Teaching experience

During my PhD at the School of Politics and International Relations (UCD), I accumulated extensive teaching experience lecturing and assistant teaching for undergraduate level modules.

As a teaching assistant, I prepared and held 50-minute long tutorial sessions for groups of 15-20 students (including the preparation of teaching material and design of group exercises), graded midterm essays and final exams and held regular office hours.

In the last year of my PhD, I also prepared and taught a course on EU Foreign Policy for a third- to fourth-year undergraduate students.

Lecturing

EU Foreign Policy: understanding how the European Union and its member states engage with the world (Fall 2022). This is a third- fourth-year undergraduate course (40 students) offered by UCD’s School of Politics and International Relations. I autonomously prepared the syllabus, designed lecture/seminar activities, and graded the assessments. You can find a copy of the syllabus below.

Tutoring

Theories and Concepts in International Relations (Fall 2022, 2021, 2020): second year undergraduate course (four to five tutorial groups of 15-20 students each). Module coordinator: Dr Tobias Theiler.

Comparative Politics (Spring 2022, 2021 and 2020): second year undergraduate course (four to five tutorial groups of 15-20 students each). Module coordinator: Dr Martijn Schoonvelde and Dr Dawn Walsh.

Foundations of Political Theory and International Relations (Fall 2019): first year undergraduate course (four tutorial groups of 15-20 students each). Module coordinator: Dr Tobias Theiler.

Supervision

I am/have been the primary supervisor of MA theses at the VUB and Jagiellonian University.

Other teaching experience/guest lecturing

During and since my PhD, I have guest lectured in several summer schools. In June 2024, I held a lecture on the EU’s strategic ambitions, as part of the University of Southern California’s summer school, hosted at the VUB. In April 2021, I held a lecture on European Strategic Autonomy at the Online Spring School organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University.

While at UCD’s School of Politics, I guest lectured in MA-level courses in research design to speak about qualitative research methods and elite interviews (POL42330 – Research Design; Fall 2021, Fall 2022). In May 2019, I participated in a NORTIA masterclass on data gathering and elite interviews, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.