Before joining the University of Birmingham in September 2011, Isabelle was a lecturer in European Studies and German at King’s College London. Her PhD, which she did at Royal Holloway, University of London, analyses the Europeanization of social democratic party organizations with a focus on the British Labour Party, the French Socialist Party and the German Social Democratic Party. Before coming to the UK, Isabelle lived in Belgium, where she did her MA and gained work experience as a lobbyist for a German welfare NGO. Isabelle has a M.A. in Politics, French and Italian from Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and speaks German, English, French, and Italian.
Isabelle Hertner (2011) 'Are European Election Campaigns Europeanised? The Case of the Party of European Socialists in 2009'. Government and Opposition, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 321-344.
Isabelle Hertner and James Sloam. 'How Europe votes: the case of Germany'. In: Erol Kulahci (ed.) How Europe votes. ECPR Press. (Forthcoming 2011)
Isabelle Hertner and James Sloam. 'The Europeanisation of Social Democracy: Politics without Policy?' In Henning Meyer and Jonathan Rutherford (eds.) The Future of European Social Democracy: Building the Good Society. Palgrave (Forthcoming 2011).
Isabelle Hertner (2010) John Callaghan et al. (2009) (eds.) In search of social democracy. Responses to crisis and modernisation. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. And Patrick Diamond and Roger Liddle (2009) (eds.) Beyond New Labour. The future of social democracy in Britain. London: Politico’s. ‘Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft’ (IPG) / ‘International Politics and Society’, October 2010.http://www.fes.de/ipg