Activities
Every year since 2023, I am co-chairing a cross-doctoral workshop with my colleagues from the Institute of Public Management and Territorial Governance (IMPGT, Aix-Marseille University) and the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP, University of Lausanne). The workshop aims to provide support to doctoral students in the early phases of their PhD thesis. The last meetings took place in Aix-Marseille in 2023, Lausanne in 2024, and Brussels in 2025. The presentations of the doctoral students focus on public management, administration, and policy. If you are interested in participating in this event, please send me an email (vincent.mabillard@ulb.be).
Ongoing theses
I am currently involved in the jury of one PhD dissertation.
Bohdan Trembovelskyi (2022 – ). Impact of social media fakes on news perceived trust: An Eastern Europe cross-country analysis. University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
I am also supervising the work of invited students. From September 2024 till February 2025, I welcomed Selma Ouni from Sfax University (Tunisia) at ULB. Her PhD thesis is entitled "Government business support and individual constraints. The case of Tunisian women university graduates". Completion expected by the end of 2025.
Past theses
I was the co-promotor of Laura Molinari's PhD thesis, successfully defended in September 2023. Laura received the "100 years of RESA" special award for her thesis entitled "Essays on Infrastructure Asset Management".
I was a jury member of Enrico Ubiali's PhD thesis, successfully defended in 2022. Title of the PhD dissertation: "The evolution of governmental europeanization in two selected countries: a comparative analysis of Italy and Switzerland in the last 30 years after the Maastricht Treaty (1992)".