Charlotte Boucher, PhD student at CEE, welcomed to Oxford University as part of the OxPo PhD exchange programme

The School of Research is pleased to announce that Charlotte Boucher, a PhD student in political science at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), has been selected to participate in the OxPo PhD exchange programme between the University of Oxford and Sciences Po.

She will spend time at Oxford as a visiting academic, where she will continue her research on the links between social policies and political attitudes. Her thesis, entitled ‘Varieties of political alienation: The political effects of European welfare states' transformations’ and supervised by Bruno Palier, focuses on the political consequences of welfare state transformations in Europe. She uses a comparative approach to analyse how these transformations influence forms of political integration. Before embarking on this project, Charlotte Boucher studied the effects of the economic crisis and government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on European citizens' political trust.

The OxPo (Oxford-Sciences Po) PhD exchange programme, established many years ago between the two institutions, aims to promote mobility among doctoral students and stimulate scientific collaboration. It offers participants an exceptional research environment, enabling them to enrich their work and expand their international academic network.

The Oxpo ( Oxford-Sciences Po) PhD exchange programme is supported by the Sciences Po Alumni UK Charity Trust.

Find out more:

• About Charlotte Boucher
• About PhD programmes
• About OxPo
• About international exchange programmes at PhD level
• About the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)