Leen d'Haenens - Biography#

Leen d’Haenens holds an MA in Romance Languages, University of Ghent, Belgium; an MSc in Press and Communication Sciences, University of Ghent; an MSc in Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada; and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences, University of Ghent. Through her involvement in the Europe-wide EU KIDS Online network (since 2008) and the Net Children Go Mobile cross-country research team (in 2014), she has advised the Flemish government as well as the European Commission about the role of governments in steering media literacy, policy development on online resilience and online coping strategies targeted at children at risk. She has been a Board Member of the Netherlands Journalism Fund (The Hague) between 2008 and 2016; she is Vice-chair of the Chamber for Impartiality and Protection of Minors of the Flemish Media Regulator as of 2005, and a member of the Euromedia Research Group as of 2008. She held a Jean Monnet Chair on European Integration in Media and Telecommunications Policy (2000-2007) and ran a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (European Centre for the Interdisciplinary Assessment of Initiatives for Public Governance, 2002-2007), when appointed at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is co-editor of the International Communication Gazette (Sage, ISI-ranked), editor-in-chief of Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research (ISI-ranked), and editorial board member of Digital Journalism (Taylor & Francis, ISI-ranked) and New Media & Society (Sage, ISI-ranked). Since 1996 Leen d’Haenens (co)-authored 191 articles (peer reviewed journals, mostly in English), 90 book chapters, and books. She edited 18 books and supervised 13 PhD theses to completion.