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Staff members with discipline Communication Studies

Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.

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cognitive processes, writing models, keystroke logging, text production processes, writing strategies
dr. V.M. (Veerle) Baaijen
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v.m.baaijen rug.nl
+31 50 36 35859
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Assistant professor
drs. I.M. (Iris) Baas
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i.m.baas rug.nl
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j.o.van.bijsterveld rug.nl
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In 2017 I became a teacher of English as a foreign language (TEFL). In the same year I started my Research Master studies, my work was focused on Facebook and its consequences in terms of self-esteem, identity, and affective feelings.

From 2018 on, I have been teaching EFL in Chilean Universities.

In 2020, I started my PhD, which is focused on Instagram and some psychiatric consequences of its use.
R.A. (Rosmery-Ann) Boegeholz Castillo
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r.a.boegeholz rug.nl
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PhD student
Bachelor Human Technology: as a human technology engineer I act as an intermediary between users and developers of technical products. I do research, advise and facilitate the development of technology in such a way that the characteristics, wishes and needs of the different user groups are based on. Master of Communication and Information Sciences: as a communication expert I look at the form, function and effects of language and language use in communicative situations such as websites or manuals.
J.A. (Josien) de Boer, MA
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josien.de.boer rug.nl
+31 50 36 39632
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Teamlead team Assessment Support / Project coordinator new learning environment
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My researches aim to support patients with ‘limited literacy’, who have problems to understand and act on health information and communication, in their disease and treatment understanding and management. My main research focuses on chronic kidney disease (CKD) and limited health literacy (LHL). This project, Bridging the gap, is financed by the Social Sciences Call of the Dutch Kidney Foundation and aims to develop both a training for health care professionals to support patients with limited health literacy as well as the multimedial intervention ‘Keep a Grip on Your Kidneys’ for patients with all kind of visual information and advices to protect the kidneys. I am also part of a research team on social insurance literacy. With quantitative and qualitative methods our project on social insurance literacy aims to learn how literacy problems affect social insurance processes and what is needed to improve the support of people with these problems.
M.D. (Marco) Boonstra, MA
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m.d.boonstra umcg.nl
+31 6 5324 3985
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PhD
- Digital Media Use
- Digital Literacy
- Digital Inclusion
- Media Education in Schools 
- Media and Migration
- Inter- and Transcultural Communication
C. (Çigdem) Bozdag Bucak, Dr
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c.bozdag rug.nl
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Assistant Prof.
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Theory and history of developmental psychology (esp. the Cold War popularization of Jean Piaget by American psychologists and educators), archival history (esp. Piaget's unpublished causality manuscripts), historiography, knowledge translation & indigenization / internationalization, taxonomic incommensurability, indeterminacy in translation, digital humanities, PsycINFO
J.T. (Jeremy) Burman, PhD
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j.t.burman rug.nl
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Senior Assistant Professor
Digital journalism, global journalism, digital media criticism, media accountability/policy, comparative studies, digital media culture, data and activism, media representation and media participation
D.K. (David) Cheruiyot, PhD
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d.k.cheruiyot rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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Information, internal and external communications for the Faculty of Law.
M.E. (Marije) Cnossen, MA
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m.e.cnossen rug.nl
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Communications Advisor
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I am a language-focussed, critical discourse analyst/applied linguist interested in the role of language in professional and business contexts, in particular online. In my work I explore how language constitutes our social reality, and how we can best educate the world about this important knowledge. 
I conduct empirical linguistic-discourse analytical research, theorise and educate  about language awareness and discourse consciousness. I am an experienced and passionate researcher-educator with a sense of responsibility to nurture a future generation of critical text consumers who are also ethical, responsible and empowered communicators.
I lead on courses based on discourse analysis, often with a business/professional communication slant. I co-host the Words and Actions podcasts and am the proud co-author of the textbook Language in Business, Language at Work (working currently on the 2nd edition).
E. (Erika) Darics, PhD
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e.darics rug.nl
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I am a discourse analyst and interactional sociolinguist primarily interested in health and language, and more specifically in health and the media, food and health, and the body in health discourses. Secondarily, I am also interested in sibling interaction.
J.H.M. (Jana) Declercq, Dr
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j.h.m.declercq rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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B.E. (Bianca) Dijkstra
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b.e.dijkstra rug.nl
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PhD student
Field / Discipline
A. Eslambolchi, MA
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a.eslambolchi rug.nl
+31 50 36 33947
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Digital Media; Social Networks; Computational Social Science
M. (Marc Esteve Del Valle) Esteve Del Valle, PhD
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m.esteve.del.valle rug.nl
+31 50 36 35812
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- Language and social interaction
- Questionnaire design and research methodology
drs. J.K. (Jeffry) Frikken
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j.k.frikken rug.nl
+31 50 36 35858
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Lecturer Communication and Information Studies
Research Communication
J. (Jasmijn) Froma, MA
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j.froma rug.nl
+31 6 2568 7221
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Communication officer
Field / Discipline
R.F. (Rashid) Gabdulhakov, PhD
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r.f.gabdulhakov rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
Bharath is a political geographer focusing on new media, political communication, and cultures of hate and intolerance online using computational and qualitative methods.  

Research Interests  

- Hate, Intolerance, and Prejudice in Europe and North America
- Racism and Bigotry in Digital Propaganda
- Regulatory Responses to Extremism Online
- Social Media and Political Culture
- Disinformation, Social Media Manipulation, and Digital Advertising 

Methodological Interests  

- Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, and Critical Discourse Analysis
- Social Network Analysis
- Visual Methods 

Biography  

Prior to joining the University of Groningen, Bharath was a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. At the OII, he contributed to three projects: (1) the Computational Propaganda Project, where he contributed to analysis of Russian social media manipulation in the United States; (2) the VOX-Pol Project, where he contributed research on digital cultures of the far right in Europe and North America; and (3) the Data Science in Local Government Project, where he contributed survey design and data analysis to understand the state of the art of data science techniques used in local government in the UK (2017-2018).

Bharath completed his PhD in Geography at UCL in 2017, funded by the Bonnart Trust (www.fbbtrust.org.uk). From 2014 to 2017, he was also Senior Researcher at Tell MAMA (www.tellmamauk.org), a British charity that monitors and supports victims of anti-Muslim hate crime. Bharath has commented widely on issues related to disinformation on social media, Russian involvement in the 2016 United States election, hate speech, and the radical right in the UK Houses of Parliament, United Nations, and international media outlets. His recent publications have appeared in journals including the Journal of International Affairs and European Societies. 
B. (Bharath) Ganesh, PhD
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b.ganesh rug.nl
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After completing her PhD at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2016, she spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies at the University of Bremen. She is the author of "Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis" (Palgrave, 2017). Her other publications include peer-reviewed articles on nationalism, sexuality, and social networks, as well as regular blog posts at “The Duck of Minerva”. Lisa's research is situated on the intersection of political theory, international relations, media and cultural studies. 
E. (Lisa) Gaufman, Dr
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e.gaufman rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Russian Discourse and Politics
Survey Methodology: mixed-mode and mixed-device surveys, targeting of hard-to-survey populations, interviewer-respondent interaction.

Qualitative Research methods: interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis

Member Educational Committee Sociology
M. (Marieke) van Gerner-Haan, PhD
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marieke.haan rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
Language and literacy development
prof. dr. C.M. (Kees) de Glopper
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c.m.de.glopper rug.nl
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Professor emeritus of Speech Communication and Discourse Analysis (briefly: Discourse Studies)
aphasia, everyday interaction, spontaneous speech, liveliness, comprehensibility, enactment
dr. R. (Rimke) Groenewold
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r.groenewold rug.nl
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Post-doc
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Communication advisor of the Knowledge Platform, which collects and shares knowledge and research that is relevant for social policy in the Groningen gas extraction area. The Knowledge Platform stimulates partnerships to create more attention for social impact. It brings people and knowledge together and strives for a society where industry, state and society are in harmony.


Communication science, Creative concepting, Event organisation, Graphic design, Photography, Styling
P. (Paulien) de Haas, MA
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p.de.haas rug.nl
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Communications advisor
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Through my research, I aim to contribute to the co-creation of a socio-technical context that empowers individuals to enhance their wellbeing.

Topics: Information system implementation, adoption and adaptation, Communication, Aging, Organizational change, Societal challenges, Mixed methods, Participatory research
M.L. (Eveline) Hage, PhD
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m.l.hage rug.nl
+31 50 36 33244
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Assistant professor
Berber Hagedoorn is Assistant Professor Media Studies & Audiovisual Culture at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests revolve around screen cultures (representations and crossmedia storytelling practices, particulary around television) and audiovisual cultural memory in Europe. For example, she studies how the combination of television with new (cross-)media technologies has influenced the role of television as a storyteller (‘history teacher’) and information source for current media generations. Hagedoorn is the Vice-Chair of ECREA’s Television Studies section (European Communication Research and Education Association) and Member of the EUscreen Foundation Board, organizing cooperation for European research and education into television’s history and its future as a multi-platform storytelling practice. She received the 2021 CLARIAH Teaching Fellowship for a project teaching students in the international classroom to use the English-language collections in the CLARIAH Media Suite for creative multimodal storytelling projects and she received the 2018 Europeana Research Grant award for digital humanities research into Europe’s cultural heritage online. She has extensive experience in Media and Culture Studies and Digital Humanities through large-scale European and Dutch best practice projects on digital audio-visual heritage and cultural memory representation, including EuropeanaEUscreen and CLARIAH. Hagedoorn has published in a.o. Critical Studies in Television, Media and Communication, Studies in Documentary Film, Journal of European Studies, Continuum and VIEW. She is the co-editor of two special issues on ‘The Youthification of Television’ in Critical Studies in Television (16.2 & 16.4, 2021) and the forthcoming edited volume New Challenges in European Television Series: National Experiences in a Transnational Context (Comares). For more information, see: https://berberhagedoorn.wordpress.com
dr. B. (Berber) Hagedoorn
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b.hagedoorn rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Media Studies & Audiovisual Culture
Identity negotiation in companion service
X. (Xuedi) Han
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xuedi.han rug.nl
+31 6 1033 0297
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PhD student
Chinese populism, discourse polarization, political communication
K. (Kun) He, PhD
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k.he rug.nl
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Persuasive Communication
prof. dr. J.C.J. (John) Hoeks
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j.c.j.hoeks rug.nl
+31 50 36 37443
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Full Professor of Communication and Information Sciences
Qian's research interests and expertise include digital vigilantism, digital harms, creator culture, and digital culture in general. Her research intersects media studies and surveillance studies through lenses of critical theories such as feminism and post-colonialism. She is currently working on research projects studying how content creators negotiate their identities and manage their visibility in daily production practices in contemporary surveillance culture (including potential peer surveillance, platform governance, and state censorship), especially in transnational contexts.
dr. Q. (Qian) Huang
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qian.huang rug.nl
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Lecturer
Conversation Analysis / Multimodal Communication / Health Communication
prof. dr. M. (Mike) Huiskes
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m.huiskes rug.nl
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Associate Professor
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L.I. (Lucia) Jansen, MA
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l.i.jansen rug.nl
+31 6 3198 2979
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Communications officer
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Emillie is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam’s Open Intelligence Lab, and a research consultant for the UN DPPA Innovation Cell. Her research lies on the formation of speech norms in social media content moderation and their impact in the formation of online counter-spheres. With the UN DPPA Innovation Cell, she develops analytical software and research methods for monitoring public conflict and dialogue across the web.

Keywords: digital methods, content moderation, online extremism, conflict monitoring
E.V. (Emillie Victoria) de Keulenaar, MA
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e.v.de.keulenaar rug.nl
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PhD student
- Conversation Analysis
- Classroom interaction
- Emergency calls
- Health communication
prof. dr. A.J. (Tom) Koole
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tom.koole rug.nl
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Professor emeritus
Field / Discipline
Language and Social Interaction, Health Communication
L.E. (Lourens) Kraft van Ermel
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l.e.kraft.van.ermel rug.nl
+31 50 36 35858
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Lecturer Communication and Information Studies
Children's use of digital media - The development of digital literacy; media literacy; news competencies; citizenship
D. (Denise) Mensonides
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d.mensonides rug.nl
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PhD-Student
Decoloniality
Theory from the South
Media & National Identity
Digital & Emerging Media
Video Games
Media Theory
Critical Race Theory
Decolonial Ecopolitics
R.L. (Rachel Lara) van der Merwe, PhD
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r.l.van.der.merwe rug.nl
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A. (Adina-Loredana) Nistor
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a.nistor rug.nl
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Communication advice, background articles, news and press releases, social media
B. (Beau) Oldenburg, PhD
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b.oldenburg rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4703
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Advisor science communication
K. (Karin) van Ommeren, MA
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k.van.ommeren rug.nl
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Communications officer
Field / Discipline
Survey Research Methodology, Interviewer-respondent interaction in Survey interviews, Sequence Viewer
dr. Y.P. (Yfke) Ongena
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y.p.ongena rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4036
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Senior Lecturer
Coach, Communications, Trainer
E. (Erika) Pacheco Castaño
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e.pacheco.castano rug.nl
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Trainer
Field / Discipline
Conversation analysis
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h.c.w.padmos rug.nl
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Lecturer - researcher
Field / Discipline
Political discourse, propaganda, media trust & media use, civic engagement
O. (Olga) Pasitselska, PhD
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o.pasitselska rug.nl
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Argumentation theory, health communication, metaphor studies, pragmatics, rhetoric
dr. L. (Lotte) van Poppel
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l.van.poppel rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
Robert Prey is a media scholar who studies the relationship between technology, capitalism and culture. Dr. Prey's research and writings focus on algorithmic recommendation systems and the interdependent processes of ‘datafication’ and ‘platformization’. His current focus is on music streaming platforms and the music, musicians and industry developing around them.  

Dr. Prey completed his PhD in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University (Canada) in 2015. Before this, he worked with Migrant World Television (MWTV) in Seoul, South Korea. 

Areas of Expertise:
Technology and Society
Cultural Industries (esp. the music industries)
Cultural/Creative Labour
Social and Media Theory
Political Economy of (New) Media



R. (Robert) Prey, PhD
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r.prey rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
Discourse & Communication
prof. dr. G. (Gisela) Redeker
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g.redeker rug.nl
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Professor of Communication Studies
Photography, content creation, science journalism and -communication, strategy development, strategic communication
L.J. (Leoni) von Ristok, MSc
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l.von.ristok rug.nl
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Visual maker I image editor I science writer
Field / Discipline
Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics, Institutional interaction, Multimodal interaction
dr. N. (Nynke) van Schepen
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n.van.schepen rug.nl
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Lecturer
Conversation Analysis, Text Analysis, Survey Research
L. (Lisanne) Slot, MA
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l.slot rug.nl
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PhD student
Field / Discipline
human communication, information presentation, human computer interaction, natural language generation, affective computing, multimodal interaction.
dr. I.F. (Ielka) van der Sluis
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i.f.van.der.sluis rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
My overall research program is to identify pathways toward sustainability, and develop communication models and products that help materialize these pathways. This takes a broad view of sustainability that includes improving social relations as well as our relation with the natural environment. It also reflects a focus both on developing theory and applying it to specific focal topics. Fields of interest include environmental communication, behavior change, and program design and evaluation. Focal topics include sustainable food transitions (e.g., protein transition; plant-based eating) and protecting vulnerable populations (e.g., child protection; human-animal relations).
J.D. de Sousa Graça, PhD
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joao.graca rug.nl
+31 50 36 35858
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Field / Discipline
Discourse studies, text linguistics, stylistics, cognitive linguistics
dr. N.M. (Ninke) Stukker
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n.m.stukker rug.nl
+31 50 36 35865
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universitair docent
J.G. (Joris) de Tomasi, MSc
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j.g.de.tomasi rug.nl
+31 6 3198 2375
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Communications Officer, Web coordinator
Multimodal Communication
N. (Nina) van der Velden
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n.van.der.velden rug.nl
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Teacher Communication and Information Studies
Field / Discipline
Mediated political participation and citizenship; political and social theory; critical platform studies; content moderation and other aspects of platform governance; data colonialism
J.C. (João) Vieira Magalhães, PhD
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j.c.vieira.magalhaes rug.nl
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Assistant Professor in Media, Politics and Democracy
Corporate and Marketing Communication
dr. W. (Wim) Vuijk
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w.vuijk rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4040
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Lecturer
Field / Discipline
Ancient Greek linguistics; Ancient Greek Literature; Discourse Analysis
prof. dr. G.C. (Gerry) Wakker
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g.c.wakker rug.nl
+31 50 36 38192
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Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature
medical communication, education, psychosocial oncology
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h.wiel umcg.nl
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Professor in health psychology
Multimodality, Semiotics, Text and Discourse Analysis, Discourse Semantics, Media Analysis (films, comics, social media, games)
J. (Janina) Wildfeuer, Dr
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j.wildfeuer rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4038
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Assistant Professor
Field / Discipline
Media Studies
Cultural Industries
Cultural Sociology
Game Studies
Sociology of Religion
Conspiracy Culture
dr. L.A.W.J. (Lars) de Wildt
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l.a.w.j.de.wildt rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Media Studies
Interaction in the classroom, conversation analysis, learning in interaction, institutional interaction, mulitmodal interaction
A. (Annerose) Willemsen
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a.willemsen rug.nl
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Researcher
E.L. (Emma) Zaal
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e.l.zaal rug.nl
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PhD
Satire, Humor, Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism, Identity
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s.m.zekavat rug.nl
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Social and political implications of new media technologies, Political communication,Citizen (dis)engagement, polarization
Q. (Qinfeng) Zhu, PhD
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qinfeng.zhu rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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