Professor Vian Bakir
Professor in Journalism and Political Communications
Affiliations
Contact info
Position: Professor of Journalism & Political Communication
Email: v.bakir@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382751
Location: Main Arts
Personal website: Academia.edu ResearchGate
Project Websites: DATA-PSST! Intelligence Elites Emotional AI
Current Administrative Responsibilities:
Co-Director of Network for Study of Media and Persuasive Communication.
School of History, Law & Social Science Research Committee (grant leadership)
- Participation in Academic conference
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Virtual Mind the PR Gap 2020: AI, creativity and fake news in a post Covid-19 world.
Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)
9 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Emotional AI Lab: cross-cultural conversations
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
28 Apr 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Emotional AI and Empathic Technologies: Implications of an Ontology of Mediated Emotion, Data Justice Conference 2021
Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)
14 May 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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GUARDINT EU Project. Intelligence, surveillance, and oversight: tracing connections and contestations
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
26 Jan 2022 → 27 Jan 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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International workshop and seminar on (Mediated) Emotion in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
28 Apr 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Keynote: ‘The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences in AI Policymaking: A Personal Journey of Twists and Turns in the Service of Solving ‘Wicked Problems’. Alan Turing Institute Networking Event - AI, Public Policy and Social Sciences and Humanities
Vian Bakir (Keynote/plenary speaker)
23 Sept 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Media, Persuasion and Human Rights, Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference, Bangor, November 2014
Vian Bakir (Organiser)
10 Nov 2014 → 11 Nov 2014Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
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Reviewing grant applications
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
1 Jul 2020 → 31 Jul 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic conference
- Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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DATA-PSST - Seminar 6
Vian Bakir (Organiser)
20 May 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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DATA-PSST - Transparency Today
Vian Bakir (Organiser)
6 Jan 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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DATA-PSST Seminar 5 - Tackling Transparency Beyond the Nation-State
Vian Bakir (Organiser)
31 Mar 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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DATA-PSST seminar 3
Vian Bakir (Organiser)
8 Jul 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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Debating the Technical & Ethical Limits of Secrecy and Privacy, DATAPSST Seminar, University of Sheffield, March 2015
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
24 Mar 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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Ofcom Theory of Change Evaluation Toolkit - training workshop
Vian Bakir (Participant)
30 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
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Visible Mediations of Transparency: Changing Norms & Practices, DATA-PSST! Seminar, King's College London, September 2015
Vian Bakir (Organiser)
10 Sept 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course
- Invited talk
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Facebook’s Data Analytics and Problems for Democracy: Fake News, Dark Ads and a Disinformation Media Ecosystem
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
4 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Fake News & Digital Advertising
Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)
25 Apr 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Impartiality, Accuracy & Truthfulness in a Fake News Era: issues for public accountability of the judiciary
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
8 Mar 2018 → 9 Mar 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
- Oral presentation
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Veillance
Gillian Jein (Speaker), Andrew McStay (Speaker), Vian Bakir (Speaker), Carwyn Edwards (Speaker) & Ronan Devlin (Speaker)
24 Feb 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
- Consultancy
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Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Interim Report.
Vian Bakir (Consultant)
30 Jul 2018Activity: Consultancy
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Interviewed for article evaluating fake news research
Vian Bakir (Consultant)
1 Mar 2018Activity: Consultancy
Opinion Forming in the Digital Age: Fake News, Echo Chambers and Populism - Key Themes, Concerns & Recommendations for European Research and Innovation
Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)
1 Feb 2018 → 25 Oct 2018Activity: Consultancy
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Taking Back Control of Our Personal Data: An ethical impact assessment of personal data storage apps
Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)
21 Jan 2021Activity: Consultancy
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White Paper - GOVERNING PHILOSOPHIES IN TECHNOLOGY POLICY: PERMISSIONLESS INNOVATION VS. THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Gilad Rosner (Consultant)
1 Aug 2021Activity: Consultancy
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Written MPC submissions to UK Fake News Parliamentary Inquiry and wider public discourse
Vian Bakir (Consultant) & Andrew McStay (Consultant)
1 Apr 2017 → 29 Nov 2017Activity: Consultancy
- Other
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'Addressing false information online via provision of authoritative information: Why dialling down emotion is part of the answer', Submission to UK Parliament Online Harms and Disinformation Sub-Committee Inquiry into Misinformation and Trusted Voices, September 2022
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
14 Sept 2022 → 14 Oct 2022Activity: Other
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A humanities-led intervention into responsible and ethical AI
Vian Bakir (Participant)
28 May 2021Activity: Other
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AGAINST OPACITY, OUTRAGE & DECEPTION: Towards an ethical code of conduct for transparent, explainable, civil & informative digital political campaigns. Evidence submitted to House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies.
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
29 Jun 2020Activity: Other
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Advisory Board Member for EU Horizon2020 CSI-COP project
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
1 May 2020 → 30 Apr 2023Activity: Other
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Advisory Board member for European Research Council Starting Grants project, TRUE
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
1 Aug 2022 → 1 Aug 2027Activity: Other
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BU-IIA Funded project: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics & Policing in North Wales: Establishing Citizens’ Perspectives
Bethan Loftus (Contributor), Vian Bakir (Contributor), Andrew McStay (Contributor) & Martina Feilzer (Contributor)
1 Apr 2022 → 31 Mar 2023Activity: Other
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Briefing for Ofcom's Making Sense of Media Working Group
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
29 Mar 2023Activity: Other
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Citation in EU Commissioned study: Disinformation and propaganda – impact on the functioning of the rule of law in the EU and its Member States
Andrew McStay (Contributor) & Vian Bakir (Contributor)
28 Feb 2019Activity: Other
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EPSRC Research Centre Panel Reviewer - Protecting Citizens Online
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
1 Jun 2020 → 22 Jun 2020Activity: Other
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Final Report - Emotional AI - Japan and UK. Final Report on a Conversation between cultures
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
1 Nov 2019Activity: Other
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Interviewed for The National on disinformation, Twitter, and Scottish independence
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
8 Nov 2022Activity: Other
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Journalism post-Snowden: a simple guide to protecting your information & contacts
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Paul Lashmar (Contributor)
1 Jun 2019Activity: Other
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Older People & Digital Literacy
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
10 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Online Media Literacy Strategy Stakeholder meeting
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
26 Jan 2023Activity: Other
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Profiling & Targeting Emotion in Digital Political Campaigns.
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
20 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Provided advice to journalist on political communication and Twitter
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
7 Nov 2022Activity: Other
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Reviewer for Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Jens Christian Skou Fellowship
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
6 Apr 2020 → 16 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Reviewer for Norwegian Research Council. COVID-19 Emergency Call
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
6 Apr 2020 → 15 Apr 2020Activity: Other
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Reviewer: Univ. of Aarhus EU Union Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Programme -Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
29 Mar 2020 → 20 Apr 2020Activity: Other
SSRC/ESRC International workshops on Trust in Democratic Institutions
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
24 Mar 2022 → 31 Mar 2022Activity: Other
Submission to Inquiry on Impact of Social Media on Elections and Electoral Administration - Victoria Parliament, Australia - plus resulting influence
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
24 Aug 2020 → 20 Sept 2021Activity: Other
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Televised Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2023
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
15 Nov 2023 → 20 Jan 2024Activity: Other
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UKRI -AHRC COVID-19 expert peer group reviewer
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
25 Jun 2020 → …Activity: Other
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WORKING GROUP MEMBER: OFCOM Making Sense of Media Research Working Group
Vian Bakir (Member)
1 Sept 2022 → 1 Sept 2023Activity: Other
- Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
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oral evidence on user targeting to House of Commons Fake News Inquiry
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
23 Jan 2018Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
- Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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10th News Assembly: Panel on Journalism post-Snowden
Vian Bakir (Interviewee)
26 Oct 2015 → 27 Oct 2015Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
Article in Hamodia on Fake News
Vian Bakir (Interviewee)
23 Nov 2021Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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COVID-19: How can we communicate risk in a post-truth world?
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
26 Oct 2020Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Emotional AI & disinformation.
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
16 Jul 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Emotional AI and Civil Rights: The Salutary Case of Facebook
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
4 Aug 2020Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Empathic Media, Emotional AI, and the Optimization of Disinformation
Vian Bakir (Speaker) & Andrew McStay (Speaker)
23 Apr 2021 → 28 Apr 2021Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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FAKE NEWS: INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR VIAN BAKIR
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
6 May 2022Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
Interview with Prof Vian Bakir - Solutions to Global Misinformation
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
1 Oct 2021Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Regulating Digital Campaigning: What is to be Done?
Vian Bakir (Participant) & Andrew McStay (Participant)
29 Nov 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
SURVEILLING THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF SUPERVISORS: DEMOCRATIC PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS.
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
21 Nov 2018 → 23 Nov 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Tackling Grand Challenges in Society - AI & Democracy
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
17 Dec 2019 → 18 Dec 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Talk on CitizenFour
Vian Bakir (Interviewee)
10 Jan 2015Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Weaponisation of Politics & Civic Discourse
Vian Bakir (Speaker)
8 Jul 2019 → 12 Jul 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Workshop on emotional AI
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Organiser)
9 Sept 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
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reviewer AHRC COVID-19 call
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
1 Aug 2020 → 31 Aug 2020Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
- Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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'Strategic political communication': the Bush administration torture-intelligence policy and the US Senate Intelligence Committee report
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
17 Dec 2014Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
CULTURE CHANGE: Incentivise political campaigners to run civil and informative election campaigns
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
2 Aug 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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From torture to de-radicalisation: towards public accountability of secret policies designed to prevent terrorism
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
4 Oct 2016Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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I am not worried about Russia. I'm concerned about the misuse of people's feelings. Vecer
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
22 Dec 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Parliamentary submission: Datafied Bearbaiting and Emotional AI: Anticipating the Quantified Jeremy Kyle Show. Submission to DCMS Committee Inquiry into Reality TV
Vian Bakir (Contributor) & Andrew McStay (Contributor)
1 Jun 2019 → 1 Sept 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Quoted in al-Jazeera article: Mendhai, Shafik. 2016 "Snooping, data leaks and the threat to online privacy". AL-Jazeera English, December 1.
Vian Bakir (Interviewee)
1 Dec 2016Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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SVT national radio
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
25 Nov 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Telltale signs of deceitful public relations campaign
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
28 Nov 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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What if we knew when people were lying?
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
25 Mar 2019Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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‘Fake news’ to get worse says Bangor University media expert. Daily Post, 5 Sep 2018
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
5 Sept 2018Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
- Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement
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external consultant for CAGE
Vian Bakir (Interviewee)
1 Aug 2015 → 1 Dec 2016Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement
- Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
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Veillance
Gillian Jein (Host), Ronan Devlin (Organiser), Andrew McStay (Member), Vian Bakir (Member), Ant Dickinson (Contributor), Michael Fluekiger (Contributor) & Carwyn Edwards (Contributor)
24 Feb 2017 → 12 Mar 2017Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
- Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Information Rights research network
Vian Bakir (Member)
1 Jun 2015 → 1 Jan 2020Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Making Sense of Media Working Group
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
24 May 2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Ofcom Making Sense of Media Working Group
Vian Bakir (Member)
1 Nov 2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
- Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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AHRC reviewer -
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
11 Nov 2019Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants application - referee
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
12 Oct 2016Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Consultant for Univ.of Liverpool. Revalidation of MA Political Communication degree.
Vian Bakir (Member)
1 Sept 2015Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC - Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) Social Science Program with US Department of Defense
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
1 Oct 2023 → 28 Feb 2024Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC National Capability in Behavioural Research Workshop
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
28 Apr 2022Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC Peer Review College member
Vian Bakir (Member)
28 Sept 2022 → 28 Sept 2028Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC reviewer
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
1 May 2017Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC reviewer for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
30 Aug 2018Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC reviewer for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
9 Aug 2018Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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ESRC reviewer for for TRUST AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE large grants call
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
9 Aug 2018Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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EU MCFA Fellowships reviewer
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
14 Oct 2023 → 1 Dec 2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Editorial Board Member
Vian Bakir (Member)
1 Jan 2021 → 1 Jan 2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Expert reviewer for European Research Agency for evaluations of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) 2022
Vian Bakir (Reviewer)
7 Oct 2022 → 20 Jan 2023Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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Expert reviewer, Rapporteur and Final Panel member for Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON). Reshaping democracies (HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01)
Vian Bakir (Contributor)
14 May 2022 → 20 Jul 2022Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
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External Examiner PhD viva; Heather Brooke
Vian Bakir (Examiner)
8 Jun 2016Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee