Rob Dickinson

Rob Dickinson

Misinformation
University of Sussex

University of Sussex

Radicalisation, Misinformation, International Development, Economics, and Policy professional with eight years professional and eight years academic experience in research, management, teaching, communication, and project management/administration.

Currently working with the InterRAI project on implementation barriers and facilitators in the UK, and researching COVID misinformation as a candidate for a PhD in Psychology and Public Health.

Pursuing an independent project alongside Tom Cowin examining PragerU as a far-right institution and media producer as well as broader questions regarding how the far-right is functionally radicalising people and manipulating new media sources to do so. Our first paper has been published, with our second in submission and a book cohort of 10 currently writing the first book on PragerU.

Interests
  • Contemporary Politics
  • Psychology of Misinformation
  • Psychology of Radicalisation
Education
  • BA, Public policy

    University of Michigan

  • MA, Development Studies

    University of Sussex