Lauren Avis

Political Science MA Student at McGill's Institute for the Study of International Development. Graduated UCL SSEES with a first class in History, Politics, and Economics. I wrote my dissertation on Russian disinformation and how narratives are shaped based on target audience and larger geopolitical objectives. I plan to focus my thesis on analysis of methods in which the Western left are targeted by planned disinformation schemes.

I am further interested by the extent of agency one has over their beliefs and understandings of the world in a geopolitical context. This extends to how soft power is used and the role of geopolitical storytelling in creating and projecting a state's foreign policy interests