About Me

I am a Danish PhD student researching how higher education impacts democratic outcomes. I am supervised by Prof. Herman van de Werfhorst and Prof. Simon Hix at the European University Institute.

Martin Dybdahl

Political Sociologist - The European University Institute

Email: Martin.Dybdahl@eui.eu

Ongoing Projects

  • UCI MUST Project Resources and socialization: the effect of course exposure on undergraduate students' political orientations and civic engagement, University of California, Irvine

Publications

  • Governance reforms and public acceptance of regulatory decisions: Cross-national evidence from linked survey experiments on pesticides authorization in the European Union Regulation & Governance, 2023. J. Zeitlin, D. v.d. Duin, T. Kuhn, M. Weimer & M. Dybdahl Jensen
  • Final report on the Governance of Exit AdMiGov, 2022. B. Kalir & M. Dybdahl
  • EU pesticides regulation: how public support can be rebuilt LSE EUROPP Blog, 2021

Work Experience

  • Team Leader, Danish Country Experts, EU&I Voting Advice Application (Florence, Italy) - Led a team coding party positions, collaborated with EP candidates and political parties as part of building a VAA that in 2019 engaged 1.20 million voters across the EU. Website launched May 9th 2024.
  • Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - I worked for the Amsterdam Center for Learning Analytics (ACLA) as an independent researcher, equivalent to a PhD, specializing in learning analytics and machine learning to address teacher attrition in the Netherlands.
  • Research Assistant, under Prof. Theresa Kuhn, as part of the COVIDEU project at the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Managed data collection, cleaning, and administrative tasks with PhD candidate Lisa Herbig.
  • Research Assistant, under Prof. Jonathan Zeitlin at the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Authored statistical analyses for peer-reviewed research on environmental policy. Peer-reviewed Publication
  • Internship, under Dr. Barak Kalir as part of the cross-national AdMiGov project, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - I co-authored the research paper with Dr. Kalir, the paper evaluates the current state of EU exit regimes. The analysis was based on qualitative and quantitative data sources. WORK PACKAGE REPORT

Past projects

  • EU&I A comprehensive VAA for the EP2024- Helping people navigate the EU elections ecosystem.