Academic Convenors

Silvia Erzeel is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). Her research interests include party politics, political representation, gender and intersectionality, and comparative politics. Her current research focuses on three main areas: the integration of gender equality in political parties, intersectionality and political representation in Europe, and the consequences of economic and social inequality for representative democracy. She is currently steering committee co-chair of the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics.    

Anna van der Vleuten is full professor of Contesting Europeanization at the Department of Political Science, Radboud University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on norm contestations in the field of body and identity politics, gender, LGBTI rights, EU and comparative regionalism (Europe, Africa and Latin America). She has co-edited a Special Issue of Political Studies Review on gender in EU external relations in times of crisis, with Hanna Muehlenhoff and Natalie Welfens; and a Special Issue of Politics and Governance on Trans*Politics: current challenges and contestations, with Mieke Verloo.    

Robin Devroe is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Sciences of Ghent University and member of the research group GASPAR. Her main research interest is the study of the political representation of diverse social groups and voting behaviour, with a specific focus on the descriptive representation of women, and she has a fascination for experimental methods. In the past, Robin was a visiting scholar at Texas A&M University (2018, US). Since 2020, she has been co-convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research’s (ECPR’s) Group on Gender and Politics.