Adrian Favero

- Name
- Adrian Favero
- Address
- Edinburgh UK
- A.Favero@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Europeanization, European Union, Identity formation, Globalizationsation and personal life, urban sociology, identity politics, Central Eastern Europe
- URL
- http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/people/phd_students/adrian_favero
PhD Research
My interest focuses on Polish cities and the urban citizens’ attitudes towards the European Union (EU). Specifically, I want to investigate the differential role of Polish cities in shaping the attitudes of the young, well-educated population towards the EU. For this purpose, I want to compare five large Polish cities: Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Wroclaw and Gdansk.
This research seeks to determine the extent to which political, economic, and cultural opportunities in cities influence the perception of EU integration. This, in turn, is then used to account for and explain citizens’ attitudes towards the EU. My work focuses on students living in five cities in order to determine the influence that urban spaces and settings have on shaping EU perceptions and opinions. In addition, this research also seeks to evaluate how the combined urban and EU setting shapes individuals’ behaviour, specifically as it pertains to their future prospects.
In order to unpack and explain these issues, I divide this study into quantitative and qualitative parts, while applying a sequential mixed methods approach.
Supervisors
Professor Laura Cram, University of Edinburgh
Professor Andrew Thompson, University of Edinburgh
Qualifications
MA European Studies, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland, 2014
BA Political Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2012
BA Primary Education, Teachers College, Rorschach, Switzerland, 2003
Publications
Favero A. and Goodman C. (2014): Kongruenz und politische Partizipation in Metropolregionen. Working Paper No 77. National Centre of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century. (http://www.nccr-democracy.uzh.ch/publications/workingpaper/pdf/wp_77.pdf-1 [Status 2014]).
Teaching Experience
University of Edinburgh, HSS International Foundation Programme
Introduction to Internatonal Relations (Summer 2015)
Conferences
Member of Organisation Committee, Challenging Eastern Limits Confernce 2013, Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Memberships
Edinburgh Europa Research Group
International Political Science Association