Dr Eszter Szenes

Dr Eszter Szenes is a Lecturer at the School of Education, the University of Adelaide, Australia, and 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 (USYD), Australia. Prior to joining the University of Adelaide, 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 in Finland (2019-2020). Before her postdoctoral research, Dr Szenes was based at the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Registrar Portfolio, The University of Sydney (2013-2019). Her research focuses on the role of language and multimodal resources in emerging complex and interrelated societal threats, such as information disorder, radicalisation 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.