Steering Committee Election Results

Steering Committee Election Results

Following the open call for candidates for the first Steering Committee of the network, we are happy to announce that four members of the Research Network nominated themselves: Loes Aaldering (University of Vienna), Iain McMenamin (Dublin City University), Jonas Lefevere (Vesalius College / Free University of Brussels) and Katjana Gattermann (University of Amsterdam).

The constitution indicates that if only four members nominate themselves, and at least three members are part of ECPR member institutions, they are declared elected. As such, we are proud to announce the members of the first ‘full’ steering committee, which will serve a term of three years.

Katjana Gattermann, University of Amsterdam (Convenor)

Katjana Gattermann is Assistant Professor of Political Communication and Journalism at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2012 and has held positions at the University of Cologne, the Amsterdam Centre of Contemporary European Studies and the VU University Amsterdam. Her research interests comprise political communication, journalism, political behaviour, public opinion and legislative behaviour with a regional focus on the European Union. She is currently leading a research project with the title ‘Facing Europe: The personalization of European Union politics in news coverage and its consequences for democracy’, which is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, 2016-2020). Her publications have appeared in journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics and West European Politics. Katjana Gattermann was also founding director of the Erasmus Academic Network on Parliamentary Democracy in Europe (PADEMIA), which brought together 56 research and teaching institutes from all over Europe and was funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission between 2013 and 2016.

Jonas Lefevere, Free University of Brussels (Vice-Convenor)

Jonas Lefevere is assistant professor of Communication at Vesalius College Brussels, which is affiliated with the Free University of Brussels. Prior to joining Vesalius College, he completed his PhD at the Media, Movements and Politics (M²P) research group at the University of Antwerp. His dissertation investigated the priming effects of the 2009 regional campaigns in Belgium. Following his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC advanced grant project InfoPol. He then joined the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) as an assistant professor, after which he switched to Vesalius College, Brussels.

His research focuses on political campaign communication, investigating both the impact of campaign communication on citizens’ decision making and the strategic communication of political elites during campaigns. He has published on these topics in various journals, including Political Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, Communication Research, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Party Politics.

Iain McMenamin, Dublin City University (Secretary)

I am Professor of Comparative Politics in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University (DCU). My research has been published in leading journals such as World Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, the International Journal of Press/Politics, and European Union Politics. I am also the author of If Money Talks, What Does It Say? Corruption and Business Financing of Political Parties (Oxford University Press 2013).  I am currently working with automatic content analysis of newspaper and broadcast data in English, Spanish, and German.  My colleagues and I will soon publish a book on election coverage in Ireland since 1969 with Manchester University Press. I have been Head of School and Research Convenor in the School of Law and Government, DCU.  I studied at University College Dublin, Nuffield College, Oxford and the London School of Economics.

Loes Aaldering, University of Vienna (Treasurer)

Loes Aaldering is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Communication Science department of the University of Vienna. She works in the Political Communications Research group, chaired by prof. dr. Sophie Lecheler. Her main research topics include political leadership and media coverage; gender, politics and media; election campaigns and routine times; electoral behavior; and political representation. She has published on these topics in various journals, including Political Studies, Quality and Quantity, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, International Journal of Press/Politics and British Journal of Political Science.

Loes Aaldering did her PhD at the Political Science department of the University of Amsterdam and her dissertation is called ‘Images with Impact. The Electoral Consequences of Party leader Portrayal in the Media’. In her PhD-project, she studies how political leaders are portrayed in the media in terms of their leadership traits, and when and to what extent do these mediated leadership images have an impact on voters in determining their party preferences. Before Loes started her PhD-project, she finished the Research Master Social Sciences (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam, where she specialized in comparative politics and quantitative methods, the Master Political Theory and Political Behavior at the University of Amsterdam, and the Bachelor of Laws at the University of Amsterdam.

 

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