Dr Verena K. Br盲ndle

Dr Verena K. Br盲ndle

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
v.k.brandle@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Government
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr. Brändle is a political scientist specialising in European politics. Her research focuses on topics related to digital democracy, social media, representation, and border politics, with an interest in connecting her research to issues and applications in Computational Social Science Methods for qualitative research designs.

Qualifications

Assistant Professor in Political Sciences and International Studies:

  • PhD, University of Copenhagen
  • MA in Contemporary European Studies, University of Bath, Sciences Po Paris, HU Berlin, FU Berlin
  • BA in Rhetoric (major) and Public Law (minor), University of Tübingen

Biography

Dr Br盲ndle joined the Department in April 2023. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. Prior to that she held Postdoctoral positions in several international research projects at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Siegen.

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In 2020 she was awarded a DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a project entitled 鈥業nforming to dissuade: Governments鈥� digital information campaigns for migrants as bordering practices鈥�. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute and a PhD Visiting Fellow at the Humboldt-University in Berlin.

Teaching

  • Research Design (2nd year undergraduate)
  • Digital Democracy (2nd year undergraduate)

Research

Her research interests include the democratic implications of social media, the representation of future generations as well as border politics.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Cinalli, M, Trenz, H-J, Br盲ndle, VK, Eisele, O & Lahusen, C 2021, . Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics, 1st edn, Routledge, London.

Article

Sivi艧, S, Br盲ndle, VK, Eberl, J-M, Wyatt, S, Braun, K, Metwally, I & Boomgaarden, H 2024, '', Migration Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, mnae025.

Sivi艧, S, Br盲ndle, VK, Eberl, J-M, Wyatt, S, Braun, K, Metwally, I & Boomgaarden, HG 2024, '', Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.

Br盲ndle, VK & Eisele, O 2023, '', JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 597-615.

Br盲ndle, VK, Eisele, O & Kulichkina, A 2023, '', Journal of Information Technology & Politics.

Br盲ndle, VK & Tolochko, P 2023, '', Journal of Borderlands Studies.

Eisele, O, Litvyak, O, Br盲ndle, VK, Balluff, P, Fischeneder, A, Sotirakou, C, Ali, PS & Boomgaarden, HG 2022, '', Digital Journalism, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 952-975.

Br盲ndle, VK 2022, '', Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.

Br盲ndle, VK, Galpin, C & Trenz, H-J 2021, '', Social Movement Studies, vol. 21, no. 1-2, pp. 234-253.

Br盲ndle, VK 2020, '', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 46, no. 13.

Br盲ndle, VK, Eisele, O & Trenz, H-J 2019, '', Mass Communication and Society, vol. 22, no. 6.

Chapter

Br盲ndle, VK 2022, . in C Maximilian, G H谩lfdanarson, A Michailidou, C Galpin & N Pyrh枚nen (eds), Europe in the Age of Post-Truth Politics: Populism, Disinformation and the Public Sphere. 1 edn, Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 151-176.

Br盲ndle, VK, Helles, R & Bruhn Jensen, K 2022, . in K Bruhn Jensen & R Helles (eds), Comparing Communication Systems: The Internets of China, Europe, and the United States. 1st edn, Routledge, pp. 24-45.

Cinalli, M, Eisele, O, Br盲ndle, VK & Trenz, H-J 2020, . in Citizens鈥� Solidarity in Europe.

Trenz, H-J, Br盲ndle, VK, Cinalli, M & Eisele, O 2020, . in Citizens鈥� Solidarity in Europe.