Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer
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 currently a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences. A graduate of SciencePo ULB in 2020, he worked as a researcher at TRANSFO (Research Center for Social Change) from November 2020 to October 2021, then as an FNRS Research Fellow at Cevipol and TRANSFO, where he completed a PhD on the digital communication strategies of Belgian political parties. His research focuses on online electoral campaigns and their implications for party organizations.CV
- Doctoral researcher | TRANSFO and Cevipol (ULB)
2020 – 2021
- Doctoral researcher | Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (affiliated with ULB)
2021 – 2025
- Member of the Board of Directors | ABSP
2022 – 2025
- External collaborator | Excellence of Science (EOS)
2022 – 2025
- Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer | Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences
2025 – 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)