Doc. PhDr. Michal Vašečka, PhD. is sociologist by background and public intellectual by choice. Michal serves as a program director of the Bratislava Policy Institute in Bratislava since 2017, as an Associate Professor he operates at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts since 2015. Michal studied at the Comenius University in Bratislava and at the Masaryk University in Brno. He focuses his interests on issues of ethnicity, race, and migration studies, as well as populism, extremism, antisemitism, and social movements.
Dr Václav Štětka is Reader in Comparative Political Communication at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, where he has been working since 2016. Previously he has held research and academic posts at Masaryk University in Brno, Charles University in Prague, and the University of Oxford. His current research interests encompass political communication in the digital environment, the dissemination and impact of mis/disinformation, and the relationship between media and democracy in post-transition countries.
Dominika Kasprowicz is an academic researcher and international projects' manager, PhD (Degree) in Political Science (2010), Associate Professor at the Jagiellonian University (Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication), holder of the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management, graduee of the IVLP programme, since 2016 CEO of the Villa Decius, Poland - cultural institution, residency for artists and scholars at risk, awarded with a title of Ambassador of Multiculralism by a City of Krakow (2023). Member of several executive boards and expert