Ukrainian Debate Series: Information War in Russia

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CHAIR BIO:

DR MAXIM ALYUKOV
King’s College London
Maxim Alyukov is a postdoctoral fellow at King’s Russia Institute. He is also a researcher with Public Sociology Laboratory (St Petersburg). Maxim holds a PhD in social sciences from the University of Helsinki and an MA in sociology from the European University at Saint-Petersburg. Maxim’s research has been published in a variety of disciplinary and area studies journals, including Politics, Nature Human Behaviour, Qualitative Psychology, and Europe-Asia Studies. He has also made guest appearances on a number of British and European TV and radio shows, such as BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, Deutsche Welle, and others. Maxim is a regular contributor to OpenDemocracy. 

SPEAKERS’ BIOs:

Dr Jade McGlynn
Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Dr Jade McGlynn is a Senior Researcher at the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies, based at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Previously, she was a lecturer in Russian at University College, Oxford, where she also completed her PhD on Russian memory politics and state propaganda since 2012. Jade has published on Russian media, identity construction and uses of history in academic journals and in the media (Foreign Policy, Spectator, Telegraph). She is the editor of two academic volumes on memory and history and her forthcoming book, The Kremlin’s Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin’s Russia is due to be published by Bloomsbury Publishers in December.

Dr Václav Štětka
Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough
Dr Václav Štětka is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, where he has been working since 2016. Previously he has held research and academic posts at Masaryk University in Brno, Charles University in Prague, and the University of Oxford. His current research interests encompass political communication in the digital environment, the dissemination and impact of mis/disinformation, and the relationship between media and democracy in post-transition countries. He is Principal Investigator of the project “The Illiberal Turn: News Consumption, Polarization and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe” (2019–2022), and contributor to several other international research projects and networks. He has been engaged in various activities in support of independent media, including as a member of the expert team of the Czech-based Endowment for Independent Journalism, or as a member of the Committee for Editorial Independence of the Czech media house Economia. 

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