Roman Winkelhahn is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies in Bern. His research on the correlates of perceived societal appreciation and political information behaviour is part of the SNSF-funded project “Feeling left-behind: how lack of social recognition for one’s group influences political information usage and effects”. Roman Winkelhahn holds an M.Sc. degree in Social Science Research (Communication and Media) from Loughborough University (UK) and graduated from TU Dortmund University (Germany) with a B.A. in Journalism Studies (minor in Economics). He is a trained journalist and completed a full-year editorial traineeship with the German business newspaper Handelsblatt. Roman Winkelhahn’s studies, including a two-semester stay at Northern Arizona University (USA), were funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
