Leen Van Brussel studied Communication Sciences at the Free University of Brussels. In 2009, she graduated with a thesis about the representation of migrant women in Flemish women’s magazines. Since October 2009, she’s working on a PhD about the media representations of chronically ill people and their dying process. Her PhD is a part of the overall project ‘Visions about end-of-life care’ in association with the End-of-Life Care research group of the VUB.