CURRENT POSITIONS

Senior Researcher

FWO Senior Postdoc Fellow

Guest Professor

European Societies and Culture

International Relations

Guest Professor

Research Design

Affiliated Researcher

FNRS Chercheur Postdoc

RECENT LECTURES

Bastiaan Redert is a Senior Researcher at the University of Antwerp on the topic of LGBTQ+ advocacy and interest groups. He is particularly interested in how these interest groups strategize in varying hostile political contexts, and examines to what extent LGBTQ+ interest groups can influence national and European policymaking. This research project has received funding of the Flemish Reseach Fund, the Walloon Research Fund and the Research Council of the University of Antwerp.

In addition to his role as Senior Researcher, Bastiaan is a Guest Professor at UHasselt since October 2024. In this capacity, he teaches European Politics and International Relations. He is also Guest Professor at the Antwerp Management School, teaching Research Design in the Executive Master Public Management and Leadership program. Simultaneously, Bastiaan provides regular lectures on European politics and policymaking, interest representation, and LGBTQ+ politics at various institutions.

Bastiaan finished his PhD studies at the University of Antwerp in May 2021. His PhD was a part of the Marie Curie Sklodowska Innovative Training Network (ITN) named the ‘The Post-Crisis Legitimacy of the European Union (PLATO) Project.’

After successfully completing his PhD, Bastiaan worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp from May 2021. Here, he played a key role in the TiGRE (Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe) project. This Horizon Europe project aimed to study citizens’ trust in public authorities and regulatory regimes across eight European countries. Bastiaan coordinated coders, conducted surveys and in-depth interviews, and contributed to the collection and publication of scientific results.

LGBTQI+ ADVOCACY

• Policy Promotion or Community Care, EUGENDERING-EUNMUTE Seminar, UCL Saint Louis, Brussels, February 2025
• Building Unity under Hostility:
  Coalition-behavior of LGBTQ+ interest groups in Europe, Standing Group on Interest Groups, Dubrovnik, June 2024
• Policy Promotion or Community Care: Explaining the dual activities of LGBTQ+ interest groups, University of Maastricht, June 2024

EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE

• Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? ECPR Conference on Regulatory Governance, July 2023
• Accountability, Expertise and Trust in Regulatory Agencies. ECPR Conference on Regulatory Governance, July 2023
• How interactions and trust between stakeholders relate in European regulatory regimes. ECPR Conference on Regulatory Governance, July 2023

STAKEHOLDERS & REGULATION

• Agencies’ perceptions on trustworthiness of its stakeholders, ECPR General Conference, University of Innsbruck, 2022
• More of the same: A qualitative perspective to advisory stakeholder bodies in EU agencies, ECPR General Conference Online, August 2020
• Increasing legitimacy by involving stakeholders? University of Antwerp, May 2020