Welcome to my website! I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at University College London, convenor of the UCL SPP Migration Cluster, faculty affiliate of the Immigration Policy Lab’s Zurich branch and external lecturer at University of Zurich.

In my research, I am broadly interested in the determinants and implications of exclusionary attitudes and behaviours. What shapes support for inclusive (e.g., gender equality) and exclusionary (e.g., anti-Semitic, anti-immigration) policies? How do newspapers influence votes about immigration policy? Does the identity of a judge matter for the decisions that they make? What effect does the salience of asylum issues have on asylum judges’ decisions? In articles published in the American Journal of Political Science and the British Journal of Political Science, I show that asylum appeals are less likely to be granted in times of higher asylum salience in Switzerland and that not all judges are equally likely to grant similar asylum appeals. In other articles I explore (the lack of) ramifications of the political takeover of a regional newspaper, review some of the literature on immigration, immigration salience and political behaviour, reflect on the lessons we can learn from the 2015 refugee protection crisis in Europe, and study determinants of gender inequality in domestic labour. In a new ESRC-funded project, I study the politics of collective memory.

At UCL, I am currently teaching a UG module on Quantitative Data Analysis. In the past, I have also taught courses on Forced Migration and Its (Political) Consequences as well as Globalisation and Populism.