Elena Cossu
Postdoctoral Researcher - AUTHLIB project
Elena is a senior policy evaluation researcher and a PhD candidate in quantitative political economy. She previously worked on understanding the rise of populism in Central and Eastern Europe with the European Commission MSCA FATIGUE project, and now she works as a senior researcher for the Policy Research Centre of the National Centre for Social Research (UK). In my current job, she focuses on quasi-experiments and experiments to measure the effect of policies in the UK context. She also works for the European Commission AUTHLIB project.
Previous positions
Senior Policy Evaluation Researcher - Policy Research Centre, National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), London
Early Stage Researcher - FATIGUE Project, European Commission MSCA , Budapest and London
Education
Awards
ACRI Young Investigator Training Program (YITP – ECOMOD 2021), Università Milano Bicocca, Center for European Studies (CefES-DEMS)
Publications
- Elena Cossu; Clustering and Analysing Relevant Policy Dimensions of Populist, Left-Wing, Centrist, and Right-Wing Parties across Europe; Central European Journal of Public Policy (CEJPP) (Forthcoming); June 2023
- Elena Cossu; Understanding Contemporary Populism Through the Latin American Experience; 1. Vol. 20 No. 3 (2021): AARMS – Academic and Applied Research in Military and Public Management Science; May 2022
- Elena Cossu & Giovanna Maria Borges Aguiar; Traditions, Institutions, and Growth: the Case of Hungary; Online Volume of the International Relations Doctoral School (Corvinus University of Budapest); May 202 0
- Elena Cossu & Giovanna Maria Borges Aguiar ; The Gravity Model for Trade Theory; Köz-Gazdaság (Review of Economic Theory and Practice); September 2019
- Australian Institute of International Affairs; A Small Country Trying To Go Big, A Big Union Trying Not To Go Small; April 2022
- ECPR the Loop ; March 2021
- Book Review: The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century by Rodrigo Aguilera; LSE Review of Books; Elena Cossu; October 2020
