Dr. Elisabeth Donat is a research associate and deputy head of the Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy at Danube-University Krems. She previously worked as a research associate at the University of Salzburg, Innsbruck and Vienna in their respective institutes of sociology. She has conducted extensive trainings in methodology (qualitative and quantitative) that complete her portfolio. She has passed on her knowledge in more than 50 courses at the aforementioned universities and other colleges. As a research associate within the REGIOPARL project, she is responsible for the conception and execution of surveys with deputies of regional parliaments as well as the evaluation of their responses.