Academic members of the GOVTRUST excellence consortium

Coordinators

Koen Verhoest (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: public administration & management, organization and governance of public tasks, autonomy and control of agencies, regulation of liberalized markets public private partnerships coordination of wicked issues

Esther van Zimmeren (research group Government & Law)
Expertise: intellectual property law, innovation policy, technology transfer, contract law, European institutional and economic law, international trade law, interdisciplinary research

Research Manager

Sophie Op de Beeck (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: public administration & management; trust in multi-level governance; research funding strategies; public personnel administration; HRM implementation; employee attendance issues

Co-promotors

Patricia Popelier (research group Government & Law)
Expertise: federalism, the field of multilevel governance, constitutional review, legitimacy, and legal certainty

Peter Bursens (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: Europeanization, multilevel governance, territorial politics, legitimacy of multilevel political systems

Michel Walrave (research group Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations in Society)
Expertise: individuals’ self-disclosure in interpersonal online communication, privacy, reasons for entrusting personal information to organizations, consumer responses to personalized interactive communication

Carolyn Declerck (Antwerp Center for Evolutionary Demography)
Expertise: neuro-economics, behavioral economics, neuro-imaging, hormone administration studies


Core academic members

  • Professors

Jan Boon (Hasselt University)
Expertise: bureaucratic reputation; mediatization of bureaucracy; public sector communication

Hans Bruyninckx (research group Politics & Public Governance; former Executive Director of the European Environment Agency)
Expertise: environmental governance, international relations, international environmental policy

Charlotte De Backer (research group Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations in Society)
Expertise: social food studies, social talk, celebrities, dating behaviour, interpersonal relations

Dirk De Bièvre (research group International Politics, affiliated to Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: trade policy, interest groups, the World Trade Organization (WTO) 

Stéphanie De Somer (research group Government & Law)
Expertise: administrative law, more specifically planning and environmental law, aesthetic regulation

Inger De Wilde (research group Politics & Public Governance; Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.)
Expertise: public administration, contractual and statutory employment, management and law, labour law and HRM, personnel management, industrial relations

Marijn Hoijtink (research group International Politics, affiliated to Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: digitalisation; security; military technology; militarism; the changing character of warfare

Ria Janvier (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: public administration & management, working conditions, public sector, labor unions, HR management, psychological contract, diversity management, workforce, administrative law

Dominika Latusek-Jurczak (affiliated to research group Politics & Public Governance, UAntwerpen; main affiliation to Kozminski University, Poland)
Expertise: management practices in interorganisational relations, the theory of social networks, trust and distrust

Petra Meier (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: political representation, equality policies, gender issues, social groups, the reproduction of inequality, discursive approaches to the study of normativity in policies, ethnofederations

Karolien Poels (research group Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations in Society)
Expertise: advertising, advertising processing, personalisation, native advertising, advertising effects, online privacy

Frédérique Six (affiliated to research group Politics & Public Governance, UAntwerpen; main affiliation to VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Expertise: public governance, trust and control, wicked problems, collaborative relationships

Heidi Vandebosch (research group Media, ICT and interpersonal relations in Organisations in Society)
Expertise: cyberbullying, (new) media audiences and effects, health communication, serious games, entertainment-education

Catherine Van De Heyning (research group Government and Law)
Expertise: protection of fundamental rights, protection of procedural rights in the interaction between the domestic and European courts, cybercrime

Wouter Van Dooren (research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: public administration & management, performance; performance management, performance measurement, collaboration complexity, accountability

Jan Wynen (Department of Management; research group Politics & Public Governance)
Expertise: organizational change, public sector reform, organizational adaptation


  • Postdoctoral researchers

Elena Escalante Block (affiliated member - ARENA, University of Oslo)
Expertise: politicisation of EU trade agreement negotiations

Chesney Callens 
Expertise: collaborative innovation; networks and partnerships; ICT-enabled service delivery

Andreas Corcaci 
Expertise: Multilevel (Judicial) Governance, Policy Implementation, Environmental, Energy, and Climate Policy, Concept Structures and Set Theoretic Multi-Method Research (SMMR)

Dr. Serena D'Agostino
Expertise: Anti-(Roma) Racism, Civil Society, Europe, Europeanization, (In)equality & Non-discrimination, Intersectionality, Intersectional Activisms, Minority Politics, Queer Politics & Theory, Romani Politics & Roma Rights, Social Movements.

Susana Duarte Coroado 
Expertise: corruption, regulation, regulatory entities, lobbying, ethics

Lise Frehen
Expertise: legitimacy and legitimation, European policy preparation, regulation, evidence-based policy-making, stakeholder inclusion

Rik Joosen 
Expertise: bureaucratic authority, stakeholder engagement, lobby groups, bureaucracy, regulation, EU policy

Bjorn Kleizen 
Expertise: public management, organizational psychology, EU law

Rinat Merkovich
Expertise: Behavioral Public Policy; Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Ethics; Voluntary Compliance 

Christoph Niessen 
Expertise: comparative politics, multi-level governance, democratic innovations, deliberative citizen participation, sub-state autonomy

Dominika Proszowska 
Expertise: multi-level governance, (political) trust, vaccine hesitancy

Bernardo Rangoni 
Expertise: regulatory governance, public policy, political economy, trust, nature of regulation, financial regulation

Bastiaan Redert 
Expertise: interest groups, European policymaking, (regulatory) agencies, legitimacy of stakeholder involvement


  • Doctoral and junior researchers

Lucas Brants (affiliated member - Hasselt University)

Lisa De Roeck

Simon Demuynck

Jakob Frateur

Belén Garcia-Guisasola

Aurélie Gilen 

Erasmus Häggblom 

Nathan Herrebosch 

Cato Janssen 

Danika Pieters 

Massimo Privitera 

Chiara Russo 

Amber van Heerebeek 

Rylan Verlooy 

Cassandra Willems 


Other members

Researchers from the four research groups.


Former members

Monika Glavina

Toon Jansen

Olivier Sempiga