Roxana Bratu
Roxana is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy in the School for Government, The Policy Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy. Roxana’s research interests and publications focus on anti-corruption public policies and practices, digitalization and its impact on (anti)corruption, narratives of corruption and integrity development, ethics and integrity in public policy and artificial intelligence public policies and regulations.
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Jonathan W. Y. Gray is Director of the Centre for Digital Culture and Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. He is also cofounder of the Public Data Lab and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). His research explores the roles of digital data, methods and infrastructures in culture and society. His book Public Data Cultures (Polity, 2025) explores how data is made public in the age of the Internet.
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Jonathan W. Y. Gray
Sarah Gharib Seif
Sarah is a postdoctoral Research Associate on the RESPOND project. Her research on the project focuses on media and corruption, and how both legacy and digital media are captured.
Sarah holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews. Her doctoral research focused on the relationship between the media and the government in the United Kingdom when it comes to reporting on terrorism. Before embarking on the PhD, she obtained a Masters in International Peace and Security from King’s College London, and an undergraduate degree (MA Hons) in International Relations from the University of St Andrews. She previously worked as a researcher on PRELT at CCCPA, with a focus on gender and terrorism, as well as a geopolitics and social media intelligence analyst.
Sarah is currently one of the co-convenors of the Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial (CPD) Working Group within the British International Studies Association..
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Isabella Orpen, PhD, is a postdoctoral Research Associate at the School for Government. She is working on the RESPOND.EU project examining political corruption and the capture of legacy media and social media.
Bella holds a PhD from Cardiff University. Her doctoral thesis titled: Which way down the rabbit hole? Examining pathways to conspiracy mentality focuses on heterogeneity of conspiracy mentality and implications for social media use. Prior to her PhD, she obtained a MA (Hons) from University of Edinburgh in Economics and Politics.
Her research interests include audience reception of conspiracy theories, influence campaigns and information threats, political corruption, and media capture. Her research has been published in Internet Research and Journal of Public Health. She previously worked as a Research Associate at SCIII Cardiff University looking at disinformation, the far right, survey, and social media analysis.
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Isabella Orpen
