Research
AI and the Far-Right Riots in the UK
(2024-Now)
LSE
Funded by the LSE Urgency Grant Scheme (£2,762.35), I have been investigating how AI has contributed to recent far-right riots in the UK, particularly focusing on how X’s recommendation algorithms amplified racist conspiracy theories. As part of this project, I brought together six scholars from different institutions and disciplines for a workshop to explore how recommendation systems and generative AI tools fuelled the racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic violence seen across the UK between July and August 2024.
Co-lead of the Research Cluster Democracy and Trust
(2021 - 2022)
University of Manchester
PhD in Politics
(2019-2024)
University of Manchester
Teaching
Visiting Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
(01/2025 - Now)
University of Hertfordshire
Course Convenor
EMFSS Dissertation Module
(11/2024 - Now)
London School of Economics and
Political Science
LSE100 Fellow
AI Theme
(09/2023 - Now)
London School of Economics and
Political Science
GTA
World Politics since 1945
(09/2022-06/2023)
King's College London
GTA
Trust and Security
(02/2024-06/2024)
(02/2023-06/2023)
University of Manchester
GTA
Questions about International Politics
(09/2022 - 01/2023)
University of Manchester
GTA / Lecturer
Conspiracy Theories and Democracy
(01/2022 - 06/2023)
(01/2022 - 06/2022)
King's College London
Lecturer
MA Introduction to
Digital Culture and Society
(09/2021 - 01/2022)
King's College London
GTA
International Relations and Politics
(09/2020 - 01/2021)
University of Manchester
Industry experience
Digital Assistant
(05/2021 - 08/2023)
Review of International Studies
As a digital assistant for the Journal Review of International Studies published by Cambridge University Press, I am responsible for building its online presence across different social media networks - Twitter (@RISjnl), and
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/RISjournal).
My tasks involve the production of social media content and the development of campaigns to engage internet users with its contents in a creative and effective way. In my first month in this position, the number of followers on Facebook increased by 8%.
Founder and CEO
(10/2018 - 01/2022)
Words Heal the World
Through the methodology called Educ-(ac)tion, I have equipped undergraduate and Master students from the UK, Brazil, and Argentina with knowledge and skills to challenge online hate speech and develop strategies to tackle different types of discrimination promoted by extremist ideologies. Under my supervision, around 30 students (per term) produced three short documentaries, developed social media campaigns, wrote articles, produced the report Hate Map of Brazil, and facilitated the workshop "From student to student: sharing skills to challenge hate" in Brazilian high schools."
Words Heal the World is a non-profit limited company registered in the UK (Registration number: 11601612).
For more information: https://www.wordshealtheworld.com
Conferences
Conferences
ECPR (09/2025)
Accepted paper: "Staging a Dialogue Between Autonomist Marxists and Post-Marxists: The Case of the Alt-Right Multitude"
ECPR online (09/2023)
Accepted paper: "The power of the alt-right multitude: how and why alt-right conspiracy theories have been legitimised in online spaces"
STR 2025 (07/2025)
Accepted paper: "Algorithms at your service: understanding how X’s systems of recommendation fuelled the far-right riots in the UK by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories"
Council for European Studies 2022 (06/2022)
Accepted paper: ”Assessing The Risks To Democracy In The Digital Era: The Alt-Right Regimes Of 'Conspiratorial Truth'"
PSA 2022 (04/2022)
Political Studies Association
Accepted paper: "From 'stigmatized' to 'legitimate' knowledge: the Alt-Right Regimes of 'Conspiratorial Truth'”
TECH 2018 Transforming Education Conference for Humanity (11/2018)
UNESCO MGIEP - Vizag, India
Presented paper: “Challenging extremism through educ-(ac)tion: how students can break the vicious circle of hate”
PSA 2023 (04/2023)
Political Studies Association
Accepted paper: "When the monster aims at consolidating white, western, and masculine supremacy: the alt-right multitude"
BISA 2022 (06/2022)
British International Studies Association
Accepted paper: "The dangerous impact of the digitalisation of international politics: the Alt-Right Regimes of 'Conspiratorial Truth'"
ISA 2022 (03/2022)
International Studies Association
Accepted paper: "Examining power in network societies: the importance of transdisciplinarity to understand digital political phenomena”
Fellowships/Memberships
2024: APRI Associate Member (Australian Risk Policy Institute)
2023: WHEN (Women’s Higher Education Network) - 100 Black Women Professors Now
2022: Center of Discourse Studies
Forum on Information and Democracy
Political Studies Association (PSA)
British International Studies Association (BISA)
International Studies Association (ISA)
Consultancy
Facebook Policy Initiative 10/2020
In light of my research on the legitimisation of alt-right conspiracy theories, I was invited by Facebook to deliver a presentation on the topic and better inform it on its policy approach to reduce the spread of false information on the platform.
Facebook Policy Initiative 08/2019
Due to my experience with the NGO Words Heal the World, I was invited by Facebook to provide feedback on its policy against hate speech.