Rosa Sanchez Salgado is an Associate Professor of European Politics at the Political Sciences Department at the University of Amsterdam. She currently coordinates the Public Policy and Goverance track of the Political Sciences’ Bachelor and Master programs and is member of the UvA social safety Committee.  
In her research and teaching, Rosa Sanchez Salgado focuses on:

• The role of emotions in European policy-making
• The efforts by EU institutions to shape civil society organizations, social movements, and social protest
• Cultural diversity in European policy making

Research expertise

• Emotions
• European Parliament
• Interest groups
• NGOs
• Political sociology
• Europeanization

Media appearances

Some of my last articles in newspapers or blog posts:

• https://www.politico.eu/article/emotion-ultimate-lobbying-weapon/ 
• https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2021/12/17/how-emotions-shape-debates-in-the-european-parliament/ 
• https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/04/13/how-learning-from-cultural-diversity-could-upgrade-european-union-transnational-projects/ 

Other links

Rosa is Member of the Uva’s Political Economy and Transnational Governance group, and of the Amsterdam Center for European Studies.  She is also member of many international Networks, including several ECPR standing groups, the Sociology of Emotions Research Network and the Mindfulness and Social Change Network. 

Professional experience

     Consultant for the Human dignity and human rights caucus (HDHRC). The HDHRC is a temporary device aimed at enhancing human rights within the framework of the Word social Forum (WSF). Her tasks included advice on network management and coordination of HDHRC activities carried out during the WSF in Nairobi (Kenya 2007) and Belem (Brazil 2009). 

     Program and Research Officer for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) from 2001 to 2005. Her task at the Americas departmet at FIDH included research, the organization of international seminars and fact finding missions and lobbying activities before the EU, the UN and the OAS.

Research methods

• Emotion discourse analysis (EDA)
• Critical discourse analysis,
• (reflexive) Qualitative Content Analysis

Current research projects

• Rosa is one of the lead PI on the ACES Interdisciplinary Research Project on the role of Emotions in European Politics.
   

(2014) Europeanizing Civil Society: How the EU shapes Civil Society Organizations (Houndmills: Palgrave)

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(2007) Comment l'Europe construit la societe civile, (Paris:Dalloz)

In the last years Rosa has been teaching the following courses:

• Politics, Power and Governance II, in the Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics Program (PPLE). 
• Advocacy and Lobbying in Europe and Beyond
• Internship & thesis: theorizing practice and practicing theory