Javier Sajuria
PhD Candidate in Political Science
- Name: Javier Sajuria
- Fax: 020 7679 4969
- Email:j.sajuria@ucl.ac.uk
Introduction
Javier Sajuria is a PhD student at UCL and a Post Graduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA) in Research Methods at the Department of Political Science. He holds a Licentiate in Law (J.D.) degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MSc in Democracy and Democratisation from UCL. Prior to joining UCL, Javier worked on topics of civic participation, political parties and political communication. He also worked as speechwriter and contents manager for a campaign in the last Chilean presidential election.
Research Interests
Javier is doing research on the field of Internet Politics and Political Behaviour. His doctoral research, under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Hudson and Dr. Sherrill Stroschein, intends to analyse the creation of social capital in social networks sites (SNS), and how this process may affect different ways of political behaviour. He has also conducted research on the uses of the Internet during protests in Chile and the UK, and how this affects the way people perceive and understand democracy. Javier has a particular interest in the possibilities that the Internet is bringing to politics, especially as a tool for political participation, campaigning and political communication for governments and parties.
Javier’s interests also include voting behaviour, new options for political participation and research methods for political science.
Publications
Sajuria, J. 2009, Descentralización de Partidos Políticos: Una Propuesta de Financiamiento Público Permanente [Political Parties’ Decentralisation: A Proposal of Permanent Public Funding]. Chapter in “Pensando Chile desde las Regiones” (in Spanish), 2009, CONAREDE; Santiago, Chile.
Invited talks
“Internet, Protests and Democracy: A comparative analysis from the UK and Chile.” Paper and presentation prepared for the Third Meeting of the Research Programme in Internet Communication, Virtual Transformation of Social Relations and Identities in the Mediterranean, organized by the Research Institute of the Contemporary Mahgreb (IRMC) and the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), on the topic ‘The Role of Online Social Movements in the Socio Political and Democratic Transition”, Tunis, Tunisia, 12-14 April 2012
Conference presentations
“Is the Internet changing our conception of Democracy? An analysis of the Internet Use during protests and its effect on the perception of democracy.” Paper prepared for the European Political Science Association Conference (EPSA 2012), Berlin, Germany. 21-23 June 2012
