Teaching

Modified

May 2026

I teach quantitative methods and political behaviour at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Surrey, and have led courses in research methods at ECPR summer schools and other European universities.

University of Surrey

  • POLM011 Research in Practice Spring
  • POL2028 Research Methods Spring
  • POL2045 Econometrics Winter
  • POL2046 Electoral Systems and Voting Spring

Previous teaching

Cologne Business School

  • Empirical Social Research, Winter 2016

University of Konstanz

  • Radical Right Parties in Europe, Winter 2014
  • Political Representation in Western Europe, Spring 2014

Methods workshops and short courses

ECPR — Age-Period-Cohort Models

22 February – 1 March 2019, Bamberg. Designed to give participants a deep knowledge of Age-Period-Cohort (APC) models — the methods used to disentangle whether time-varying changes in social and political phenomena reflect biological and social ageing (age effects), period-specific shocks such as economic crisis (period effects), or the unique experiences of generations such as those socialised under authoritarianism (cohort effects). The course covered the so-called identification problem, the principal methods developed to address it, their limitations, and how to choose between them.

ECPR — Survey Design

2–9 March 2018, Bamberg. An introduction to the theory and practicalities of survey design, structured around the Total Survey Error framework: sampling, mode selection, question and questionnaire design, fieldwork implementation, non-response, and data archiving.

Introduction to R

30 May – 3 June 2016, Centre for Political Research, Panteion University of Athens. Five-day intensive introduction covering R objects, data frames, packages, and functions; RStudio installation and use; reading, saving, and exporting data; basic statistics; graphics with base R, ggplot2, and interaction-effect plots; regression analysis and diagnostics.

Summer school — Vienna

Alternative Economic and Monetary Systems, July–August 2017. Module III: Reforming the financial and monetary system. Including a public lecture, From theory to practice: Greece and Iceland — the political and economic situation of both countries.