DrRene Rejon

Dr. René Rejón is an Early Career Researcher investigating the impacts of structural injustice on political representation, and the ways in which democratic institutions should be reformed to effectively increase both descriptive and substantive representation. Employing Grounded Normative Theory and leveraging cutting-edge computational methods (i.e., web scraping, text mining, NLP and fine-tuning LLMs), he uses quantitative and qualitative empirical data to inform theoretical discussions.

His work has been published in top journals across various social science subfields, including Political Studies, Environmental Politics, and Ethnic and Racial Studies. His current projects are funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Fighting Harmful Online Communication Hallmark Research Initiative (University of Melbourne).

Dr. Rejón has solid training and ample research experience in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. He is a proficient user of software for survey design/distribution (i.e., SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, PollEverywhere), qualitative data analysis (i.e., NVivo) and interactive data visualisation (i.e., PowerBI, Tableau). He is also a qualified user of R Studio. He serves an Editorial Member of Social Science Research, and as Outreach and Impact Lead at QuantLab.