RESEARCH PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

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• ELITPOLAR (2025-2027)

The goal of the ELITPOLAR project (PID2023-151795NB-I00) is to explain the causes of the affective divide that has emerged in Spanish society, by analyzing various factors such as the impact of the economic crisis, the increase in inequalities, cultural and identity conflicts, as well as the ideological radicalization of political elites and their use of aggressive rhetoric and polarizing discourse. Budget: 100.000€ [Role: research team at UNED] + info

• ActEU (2023-2026)

The ActEU project (HORIZON-101094190) studies the decline in trust and political legitimacy in Europe, focusing on the interactions between citizens' political attitudes, their political participation, and the representation of their political preferences. Budget: 3.044.120€ [Role: postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po and CSIC]  + info

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

• REPCHANCE (2022-2024)

“REPCHANCE – Spain and the United Kingdom” (Robert Bosch Foundation) aims at providing a better and deeper understanding of the processes that place barriers to the inclusion of migrants and their descendants in social and political positions of leadership, as well as which initiatives may contribute to overcoming such barriers, hence fostering more inclusive societies. [Role: research assistant at Sciences Po] + info

• MOBILEU (2021-2023)

MOBILEU is an EU-funded project (Grant number: 963348) investigating the voting rights of non-resident and non-national groups of mobile EU citizens. Franchise entitlements for emigrants and immigrants vary both within and across EU Member States. The core objective of this project is to seek to document and evaluate these variations and political inequalities by focusing on the rights and participation of both emigrant and immigrant groups in local, European Parliament, and national elections, respectively. Budget: 592.774€ [Role: research assistant at the University of Liège] + info

• CONSENSO (2020-2023)

The CONSENSO project (PID2019-108667GB-I00) analyzes whether governance in Spanish society from the legislative branch tends toward conflict or consensus. The aim is to determine what prevails more in Spain’s 19 representative chambers: conflict or cooperation. The approach is comparative, both historically and territorially. Budget: 68.123€ [Role: research assistant at UNED] + info

• APREPINM (2016-2019)

The project 'Ayuntamientos Plurales' (Plural Councils), funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CSO‐2016–79540‐R)) and coordinated by the Autonomous University of Madrid, aims primarily to measure and explain the levels of descriptive political representation in Spain’s municipalities. Budget: 48.000€ [Role: predoctoral researcher at UAM] + info