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Senior Lecturer Jelle is a communication science lecturer with a fascination for political communication and journalism. Special interests are sports communication and corporate social advocacy. Apart from lecturing, Jelle coaches fellow colleagues and is assessor of the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ/BKO). In 2025, Jelle was nominated for the TLC Research Fellowship Program (2025-27), through which…

Senior Lecturer Penny Sheets Thibaut (PhD, University of Washington) is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. Her teaching and research focus on political communication, news, and public opinion, with a particular interest in the role national identity plays in the construction and flow of news, as well…