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Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Political Science, Cevipol, Université Laval

Audrey Brennan is an FNRS Research Fellow and Ph.D. candidate completing a joint doctorate in the departments of political science at Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and Université Laval (Quebec City). Her dissertation considers the causes and consequences of changing a leadership selection mechanism. For example, parties may want to recruit more members, have similar processes as their competitors in the political system or emulate parties from the same political family. She has published on the use of e-petitions in the province of Quebec, on blank and null ballots in Wallonia, and on the use of social media by Belgian political parties.

With colleagues she is working on an analysis of the use of social media to discuss issues related to identifying as a woman in academia; an analysis of support and opposition of opposition leaders, health ministers and shadow ministers toward covid measures in Belgium and Canada; and looking at whether there are generational effects for the support or opposition of the recognition of indigenous rights in Canada.

Experience

  • –present
    FNRS Research Fellow & PhD candidate , Université Laval
  • –present
    FNRS Research Fellow & PhD candidate , Université libre de Bruxelles

Education

  • 2018 
    Université Laval, M.A. political science
  • 2015 
    Concordia University, B.A. political science

Publications

  • 2021
    Recension: Frédéric Boily, Droitisation et populisme: Canada, Québec, États-Unis, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, Bulletin d'Histoire politique
  • 2021
    Chapter 3: Les partis politiques belges et l'utilisation des réseaux sociaux, Les partis politiques en Belgique
  • 2020
    Pétitions électroniques au Québec : entre transfert et résistance, Participation
  • 2019
    Opening the Opaque Black Box, Politics of the Low Countries

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    FNRS Research Fellowship
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
  • 2018
    Mini-Arc seed money
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    Université libre de Bruxelles