-Territor...
Publication alert - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A while ago I realised that my Dutch colleagues found it quite unusual that German high-school graduates (Abiturient*innen) enter vocational training (VET) although they could enrol for higher education. So, we decided to write a paper about this.
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Attention: Open call for a Ph.D. scholarship in my Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (we include all sub-fields). Excellent PhD Programme, great salary and it's in the middle of wonderful Copenhagen! Deadline for application: 25 February 2024. Start date: 1 September 2024
PhD scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
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So thrilled to be signing off for Christmas break with a book contract under the tree. 📖 Stay tuned for next fall and wish me smooth editing! Also: happy Christmas everyone 🎄
Calling all early career researchers working on knowledge politics & policies Please submit your work for the excellent paper award from the @ecpr.bsky.social Knowledge Politics and Policies Standing Group Deadline 1 February. More info here standinggroups.ecpr.eu/ecprknowledg...
Excellent Paper Competition 2023 | Knowledge Politics and Policies
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🚨Publication alert🚨 Very pleased to see this article with @nilsstockmann.bsky.social out in the very first issue of Contemporary European Politics. Find out more what we started looking at during an EU crisis themed PhD workshop here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Call for papers 👇 On 21 February 2024, we will be hosting a workshop on "Exploring the Politics of Long-Termism", as part of my NWO-funded EXPLOT project. There is some (at least partial) funding available to attend the event. I'd be most grateful if you could share! polisky
Are you a social scientist working on (political debates and policies to tackle) skills shortage? Make sure to join @ndurazzi.bsky.social and me at #ecprjs24 in our workshop on “The Politics and Policies of Skills Shortage”. We are looking forward to your contributions!
I’m looking for scholars who want to be part of a knowledge policy panel at #sgeu24 (panel description below). In case you are interested in contributing to this panel as paper-giver send your abstract (300words) until 16 November 2023 to alinajasmin.felder@unisg.ch.