Roskilde University is located on the island of Sealand in Denmark, about 30 miniutes by train from Copenhagen. The Institute for Social Science and Business has four main research and teaching programmes focusing international and European studies, public administration, sociology ,and business. The international team focuses on international political economy, development studies, security studies, global sociology and EU studies. The Globalization and Europeanization Research Group is the focal point of research on Europe, and includes researchers specialized EU common foreign and security policy, supranational law, migration studies, policy making in the EU, Europeanization, Euroscepticism and populism.
Team members
Angela Bourne
Dr. Angela Bourne is Professor (with special responsibilties) in European Politics. She holds a PhD from the University of Bristol and worked at the Universities of Aberystwyth and Dundee before coming to the University of Roskilde. Her current research focus is on opposition to populist parties in multilevel Europe, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation's ‘Challenges for Europe’ programme. Other research interests include multilevel governance in Europe, Europeanization of social movements, minority nationalist politics in Spain, and responses to terrorism. She has also published articles on these topics inEuropean Journal of Political Research, Journal of Common Market Studies, Democratization, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Terrorism and Political Violence, Comparative European Politics, European Constitutional Law Review and Journal of Civil Society.
Francesco Campo
Francesco Campo, MA, is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. His education include a bachelor’s degree in International Sciences, Development and Cooperation at the University of Turin (Italy) and a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies at Aarhus University (Denmark). His interests involve discourse analysis, contentious politics and populist studies, focusing particularly on opposition to populism in Europe. His PhD dissertation analyzes initiatives opposing populist parties in Italy and Spain in 2013-2021. He has published an article on “Differentiated opposition in collective mobilization: countering Italian populism” in Comparative European Politics (2023) and contributed chapters on opposition to populism in Spain and in Italy in a forthcoming edited book by Angela Bourne on Democratic Defence as ‘Normal Politics’- Everyday Opposition to Populist Parties in Multilevel Europe.
Mathias Holst Nicolaisen
Mathias Holst Nicolaisen is a PhD candidate at Roskilde University. He holds a MA in Sociology from University of Copenhagen. Mathias’ research focus on populism and democratic defense in Europe, in particular Denmark and Sweden. Mathias’ research interests include comparative politics, populism, party politics, and democratic defense. His most recent publication, ‘From toleration to recognition: explaining change and stability in party responses to the Danish People’s Party’, was published in a special issue in Comparative European Politics last year. He has moreover published in Aggressive Behavior.