PhD Student
Lucas.Kins@ulb.be
+32 (0) 2 650 34 43
Adresse courrier :
ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 124
1050 Bruxelles
Adresse visiteur :
Bâtiment S, 11è étage - Bureau : S11.224
Avenue Jeanne, 44
1050 Bruxelles
Bio
Lucas Kins is a PhD student in political science at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He graduated from SciencePo ULB in 2020 and worked as a researcher at TRANSFO (Research Center for Social Change) from November 2020 through October 2021. He is currently Aspirant FNRS at Cevipol and TRANSFO. His thesis studies the digital communication strategies of Belgian mainstream parties. His research focusses on online electoral campaigns and the implications of digital tools for party organisation.
CV
- Doctoral Researcher | TRANSFO (Charleroi) and Cevipol (Brussels)
2020 – 2021
- Aspirant FNRS | Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique and Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels)
2021 – present
- Board member | Association belge francophone de science politique (Brussels)
2022 – present
- External contributor | Excellence of Science (EOS)
2022 – present
Areas of research
- National and regional politics in Belgium
- Political communication and electoral campaigns
- Digitalization of party organizations
- Research
- Publications
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Kins, L. (2021). A Crisis of Representativeness? A comparative analysis of congruence between parties and their electorate in the 2019 regional election in Flanders. Cevipol Working Papers, 2021 (2)
Close, C., Jacobs, L., Kins, L. (2024). Comment les partis politiques francophones séduisent ou divisent sur le réseau social X. Politique, revue de débats.
Kins, L., Jacobs, L., Close, C. (2025). Different groups, same dislike? Ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation in Belgian populist parties’ communication on social media (accepted)