Dr K. Manevska (Katerina)

Assistant professor - Empirical Political Science

Dr K. Manevska (Katerina)
Visiting address

Heyendaalseweg 141
6525 AJ NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9108
6500 HK NIJMEGEN

Working days Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Katerina Manevska is a cultural and political sociologist. She received sociological training at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Radboud University in Nijmegen and Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

Katerina’s research program consistently addresses the interplay between cultural value patterns and societal structures and how these influence people’s political beliefs and behavior. She first applied this to understanding ethnocentrism, incorporating the national immigration context and people’s interactions with ethnic outgroups. She found that people interpret information from their social context predominantly according to their pre-existing beliefs, thereby amplifying these. Building on these findings, she started to research the conditions under which people actually change their beliefs, and did this as part of the NWO VICI-project ‘Linking the discontented employee and the discontented citizen’ lead by Prof. Dr. Agnes Akkerman. Within this project, she showed how (responses to) workplace voice affect people’s political beliefs, and she found that voice experiences change people’s political beliefs for some, while not for others. Based on these findings she questioned how, why and under which conditions adult belief change takes place. This question forms the basis for her current and future research endeavors.

While having a personal interest in issues concerning public opinion and politics, Katerina believes that each and every part of society may lead to interesting and relevant research questions. Hence, she tries to keep an ever-open mind to all questions that may arise, not only while being ‘at the job’ but also, and importantly so, from everyday life.

Katerina currently devotes most of her teaching time to the two-year educational master program in social studies and social sciences. She directs this program, teaches four courses within it, among which a course on political socialization, and she serves as a mentor in this program.

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Katerina Manevska primarily uses quantitative methods to research cultural and political change, labour relations and interethnic relations. The way in which people view the world and the values and beliefs in which these perspectives are expressed are paramount to her research.