I am a Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Economy (DPE) on the education pathway, where I contribute to the DPE educational leadership team. I am also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and serve as an external examiner at the University of Bristol.

Before joining DPE in autumn 2025, I spent six years at King’s Foundations, where I taught global politics to ambitious international students preparing for university study in the UK. Prior to that, I was a Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading (2018-19), where I lectured on a range of political science subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

My research focuses on multilevel party politics in the European Union. My PhD in European Studies, awarded by the Department of European Studies at King’s College London in 2019, examined the links between national parties and their counterparts in the European Parliament.

Currently, I am particularly interested in how party actors at the fringes of the ideological spectrum use the European Parliament arena to pursue goals in the domestic political context. This is reflected in my recent publications on Brothers of Italy and the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament.

In addition to political science research, I have a strong interest in higher education pedagogy, both broadly and within the teaching of Political Science. In 2023-24, I served as academic lead on a project funded by the KCL College Teaching Fund on generative AI and essay writing. I am also passionate about staff-student co-creation and, in 2024, I received the CIEL Faculty Innovation in Teaching Award for my lecture co-creation project.

Office hours

Students can book a feedback and guidance session with me here.

Research interests

• European Parliament
• Far-right
• Italian politics
• Multilevel politics in the EU
• Teaching politics

Teaching

• Introduction to Comparative Politics (UG Year 1)
• Internship (MA)

Latest publications

Political science

• 2025 (forthcoming book chapter). Italy: allies or competitors? Far-right parties between Rome and Brussels, with Edoardo Bressanelli. In: S. Vassallo, Far-Right in EU Coalition Politics, il Mulino: Bologna.
• 2024. The European Conservatives and Reformists Group: Cooperation or Opposition in Europe’s Parliament?, with Edoardo Bressanelli. International Spectator. DOI: 10.1080/03932729.2024.2387215
• 2023. Fratelli d’Italia in the European Parliament: Between Radicalism and Conservatism, with Edoardo Bressanelli. Contemporary Italian Politics. DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2023.2285545
• 2019. Love, convenience, or respectability? Understanding the alliances of the Five Star Movement in the European Parliament, with Edoardo Bressanelli. Italian Political Science Review, 49(1): 25-48. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/ipo.2018.5
• 2019. The roots, the shoots, and the fertiliser: The securitisation of migration in an age of populism, with Cristina Juverdeanu. In: Leila S. Talani and Matilde Rosina, “Tidal waves? The political economy of populism and migration in Europe”, Peter Lang.

Political Science Education and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

• 2025: Redesigning how we redesign the curriculum: cognitive group interviews as a qualitative tool for student-staff co-creation in the age of generative AI, with Duru Karadeniz. Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership & Change. Available at this link.
• 2025: Foundation students as co-creators? A reflection on co-creating lectures on the Global Politics and Liberal Arts modules at King’s Foundations, with Giuseppe Zevolli. InForm: a journal for international foundation programme professionals. Available at this link.
• 2025: Author for the 2025 edition of the FutureLearn Course Generative AI in Higher Education. Title: How are students already using these tools? Available upon enrolment at this link.
• 2025 (forthcoming) | Chapter in textbook: United Kingdom: The Westminster Model, with Jonathan Hopkin. In: Vassallo, S. (2016) Comparing political systems: Democracies and Autocracies. ilMulino
• 2024: Manifesto for the essay in the age of AI. Co-created with LSE and KCL colleagues. Available at this link.
• 2024: Recalibrating educators’ expectations on students and student learning in the era of Generative AI: A self-reflection on the vital role of a dialogue with students. InForm: a journal for international foundation programme professionals, Exchange section, 10, 47-48. Available at this link.