Professor Andrew Chadwick

For the last 27 years Andrew Chadwick has published widely and influentially on how the internet and digital technologies have reshaped politics, society and media. Since 2017 he has worked in Loughborough’s Department of Communication and Media, where he has conducted pioneering research into why people share misinformation and disinformation online and how digital media are reshaping social norms of public communication across all levels of media systems. Andrew also led the Everyday Misinformation Project, a large-scale programme of research funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the RSA, Andrew is listed in the Stanford University/Elsevier Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide, which is ranked on global citations of academics’ research since 1788.

His media engagement includes BBC Radio Four’s Thinking Allowed, The Moral Maze, The World at One, and a recent BBC documentary on Elon Musk and disinformation. He has written for The Independent, the Washington Post, the Times Higher, the Daily Mail, and The Conversation. News organizations in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, India, Finland, Italy, Germany, Japan, Norway, Portugal, and Spain, among other countries, have covered his research, including in outlets such as The Times, BBC News, The Guardian, The Washington Post, ITV News, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CNN, CBC News, The Independent, Bloomberg News, ABC News, The Telegraph, New Scientist, First Draft, Campaign, New Statesman, the Daily Mail, and Stylist.