Eszter Szenes

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About Eszter Szenes

Dr Eszter Szenes is a Lecturer at the School of Education, the University of Adelaide, Australia and a Senior Fellow at the Peace and War Center and Center for Global Resilience and Security, Norwich University, USA. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Sydney. She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellow, co-hosted by the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Austria and the Peace and War Center, Norwich University, USA (2020-2023), and held a post-doctoral researcher position at the Research Collegium for Language in Changing Society (RECLAS), University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2019-2020). From 2013-2019 Eszter was based at the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Registrar Portfolio, The University of Sydney. Eszter incorporates her training in linguistics, education, and sociology into her interdisciplinary collaborations, research and teaching; she has taught in several different countries and contexts. Her most recent research project, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon2020 Framework, was focusing on the role of language and multimodal resources in emerging complex and interrelated societal threats, for example, disinformation and the links between climate change and (violent) extremism. She is especially interested in preventing and countering the effect of disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining democracies from the perspective of computer-mediated communication and critical digital and media literacies.Research interests: radicalization and violent extremism; ecofascism; disinformation / information warfare; critical thinking / critical reflection; disciplinary, digital and critical literacies.AVERT Research Network Profile: