Director
Heidi Tworek
emailheidi.tworek@ubc.ca
Heidi Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of History and Public Policy at the UBC, where she directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI). Her work examines history and policy around communications, particularly the effects of new media technologies on democracy. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation as well as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Canada's New College of Scholars, Artists, and Scientists....Read more
Assistant Director
Chris Tenove
emailcjtenove@mail.ubc.ca
Chris Tenove is a Research Associate and Instructor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Assistant Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI). He has held teaching and research positions in UBC’s Political Science department and Global Reporting Ce...Read more
Affiliate Faculty
Alex Yu-Ting Lin
Alex Yu-Ting Lin is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, and a nonresidential affiliated faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s International Security Center.
Veena Sriram
Veena Sriram is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Global Health Policy, with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the School of Population and Public Health.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dexter Fergie
Dexter Fergie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dexter Fergie is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the UBC History Department and with CSDI. He is a US and global historian, specializing in the history of international organizations, American foreign relations, and infrastructure.
Hossein Azarpanah
Hossein Azarpanah
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hossein is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, where he studies how digital communication platforms shape public discourse and influence collective behavior in polarized or crisis-driven contexts as part of the Bridge Research Consortium....Read more
Spencer Mckay
Spencer Mckay
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Spencer McKay is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, where he is working on platform governance in elections.
Affiliate Researcher
Robert Gorwa
Robert Gorwa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center, and a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He studies the politics of technology policy, with a special interest in platform governance and emerging socio-technical regulatory arrangements in the ...Read more