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Judith Sijstermans is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham on “The Survival of the Mass Party: Evaluating Activism and Participation Among Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe” (aka “Populism In Action”), funded by the ESRC (ES/R011540/1).

Judith focuses on Belgium's Flemish case and the Vlaams Belang party. She
completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where she worked on policy-oriented research projects at the University of Edinburgh on gender and local government, Brexit and devolution, and post-Brexit migration policy in Scotland.