CARR Research students

Barroso, Mr Luis - Research Student
Research interests: the nature of the new administrative state of the European Union, the operation of European agencies and the challenges which this creates in terms of controls on this power.
Law Department
Contact details: email: l.a.barroso@lse.ac.uk|  

Beinisch, Ms Natalie - Research Student
Research interests: transnational regulation, private governance, risk regulation, domain interests: manufacturing (toys) and agriculture (chocolate and agricultural standards).
Thesis: Explaining variation in transnational risk regulation regimes.
Government and Sociology Departments
Contact details: email: n.m.beinisch@lse.ac.uk|

Braunstein, Mr Juergen - Research Student
Research interests: Sovereign Wealth Management, Political Economy of Corporate Governance.
Thesis: The Dynamics of State-Business Relations in Small Open Economies.
Government Department
Contact details: email: j.braunstein2@lse.ac.uk|

Chu, Ms May - Research Student
Thesis: Variations in regulatory regimes: A case study of food safety regulation in three food sectors across three Chinese provinces.
Government Department.
Contact details: email: m.chu@lse.ac.uk| 

Fernando, Renuka - Research Student
Research interests: Construction of third sector entities via accounting
Determination of charitable activities and assigned values
Third sector performance measurement techniques for charitable works
Translation of the accountability concept into the third sector and resulting internal/external reporting systems.
Accounting Department Profile
|Contact details: email: r.fernando@lse.ac.uk|

Heims, Ms Eva
- Research Student
Research interests: Risk Regulation Regimes of the European Union
Thesis: 'The Public Management of Risk in the European Union - A Comparative Study Across Four Risk Domains'.
Government Department
Contact details: email: e.m.heims@lse.ac.uk|

Iordachescu, Ms Irina - Research Student
Research Interests: public policy, European competition law, regulation of digital networks, regulation of smart technologies.
Thesis: Riding the Wave of Change: The Politics of Radio Spectrum Management
Government Department
Contact details: email: i.c.iordachescu@lse.ac.uk|

Lim, Mr Miguel - Research Student
Research interests: Accounting as a technology of government, demographic risk management and ageing populations, political economy of pensions; pension reform associated risks.
Accounting Department Profile|
Contact details: email: m.a.lim@lse.ac.uk|  

Pflueger, Mr Dane - Research Student
Research interests: Quality; quality regulation; sustainability accounting, reporting, and management; health care and the public sector.
Thesis: The meaning, measurement and management of quality in health care.
Accounting Department Profile
|Contact details: email: d.p.pflueger@lse.ac.uk|

Sampson, Mr Christopher - Research Student
Research interests: aspects of state capacity in shaping and regulating important industries that differ in their degree of liberalization and fragmentation, government-enterprise links in China's state sector.
Thesis: State-led Development vs. Development-led State: The Dynamics of Government-Enterprise Relations in China's Pillar Industries.
Government Department
Contact details: email: c.u.sampson@lse.ac.uk|

Schleifer, Mr Philip - Research Student
Research interests: Regulation of biofuels, renewable energy, private sustainability governance, social and environmental standards, corporate social responsibility (CSR), certification systems.
Thesis: Governance Arrangements in Non-State Standard-Setting Organizations (Sustainable Biofuel Initiatives).
International Relations Department
Contact details: email: p.schleifer@lse.ac.uk|

Wollf, Mr Johannes M - Research Student
Research interests: public policy, specifically work on impact assessment systems, regulatory budgets and regulatory reform more generally.
Thesis: Procedural controls over bureaucracy: the case of Impact Assessments
Government Department
Contact details: email: j.m.wollf@lse.ac.uk|

Zhivitskaya, Ms Maria - Research Student
Research interests: Accounting for reputational risk, IT and Media, Knowledge-based firms.
Accounting Department Profile
|Contact details: email: m.zhivitskaya@lse.ac.uk|