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Professor Petra Schleiter is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Oxford. She leads the University of Oxford’s initiative to establish the Centre for Democratic Resilience, building on over 15 years of senior research and academic leadership experience. With more than 60 publications, Schleiter is a prominent scholar in the field of democratic institutions and institutional reform, party competition, and policy reform. She regularly serves as an expert witness to policy makers and advised the Irish Citizens Assembly in 2018. Her contributions have been recognised by elections to fellowships by the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin (2024-25), AxPo (Sciences Po, Paris) (2026), and the Constitution Unit of University College London (2015-present) among others.
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• Professor Tarik Abou-Chadi is Professor of European Politics at the University of Oxford. He is leading the initiative for a Societal Resilience Lab within the Centre for Democratic Resilience. Tarik Abou-Chadi is a leading expert on the rise of the far right and the crisis of mainstream parties in Europe. He co-founded the Progressive Politics Research Network - an initiative to make political science research more accessible for political practitioners and the broader public. His work has been recognized with the inaugural Henrik Enderlein Prize for research excellence in the social sciences awarded by the German and French government.
  Publications:
  Measuring and understanding parties' anti-elite strategies (with Hauke Licht, Pablo Barbera, Whitney Hua). Journal of Politics: Forthcoming. Link
• Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support (with Denis Cohen, Thomas Kurer). Comparative Political Studies: Forthcoming. Link 
• Democracy Challenged. How Different Party Families Emphasize Different Democratic Principles (with Sarah Engler, Theresa Gessler, Lucas Leemann). Journal of European Public Policy: 30(10): 1961-1983. Link
• Does Accommodation Work? Mainstream Party Strategies and the Success of Radical Right Parties (with Werner Krause, Denis Cohen). Political Science Research and Methods: 11(1): 172-179. Link
• The Centre-Right versus the Radical Right: the Role of Migration Issues and Economic Grievances (with Denis Cohen, Markus Wagner).  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: 42(2): 366-384. Link
• Economic Risk within the Household and Voting for the Radical Right (with Thomas Kurer). World Politics: 73 (3): 482-511. Link
• The Causal Effect of Radical Right Success on Mainstream Parties' Policy Positions - a Regression Discontinuity Approach (with Werner Krause). British Journal of Political Science: 50 (3): 829-847. Link
• Progressive Politics Research Network: A collaborative effort to make research more accessible to journalists, political practitioners and the wider public. Within PPRNet we have so far published 10 research briefs summarizing cutting-edge research on pressing political topics. https://politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/go/pprn
• Podcast series Transformation of European Politics (host and producer). https://open.spotify.com/show/6C1PM71PmBmWKCHKvwCKpA
• Next Left lecture. Foundation for European Progressive Studies. At the European Parliament. Video Link
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Professor Katerina Tertytchnaya, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics. [BIO TO FOLLOW]

Dr Edward Brooks, Director of the Programme for Global Leadership and Programme for Global Leadership | DPIR [BIO TO FOLLOW]

Ms. Nathalie Fontana, Director of Development – Europe, University of Oxford Development Office, Oxford in Berlin. 
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