SSH/ESPB Faculty of Economics, Social and Political Sciences and Communication Saint-Louis (ESPO-SaintLouis)
SSH/IRIS Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire Saint-Louis (IRIS-L)
SSH/SPLE Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE)
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Thomas Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of Communication Science at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles and co-director of Engage, since March 2024. Thomas is mainly interested in the discursive dimension of political communication. He particularly works on hegemony theory, poststructuralism, post-Marxism, political strategy, and the Essex School of Discourse Analysis. Thomas’s research has featured in journals such as Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Discourse Studies, Critical Review, the Journal of Language and Politics, Rethinking Marxism, and the International Journal for Social Research Methodology, and he has contributed to the Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies and the Handbook of Political Discourse. His first research monograph, Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy, was published by John Benjamins in 2022. He was previously attached to the Ghent Institute for International and European Studies (Ghent University) and to the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis (University of Essex). His doctorate, entitled Winning Hegemony, won the Els Witte Award for best dissertation in Political Science in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2021. He is a board member of DiscourseNet. He teaches in English, French, and Dutch.
Learning units for 2025
| Label | Code |
|---|---|
| Corporate communication and public relations | BCOMU1211 |
| Research Methods in Digital Communication | BCOMU2212 |
| Organisational Communication in a Multicultural Context | BMHCI1000 |
| Communication science | BPOLS1114 |
| Media institutions analysis | BPOLS1115 |