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Judith Sijstermans

Research Fellow
University of Edinburgh

Biography

Judith Sijstermans is a Research Fellow on ESRC-funded project “A Family of Nations? Brexit, Devolution and the Union” led by Professor Nicola McEwen, which explores intergovernmental relations and the future of devolution after Brexit. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham on the ESRC-funded project ‘The Survival of the Mass Party’ in which she researched the party organizational strategies of European populist parties and led research on the Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest). She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2019 on political party learning between Europe’ sub-state nationalist parties, particularly in Scotland, Catalonia, Friesland and Brittany.