Jana Bernhard-Harrer, BA Bakk. MA

Research Associate (pre-doc)

Kolingasse 14-16
1090 Wien

T: +43-1-4277-483 06
eMail: jana.bernhard@univie.ac.at

From April 2021 until September 2024, Jana (she/her) was a PhD student in the research project Digitize! "Digitize! Computational Social Sciences in the digital and social Transformation", where she worked on Data collection format of automated text analysis techniques. Her research interests include different forms of political communication and computerized text analyses. Since October 2024 Jana is part of the Monitoring Electoral Democracy (MEDem) team, which is tasked with setting up a research infrastructure for European election data. 

Jana completed a double-degree MSc program in Public Policy and Human Development at the United Nations University MERIT and the University of Maastricht in the field of risk communication with the thesis "Beat them with their own weapons: Making Human Rights "Cool" Again". She also completed the Research Master Communication Science (MSc) at the University of Vienna with the master thesis "(Non-) Populism in Austria".