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[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”on” transparent_background=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”2″ prev_background_color=”#ffffff” next_background_color=”#ffffff”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=”Left Nav Sidebar” area=”et_pb_widget_area_1″ orientation=”left” remove_border=”on” background_layout=”light” module_id=”left-nav-menu” show_border=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ specialty_columns=”2″][et_pb_row_inner admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column_inner type=”4_4″ saved_specialty_column_type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Title” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” module_alignment=”left” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.17.6″]<\/p>\n

People<\/h1>\n

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The Core Team<\/h3>\n

The University of Manchester is the Host Institution for the project and the DiCED core team combine expertise in the fields of Political Science, Political Communication, Survey and Social Media Data Collection, Management and Analysis, and Research Software Engineering.<\/p>\n

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Rachel Gibson joined the University of Manchester as Professor of Politics in the Institute for Social Change December 2007. In 2016 she was appointed as Director of the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research.<\/p>\n

She had previously served as Professor of New Media Studies at the University of Leicester and a lecturer in politics at the University of Salford. She completed her PhD thesis on the rise of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe in the late 20th century at Texas A&M University in the US. She has held visiting fellowships at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), the Australian National University (ANU), and the Autonomous University in Barcelona (AUB).<\/p>\n

Rachel has led several projects examining the impact of the Internet on political parties, campaigns and voters funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Australian Research Council (ARC). She has been a PI\/Co-I on the Australian Election Study since 2001 and the Australian Candidate Study.<\/p>\n

She developed and managed the internet component of the 2015 British Election Study (iBES) which merged survey responses with social media tracking data. She was co-editor of the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (2011-16) and is a member of editorial boards of Political Studies, the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Information Polity and the Australian Journal of Political Science.<\/p>\n

She is a member of the Peer Review College of the ESRC and regularly reviews for the leading journals in the field and major national and international funding bodies.<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item _builder_version=”3.17.6″ title=”Esmeralda Bon”]<\/p>\n

Esmeralda Bon is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, based in the Cathie Marsh Institute. She works for the project \u2018Digital Campaigning and Electoral Democracy\u2019 (DiCED), a new comparative project for the study of the drivers and effects of digital campaigning in 5 countries and 7 national elections during the period 2020-2023. She has recently obtained her PhD at the University of Nottingham, School of Politics and International Relations. Her PhD thesis focused on UK MP communication during the EU referendum, addressing the relationship between representation and the dynamics, frequency, and content of their political communication.<\/p>\n

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Marta Cantijoch is a Lecturer in Politics at The University of Manchester since 2014. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2013). Marta has developed an extensive portfolio of research in the fields of political participation, political communication, elections and voting, and the effects of digital media. She is particularly interested in understanding how citizens use the internet to engage in politics and develop their citizenship skills. Her most recent research project was a collaboration with the BBC in a study of political knowledge acquisition and online media consumption habits among people from different social backgrounds. Her work has been published in top tier journals, including The Journal of Politics, Political Communication and The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. She is also the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behaviour and Public Opinion (2018).<\/p>\n

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Jahandar Musayev is a DiCED Software Engineer. Graduated as a Computer Systems Engineer from the University of Manchester in 2018, he works as a Senior Software Engineer at Booking.com.<\/p>\n

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Peter Smyth is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, based in the Cathie Marsh Institute. He has spent 35 years working in IT at various large and small commercial organisations before taking an MSc in Big Data Analytics at Sheffield Hallam University and moving into academia. In his previous roles he used any convenient programming environment to hand to solve problems. Now he teaches a variety of programming languages to help others to do the same.<\/p>\n

He is a qualified Data and Software Carpentry instructor.<\/p>\n

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Niamh Cashell is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester affiliated to the DiCED project. She previously studied for a BA in Social Sciences at Manchester where she was awarded the McKenzie Prize for the most originality and creativity in a piece of independent research. This was for her dissertation comparing interactivity between MPs and the public on Facebook and Twitter. She was then awarded a scholarship to study an MSc in Political Communication at the University of Glasgow. <\/p>\n

Niamh\u2019s research will focus on the role of the visual in the spread of misinformation on social media. Her research will explore methodologies for analysing the visual by looking at the production, consumption and reproduction of images online. <\/p>\n

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