In 2023 I completed a 2-year Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Malmö University. My research project, entitled ‘The child as cipher for a politics of ‘traditional values’ in the anti-gender movement; A comparative study of Russia and Germany’ investigated the instrumentalisation of the figure of the innocent child in anti-gender campaigns and a politics of traditional values. As of 2024, I am based at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, leading the Baltic Sea Foundation project ‘Networked misogyny in Sweden, Germany and Russia: articulations, intersections and transnational flows’.

I hold a BA in Russian Studies from Bristol University, an MSc in Social & Cultural Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck (University of London).

My research interests and expertise include gender and sexuality, digital media and communication, and memory, nationhood and representation. I have a special interest in Germany and Russia, and am fluent in both languages.