Jan Boon

About

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the research groups Politics & Public Governance (PPG, Departement of Political Sciences) and Computational Linguistics & Psycholinguistics (CLiPS, Departement of Linguistics) at the University of Antwerp. In 2019, I was awarded a senior postdoc grant from the Flemish Research Council to work on the project “Reputation and Structural Reforms of Public Organizations: Explaining Temporal Dynamics”. In 2021, I received an additional postdoc grant from the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) for my proposal “Breaking the Cycle: On the dynamics between reputation and innovation in government organizations”. I also teach at the Antwerp Management School and University of Antwerp, and previously taught at Tilburg University.

Interests

• Perceptions of the public sector, reputation and trust
• Reforms, change and innovation in the public sector
• Collaboration and stakeholder participation

Education

• PhD in Public Management, 2016 University of Antwerp
• Master in Business Communication, 2012 University of Ghent
• Master in Political Communication, 2011 University of Antwerp