In the interest of transparency, this page lists all current and recent funding (from 2018 onward) from all sources. It also lists all associations and consultancies with corporate bodies and government agencies.

Statement on Corporate Funding

I have received research funding from Google, through its Jigsaw incubator, which came to an end in 2025. I have not received any research funding from any other corporate body
in the past. I am no longer accepting funding from corporate bodies, in particular online platforms (i.e., Meta, Google, and so on).

Current funding

• Australian Research Council
• European Research Council Advanced Grant (PRODEMINFO)
• Horizon 2020 project SoMe4Dem (Social Media for Democracy; through UKRI replacement funding)
• Research Council of Finland

Recent but no longer current funding

• Volkswagen Foundation (Germany)
• John Templeton Foundation (via Wake Forest University’s “Honesty Project”)
• Economic and Social Research Council (in part through CREST; Center for Research and Evidence on Security Threats)
• Economic and Social Research Council, Impact Acceleration Award
• Natural Environment Research Council
• VaxAtt (Finland)
• Horizon 2020, European Commission (JITSUVAX)
• Jigsaw (technology incubator created by Google)
• Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) Mercury Project

Consultancies and associations (paid)

• Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Associations and engagements (unpaid)

• Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
• Facebook (no longer active and will not be resumed)

Advisory Boards and Expert Panels

• International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE); member of Method Panel (2024-).
• Leibniz Lab “Pandemic Preparedness”, External Advisory Board member (2024-).
• Eviva Partners, Elevating Health Literacy, External Advisor (2024-2025).
• Member, network False Webs: Network to address the misinformation pandemic (2023-).
• Women in Cognitive Science Europe (WICS), Advisory Board (2023-).
• Springer Nature, European Research Advisory Council (2022-).
• Digipatch.eu (Horizon 2020 funded), Advisory Board (2022-).
• ERC Advanced Grant Consequences of conspiracy theories (CONSPIRACY_FX), awarded to Prof Karen Douglas, University of Kent, Advisory Board (2021-).
• Global Platform Governance Network, Centre for International Governance Innovation, member (2021-).
• Climate Social Science Network (CSSN), member (2020-); https://www.cssn.org/.

Directorship

• I am non-executive director of Communiflex Ltd trading as JITSUVAX Training, a not-for-profit spinout company created to ensure a lasting impact of the JITSUVAX project through training of health workers in the UK and Europe.