Research Interests
- Political communication
- Correlates of media use
- Populism and authoritarianism
- Journalism studies and journalistic practice
- Social theory
- Quantitative Methods
Curriculum Vitae
Roman Winkelhahn is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies in Bern. His research on the correlates of societal recognition 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 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 national business newspaper Handelsblatt. Above that, Roman spent one year as an exchange student at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona (U.S.)
Roman is an alumnus of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
Mitgliedschaften
- Alumni der Studienstiftung e.V.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)
- EX e.V. – Verein der Absolventinnen und Absolventen des Instituts für Journalistik der Technischen Universität Dortmund
- Loughborough University Alumni Association
- Nachwuchsnetzwerk politische Kommunikation (NapoKo) der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Politik
- Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft (SGKM)
