ASCoR - Sophie K. Lecheler

Sophie Lecheler is an Assistant Professor in Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam.

She holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam; her PhD project was named ‘Framing Politics’ and aimed at testing the conditions under which news framing effects occur over time. For her PhD dissertation, Sophie received the Kyoon Hur Dissertation Award from the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association. Sophie also holds a master’s degree in Communication Science, Intercultural Communication and Psychology from the University of Munich (Germany) and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge (UK) in Contemporary European Studies.

At the University of Amsterdam, Sophie teaches in the Master programme "Political Communication", which includes the study of political communication effects, public opinion, and journalism studies.

Her main research interests include political framing theory, news processing, experimental research and political journalism. 

NEW:

Baden, C. & Lecheler, S. (n.d.). Fleeting, fading, or far-reaching? A knowledge-based model of the persistence of framing effects. accepted for publication in Communication Theory.

UvA

Amsterdam School of Communication Research

Center for Politics and Communication

Graduate School of Communication

MSc Political Communication at the UvA