Audrey BRENNAN - CEVIPOL - Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique

Bio

[Bio FR]

Audrey Brennan est doctorante en science politique en cotutelle avec le département de science politique de l’Université Laval, et bénéficie d’un mandant d’Aspirante FNRS. Elle a également été boursière Mini-ARC « seedmoney » de 2018-2019. Elle détient un baccalauréat en science politique de Concordia University et une maîtrise en science politique de l’Université Laval.
Par le passé elle s’est concentrée sur la politique canadienne, la politique comparée, la politique électorale et l’administration publique. Aujourd’hui, elle s’intéresse à la politique comparée et aux partis politiques. Son mémoire de maîtrise portait sur la campagne à la chefferie du Parti conservateur du Canada (2016-2017). Dans le cadre de sa thèse doctorale, Brennan étudie l'évolution des règles des courses à la direction des partis politiques

[Bio Eng]

Audrey Brennan is completing a joint doctorate in political science within the departments of political science of Université libre de Bruxelles and Université Laval. She is also an FNRS Research Fellow and has benefitted from a Mini-ARC seedmoney in 2018-2019. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Concordia University and a master's degree in political science from Université Laval.
In the past her research has focused on Canadian politics, comparative politics, electoral politics and public administration. Today she is interested in comparative politics and political parties. Her master's thesis studied the leadership campaign of the Conservative Party of Canada (2016-2017). As part of her dissertation, Brennan studies the evolution of political parties' leadership selection rules.

CV

PhD in Political and Social Sciences Expected completion in September 2024
Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels

PhD in Political Science Expected completion in September 2024
Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

Master's degree in Political Science - with dissertation 2018
Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

Political Science 2015
Concordia University, Montreal

Research EXPERIENCES

esearch Assistant 2016-2020
Université Laval, Quebec

Scientific literature review
Data encoding
Data collection

Coordinator – Study of Impacy 2018
Université de Montréal / Election Québec, Montréal et Québec

Communication between principal investigator, Élections Québec, school boards and schools
Development of recruitment material with researcher
Implementation of project management tools

Coordinator- Study of Impacy 2016-2018
Université de Montréal & Élections Québec, Montréal and Québec

Develop questionnaires with principal investigator
Communication between Élections Québec, principal investigator and schools
Linguistic revision
Recruitment of participating primary schools
Timetable management of facilitators in schools
Implementation of project management tools

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Doctoral Excellence 2023
$2,500 (CAD)

Annual Doctoral Excellence Scholarship of the Research Chair in Democracy and Parliamentary Institutions

Research Grant 2022
$2,000 (CAD)

Student research scholarship from the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship to make a field of research.

Methodological Grant 2022
$2,000 (CAD)

Scholarship to attend the "Methods Net" School to take regression courses

FNRS Research Fellowship 2020
$180,054 (CAD)

Belgian 4-year doctoral funding. 27.836,40 €/year (2020-2022) and 32,181,00 €/year (2023-2024)

World Citizen Grant 2020
$10,000 (CAD)

Mobility grant for a stay at a foreign university.

Research Grant (unused) 2020
$470 (CAD)

Student research grant from the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship to write a chapter in a collective work.

Mini-ARC seed money 2018
$50,223 (CAD)

Mini-ARC grants are awarded to researchers or research teams on the basis of criteria of excellence and the research potential they represent for the future of ULB (34109€).

Research Grant 2017
$2,000 (CAD)

Student research scholarship from the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship to provide the research ground for my dissertation project.

Mobility Grant – ICUF 2015
$4,100 (CAD)

Concordia University and Ireland Canada University Foundation Mobility Scholarship to attend an intensive Gaelic course at NUIG.

Domaines d'intérêt

Political parties, Canadian politics, comparative politics, electoral systems, intra party party democracy

Présentation des enseignements

Teaching Assistant 2016-2020
Université Laval, Quebec

Correction of assignments and examinations
Meeting with students
Development of active learning activities

Teaching Assistant 2019
Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels

Correction of assignments and examinations
Animation of practical sessions
Teaching theoretical subjects on Canadian politics

Présentation des recherches

(Un)writing the Rules: Party Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences of Changes in Leadership Section Mechanisms

Travaux sélectionnés

(Accepted) Sullivan, Katherine V.R., and Audrey E. Brennan "Social Media for Women in Academia" in Gender in the Academy. Ed. Kersty Kearney, Rachael Johnstone, and Bessma Momani. UBC Press. Vancouver.

Recension de Frédéric Boily, Droitisation et Populisme: Canada - Québec - États-Unis, Bulletin d'histoire politique 29, no. 3, Hiver 2021

Emilien Paulis, Marco Ognibene and Audrey E. Brennan; «Les partis et les réseaux sociaux» dans Les partis politique en Belgique. Ed. Pascal Delwit Emilie van Haute. 2021 4e dition. Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles.Bruxelles Belgique

Eric Montigny and Audrey Brennan. «Pétitions électroniques au Québec : entre transfert et résistance», Participation vol 28, no. 3 (2020): 151-176

Pilet, Jean-Benoit, Maria Jimena Sanhuza, David Talukder, Jérémy Dodeigne, and Audrey E. Brennan. "Opening the Opaque Blank Box: An Exploration into Blank and Null Votes in the 2018 Walloon Local Elections." Politics of the Low Countries 1, no. 3 (2019): 182-204.