Our visiting PhD student Kim Andersen received the award (and a beautiful bouquet of flowers) for the best MA thesis from the Danish Survey Association. Tillykke Kim!! In addition, Mark Boukes’ PhD dissertation is a finalist for the best dissertation of the year, an award handed out by the NL-BEL Political Science association. We duimen Mark!
Last week Joost van Spanje presented several (co-authored) papers at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual National Conference in Chicago and the Council for European Studies Conference in Philadelphia. Earlier in April, Claes de Vreese gave interviews to TV2 Newsnight (DK), Euobserver, Radio 24/7, DR P1, and AFP (FR) on the Dutch EU referendum.
The Network of European Political Communication Scholars (NEPOCS) has just published a 16-country analysis of political news in an edited volume book at Routledge. The editors are Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser, and David Nicolas Hopmann. More information can be found here.
CPC-related researcher and ASCoR member Magdalena Wojcieszak has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the International Communication Association’s Young Scholar Award. The award ceremony will take place at the ICA Annual Conference in Fukuoka in June 2016. Congratulations, Magdalena!
On the topic of today’s Ukraine referendum, Claes de Vreese featured in Nieuwsuur at NOS.nl (31.3.16), and gave interviews to ARD (Ger), DRP1 (DK), and Altinget (DK). In addition, on Tuesday evening Wouter de Nooy and Claes organised a Spui25 event on the use of referenda in the EU: www.spui25.nl Also this week, Linda, Michael and Claes will be in Kracow…