Navigating the Digital World in a Time of Misinformation

Jim is the founding director of the LSE Faith Centre and its Religion and Global Society Research Unit. He leads the team in the centre’s mission to promote religious literacy and interfaith leadership through student programmes and global engagement, along with research into the role of religion in world affairs. He is a Professor in Practice in the Department of International Relations and an affiliated faculty member at the Department for International Development. He has published a number of books including Baudrillard and Theology (2012), Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations (2018), A Christian Theology of Chaplaincy (2018), Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions (2018) and Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict (2019). He was educated at Cambridge University and ordained priest in the Church of England in 2008 within which he is now a canon of Chichester Cathedral.

Zahed Amanullah is an experienced British-American writer, presenter, and researcher on countering targeted hate and extremism worldwide, with 30 years of experience in interfaith and counterextremism activism and analysis of Muslim communities worldwide. At ISD, he has pioneered research on the use of counter narratives to stem recruitment and propaganda by extremist groups in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He has testified to the UK and EU parliaments and has been featured in leading broadcast, print, and audio media. He is formerly Director of the Concordia Forum (2011-2022), a global Muslim leadership network, and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the University of Bath.

Armine Ishkanian is a Professor in the Department of Social Policy and the Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme at the International Inequalities Institute. She also co-convenes the Politics of Inequality research programme at the International Inequalities Institute. Armine’s research examines the relationship between civil society, democracy, development, and social transformation. She has examined how civil society organisations and social movements engage in policy processes and transformative politics in a number of countries including Armenia, Egypt, Greece, Russia, Turkey, and the UK. 

Aneira is the Senior Curriculum Developer for Facing History and Ourselves, and is responsible for creating new educational resources and for supporting the training of teachers. Her recent remit has involved researching and writing a unit on media literacy to help students critically engage with mass media and the information landscape. Aneira has worked in education since 2010; her roles have included that of a secondary school English teacher, an examiner, a facilitator and an educational consultant.