Hiring for a Research and Innovation Associate in Digital Media and Online Misinformation at King's College London

The Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London is recruiting a Research and Innovation Associate in Digital Media and Online Misinformation as part of a new Horizon Europe project.

The role may be of interest to researchers working across digital methods, internet studies, platform studies, science and technology studies and critical disinformation studies. Applications close on 18 November 2026.

Further details and application information are available here. An excerpt from the job ad is copied below:

King’s College London is looking to hire a Research Associate to conduct research on online mis/disinformation ecosystems and on opposition to mis/disinformation counter-measures in Europe. The role holder will work as part of the Horizon Europe project COMPASS (COuntering Manipulation while Preserving Authentic Speech and Society).

The aim of the project is to understand how democratic societies can counter sophisticated information manipulation, without compromising fundamental rights like freedom of expression and privacy.

We are looking for a colleague who can help develop interdisciplinary approaches to study the circulation of online mis/disinformation and responses to misinformation counter-measures, informed by fields and subfields such as digital methods, issue mapping, controversy mapping, internet studies, digital media studies, science and technology studies, communication studies, platform studies, infrastructure studies and software studies.

The post holder will be supervised by Dr. Liliana Bounegru, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Culture and Society, and will additionally be working with Dr Gregory Asmolov, Senior Lecturer in Global Digital Politics, and Dr. Jonathan Gray, Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies.