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Dr Judith Spirig
- Biography
Judith Spirig is a Lecturer in Political Science at University College London. Previously, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich, where she also obtained her PhD in 2018. During her PhD, she was a visiting research student at the London School of Economics’s Government Department and Stanford University’s Department of Political Science. She has a BA in philosophy and business and economics from the University of Basel and an MSc in international development and humanitarian emergencies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Research
In her research, Judith seeks to find answers to questions about the determinants and consequences of exclusionary attitudes (in particular immigration attitudes) and judicial behaviour by leveraging in-depth case knowledge and quasi-experimental research designs. To do so, she collects novel data, employs both qualitative and quantitative methods and increasingly draws on historical records. A list of past and ongoing projects can be found here.
- Publications
- Managing Refugee Protection Crises: Policy Lessons from Economics and Political Science (co-authored with Dominik Hangartner, Matti Sarvimäki)
- When Issue Salience Affects Adjudication: Evidence from Swiss Asylum Appeal Decisions. American Journal of Political Science
- Teaching
