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
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
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
Other members
Researchers from the four research groups.
Former members
Monika Glavina
Toon Jansen
Olivier Sempiga