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Susanne Szkola started reading for her PhD in International Relations in September 2015. Her doctoral research focuses on processes of othering, ontological security seeking and securitization in the framework of the construction of security identities in the countries of the South Caucasus vis-à-vis the EU and Russia. She pays close attention to cognitive, affective-emotional and utilitarian resources of motivation in the constitution of these processes. Her research is supervised by Dr. Tom Casier and Prof. Dr. Elena Korosteleva.
Her broader research interests include IR theory, Critical Security and Conflict Studies, Critical Geopolitics, Political and Social Psychology, Foreign Policy Analysis (EU/Eastern Europe and Central Asia/Russia) and the European Union (especially CSDP/ENP/Enlargement). She is also very interested in interdisciplinary research.
Before beginning her PhD studies at the Brussels School of International Studies, Susanne obtained her MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of Europe, Warsaw, in 2014. The year before, she received her BA in Political Science, Economics, Law and Eastern European Studies at the University of Heidelberg.
Susanne has worked as a consultant for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Berlin) within the Central and Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia Department and with Fraunhofer on knowledge transfer and science communications.
She has been a teaching assistant for Fundamentals of Dissertation and Research (FDR) and is currently a teaching assistant for Foreign Policy Analysis.