Early Career & Mentorship

ECREA’s Political Communication Section has advertised the third round of its mentoring program for young scholars in political communication research. The program aims to promote young scholars in the field and increase the integration of young and senior scholars in the Political Communication Section. After the success of the first two rounds with 12 young scholars from 7 countries and 12 mentors from 8 countries (2018-20), and 11 young scholars from 7 countries and 12 mentors from 8 countries (2021-23), the third round started in winter 2023. Ten new mentees from 8 countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Nigeria, Switzerland, and The Netherlands) were selected. They were matched with one of the 10 mentors from Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Norway, The Netherlands, and UK.

You can find the Call for Applications on our Calls site.

Third round of the mentorship program
2024-2025

Mentees 2024-2025

(Anna) Lina ButtegereitUniversity of Amsterdam
Aleksandra ZającAUS American Institute of Applied Sciences in Switzerland
Christian SchwadererUniversity of Innsbruck
Dorottya LovászEötvös Loránd University
Henri MütscheleHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Janet Aver AdikpoAmerican University of Nigeria
Kait BolongaroVrije Universiteit Brussel
Karolína BielikováMasaryk University
Pamina Syed AliUniversity of Zurich
Soyeon Jin Technical University of Munich
List of Mentees

Mentors 2024-2025

Gabriella SzaboCentre for Social Sciences Budapest
Imke HenkelBirbeck, University of London
Michael HameleersUniversity of Amsterdam
Vaclav StetkaLoughborough University
Andreas SchuckUniversity of Amsterdam
Mariken A.C.G. van der VeldenUniversity of Amsterdam
Melanie MaginNTNU Trondheim
Jakob Ohme Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
Barbara Pfetsch Freie Universität Berlin
Laura JacobsUniversity of Antwerp

Second round of the mentorship program
2021-2023

Kick-off meeting of the 2nd mentorship program round in February 2022

Mentees

Adaba Koffi Amessou University of Lomé (Togo) 
Alice Beazer Technical University of Munich 
Yunis Mir University of Warsaw 
Cristina Monzer Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU 
Sean K. PalickiTechnical University of Munich 
Rubén Rivas-de-Roca University of Seville 
Hedvig Tønnesen Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU 
Andrea Vik Norwegian University of Science and Technology 
Cato Waeterloos Ghent University
Daria Zadrożniak Adam Mickiewicz University 
Dechun Zhang Leiden University 

Mentors

Christian BadenHebrew University of Jerusalem
Nicoleta CorbuNational University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest
Nicolas HubéUniversité de Lorraine
Ulrike KlingerEuropa-Universität Viadrina
Melanie MaginDepartment of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU 
Jakob OhmeWeizenbaum Institute, FU Berlin
Uta RussmannUniversität Innsbruck
Christian SchemerJohannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Andreas SchuckUniversity of Amsterdam
Agnieszka StepinskaAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Annie WaldherrUniversity of Vienna