Dr. Isabelle Hertner

Biography

Isabelle researches party politics in Germany, Britain, and France, along with the European Union. She is the director of King’s Centre for German Transnational Relations and joined King’s in September 2016 after working as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham. In 2024, she was appointed co-editor of Government Opposition, an International Journal of Comparative Politics. Isabelle holds a PhD in European politics from Royal Holloway, University of London, an MA in European Political Administrative Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, and a bachelor's degree in Political Science from universities in France and Italy. Her research interests focus on political parties in Germany, the UK, and France at the EU level, employing qualitative research methods. She has published her research in various journals and co-edited editions of Politics UK. Isabelle currently supervises PhD students and has extensive experience in public engagement, including appearances on Sky News and BBC 4. Her expertise covers women's and LGBTQ+ representation within political parties, the internal dynamics of party policies, and the organizational developments of social democratic and far-right parties in the EU.

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