Biography

Audrey is a senior researcher at the Department of Political Science of Ghent University. Her research interests cover party politics, intra-party democracy, electoral systems, women-in-politics, federalism and political discourse. Audrey holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the UCLouvain and a Master’s degree in Public Management from Ghent University. Her doctoral work (2016, UCLouvain) handled a comparative qualitative and quantitative analysis of candidate selection processes in Belgian political parties. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at Lund University in Sweden (2017-2019) and is now BOF postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University (2019-2022).

Research focus

• Elections
• Candidate selection
• Political parties

Courses

• Political science II: capita selecta
• Master's dissertation seminar

Contact

Address: Universiteitstraat 8, 9000 Ghent

Phone:+ 32 9 264 67 04

Email: Audrey.Vandeleene@UGent.be

Twitter: @AudreyVdleene

Publications