Lena Röllicke
Contact
D-10785 Berlin
Research fields
Lena Röllicke successfully completed her dissertation with the Global Governance unit as a BGTS affiliate in the SCRIPTS-project "Towards a Typology of Contestations" in early 2026 (Freie Universität Berlin). In her PhD, she worked on dynamics of affective polarisation in liberal democracies, using both theoretical-conceptual approaches and qualitative methods (interviews, qualitative text analysis, participant observation).
Previously, she worked as a student assistant in the GLES-project in the department for Democracy and Democratization, in the European Cities and Neighbourhood Project, and as a Junior Teaching Fellow at University College Maastricht. She graduated with a Master of Arts in Political Philosophy from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and a Bachelor in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Maastricht (with an exchange semester at University College London).
Selected Publications
Röllicke, L. (2025). Affective polarization and qualitative methods. In M. Torcal Loriente & E. Harteveld (Eds.), Handbook of Affective Polarization (pp. 88-102). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035310609.00012
Röllicke, L. (2023). Polarisation, identity and affect - conceptualising affective polarisation in multi-party systems. Electoral Studies, 85, 102655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102655