Early Stage Researchers (ESRs)
PLATO's 15 PhD researchers have been recruited by the project's nine university partners and are enrolled at local PhD programmes across Europe.
Gil Thompson
ESR1@Berlin
Learning Europe at its borders: how deployments to migration hotspots affect Europeans’ understandings of themselves and society
Radu-Mihai Triculescu
ESR2@Twente
Harmonized asylum policies in the European Union? The role of bureaucrats in the implementation of the Common European Asylum System
Elena Escalante Block
ESR3@Paris
The (de)politicisation of state aid policies and its impact on the EU’s legitimacy
Julien Bois
ESR4@Berlin
Endangered judicial legitimacy in times of political turmoil: the European Court of Justice between law and politics during the great recession of Europe
Philipp Lausberg
ESR5@Antwerp
European banking union and fiscal policy reform: how to explain delegations of power to the EU in the wake of the financial crisis?
Claire Godet
ESR6@Oslo
Legitimate despite the quarrel: the EU’s legitimation troubles in the negotiations of the Emissions Trading System
Ivana Skazlić
ESR7@Vienna
Legitimacy of the European Semester: does parliamentary involvement make a difference?
Emilija Tudzarovska-Gjorgjievska
ESR8@Prague
The anti-corruption strategies between checks and balances: the cost of EU legitimation approach
Joris Melman
ESR9@Oslo
The public and the Euro: on legitimacy, visibility and political imagination
Dominika Proszowska
ESR10@Twente
Political trust and multilevel governance: trust differentiation across the local, national and EU level
Camille Dobler
ESR11@Krakow
Talking about Europe: legitimacy and identity at the border
Bas Redert
ESR12@Antwerp
Stakeholder involvement in EU financial regulation: a study on the European Supervision Authorities
Jose Piquer
ESR13@Cambridge
Choiceless Europe? Political legitimation in Britain and Spain during the financial and economic crisis
Jan Pesl
ESR14@Oslo
The EU's post-crisis legitimacy and the public sphere
Tiffany G. Williams
ESR15@Vienna
Securing citizen buy-in to support partnership by conditionality: investigating determinants for European Union support in the South Caucasus
Former ESR
Petra Petan
ESR15@Vienna
October 2017 - March 2018
