Petra Radic is a PhD candidate in Comparative Politics, with a minor in Social Science Methodology, at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. She holds an MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and an MA in Political Science from CEU.
Petra's research interests lie at the intersection of political communication, political psychology, psycholinguistics, and public opinion dynamics, whereas her methodological focus employs a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches – mostly grounded upon causal inference, experimental design, text-as-data approaches, social network analysis, as well as corpus linguistics.
Before pursuing her PhD, Petra worked on numerous research projects at leading institutions – including Cambridge University, the Alan Turing Institute, LSE, Stanford University, and more.
In these positions, she contributed to studies on media narratives and their evolution, audience engagement in hybrid regimes, the impact of political discourses on public attitudes, deliberative democracy and its potential use in experimental research design, comparative analyses of biases in global news reporting during major conflicts and crises, the mediation of international criminal law, and more.