PhD Student
clemence.deswert@ulb.be
Adresse courrier :
ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 124
1050 Bruxelles
Adresse visiteur :
Bâtiment S, 11è étage - Bureau : S11.129
Avenue Jeanne, 44
1050 Bruxelles
Bio
Clémence Deswert is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science / FNRS Ph.D. Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, affiliated to the Centre d’Étude de la Vie politique (Cevipol). She holds a master’s degree in Journalism with a specialization in Belgian Politics and Society of the Université libre de Bruxelles and a complementary interuniversity master’s degree in Gender Studies. Her doctoral research focuses on the gendered mediation of political leadership. Clémence co-coordinates the Gender & Politics working group of the Belgian Francophone Political Science Association (ABSP).
CV
- 2022 - ongoing: Doctoral Researcher (FNRS Research Fellow)
- September - November 2024: Visiting researcher at the Political Communication and Public Opinion Laboratory (LACPOP) – Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
- 2022 - ongoing: Co-coordinator of the Working Group on Gender & Politics of the Belgian French-speaking Association of Political Science (ABSP)
- 2020 - 2024: Editorial Assistant – Acta Politica
- 2021-2022: Doctoral Researcher – Doctoral grant Mini-Arc (ULB)
- March 2021 – September 2021: Research Assistant – TRANSFO ULB
- December 2020 - September 2021: Teaching Assistant (SciencePo ULB)
- Full CV
Areas of research
- Gendered mediation of politics
- Gender and politics
- Political leadership
- Women’s political representation
- Political communication
- Sexism in politics
- Belgian and French politics
- Research
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Clémence's doctoral research (“Leading by caring? A contextual approach to the gendered mediation of political leadership”) focuses on the gendered representation of political leadership in the discourse of the French press. Her research is supervised by Caroline Close (Cevipol). Clémence is also working on a study about sexism during the 2024 electoral campaign in Belgium (ULB/UGent, funded by the Institute for the Equality of Women and Men). Together with Caroline Close, she is also conducting research on gender and parliamentary debates.
- Publications
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Deswert C. (2021). The Praise for a ‘Caretaker’ Leader: Gendered Press Coverage of Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès in a COVID-19 Context, Politics of the Low Countries, (3)2, 186-204. doi: 10.5553/PLC/.000017.