SCEUS Doctoral College: PhD Topics
Since 2008 doctoral students are employed by the University of Salzburg to do their research on the “Boundaries of European Integration” at the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies.
PhD Topics 2023-2026
Lorane Visart – EP parties and the Geopoliticization of trade: adding fuel to the Commission’s fire?
Peter Pfeifenberger – Narratives in the European Union and Their Impact on Decision-Making – A Text Mining Approach
Tehseen Jäger – Informal employment and patterns of precariousness among third-country nationals in EU Member States
Gaia Chiarini – National Deposit Guarantee Schemes as compensation for the European Deposit Insurance Scheme
PhD Topics 2020-2023
Sarah Deisl – Effect of the Member States’ Rule of Law crisis on the division of competences among EU organs
Mariana Mykyliuk – Quo vadis, Europe? Border controls within the Schengen area
Anna Stelzer – Heterogeneous effects of monetary policy in the euro area
Nico Petz – Modelling Non-linear Macroeconomic Dynamics Using Gaussian Processes
Léo Gotarda – The Mainstreaming of Climate Change into all EU Policies
Karin Klieber – Macroeconomic Forecasting in the Post Covid Era
Klaudia Koxha – Populism and European Integration in Western Balkans
Ermela Gianna – The European Parliament in times of Covid-19: Fast Track Democracy?
Birgit Mitter – Veins of European Cultural Policy: Awarding, Effects and Sustainability of European Cultural Project Funding
PhD Topics 2017-2020
Carina Kobler – Mobile (24-Hour Care) Workers in the European Union: Different Labor Regimes and their (Social) Implications in Practice
Thomas Lehner – Governments, Parties, and the Public – The Multiple Layers of Conflict During the Euro Crisis
Milena Kern – Opportunities and risks of free movement of services in the EU
Christian Kleinertz – Essays on the Labour Market Effects of Migration
Isabel Staudinger – The Legal Nature of Financial Assistance Conditionality
Sandra Hummelbrunner – The Consistency of European External Action – A Legal-Institutional Perspective
PhD Topics 2014-2017
Anita Heindlmaier – Deep Europeanization? Free movement of persons and cross-border access to social benefits within the European Union
James Wilhelm – Political Parties, European Integration Attitudes and Vote
Dominika Majorowski – The European Stability Mechanism- A crisis resolution mechanism
Francesco Galletti – Varieties of Capitalism and the EMU crisis: assessing the domestic adjustment variation
Markus Tiefenbacher – Umverteilungseffekte von fiskalpolitischen Maßnahmen innerhalb des Euroraumes
Hendrik Jungmann – Company Taxation in Europe: Evidence from Microdata
PhD Topics 2011-2014
Laura Andreea Baroni – Information Counts: Interest Group Success in the European Parliament
Cal le Gall – Explaining Patterns of Politicising Europe in Party- Competition: Salience and Polarisation
Iryna Kristensen – Public-Private Partnership and Regional Innovation Policy Conceptual Considerations and Empirical Application
Jörg Paetzold – Essays on the Economics of Labour Market Policies and Taxation in Europe. Empirical Analyses on Selected Topics
Lucia Schulten – „Einer für alle, oder alle für den Markt“. Die rechtliche Dimension von „Solidarität“ im Unionsrecht.
Erwin Stolz – Social inequality in formal long-term care utilisation in old age: A comparative analysis of 15 European countries
