I am a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where I work on misinformation, vaccine hesitancy and online extremist recruitment. My PhD dissertation (2020) examined information warfare in eastern Ukraine after the Euromaidan revolution. I am currently writing two books: The Psychology of Misinformation; and Information, Influence and War in Ukraine.
Experience
2021–present
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
2020–2021
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
2020–2020
Google Jigsaw postdoctoral fellow, University of Cambridge
Education
2020
University of Cambridge, PhD in Slavonic Studies
2015
Maastricht University, Master of Arts in Politics & Society
2014
Uppsala University, Master of Science in Sustainable Development
2012
Leiden University, Bachelor of Arts in Russian Studies
Publications
2021
Active inoculation boosts attitudinal resistance against extremist persuasion techniques – A novel approach towards the prevention of violent extremism, Behavioural Public Policy
2021
The language of conspiracy: A psychological analysis of speech used by conspiracy theorists and their followers on Twitter, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
2020
Long-term effectiveness of inoculation against misinformation: Three longitudinal experiments, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
2020
Breaking Harmony Square: A game that “inoculates” against political misinformation, Harvard Misinformation Review
2020
Prebunking interventions based on "inoculation" theory can reduce susceptibility to misinformation across cultures, Harvard Misinformation Review
2020
Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world, Royal Society Open Science
2020
Differentiating Item and Testing Effects in Inoculation Research on Online Misinformation, Educational and Psychological Measurement
2020
Inoculating Against Fake News About COVID-19, Frontiers in Psychology
2020
Good news about Bad News: Gamified inoculation boosts confidence and cognitive immunity against fake news, Journal of Cognition
2019
Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
2018
The fake news game: actively inoculating against the risk of misinformation, Journal of Risk Research
Grants and Contracts
2018
WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation
Role:
Research on misinformation
Funding Source:
WhatsApp Inc
2016
CEELBAS-CDT Doctoral Research Grant
Role:
3-year PhD research grant
Funding Source:
Arts and Humanities Research Council
2016
Doctoral Award
Role:
3-year PhD maintenance grant
Funding Source:
University of Cambridge
Honours
2020 Frank Prize in Public Interest Communications