Research Interests

I am interested in the role played by technology within government bureaucracies, as well as in the changing relationship between citizens and the state.

Relevant projects

International Public Policy Observatory (www.covidandsociety.com)

Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society https://www.qub.ac.uk/ecit/Education/LINCS/

Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions https://www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI/mitchell-institute/Study/linas/

MacCarthaigh, M., & McKeown, C. (2021). A Political Science Perspective on Fake News. In T. Chakraborty, S. Kumar, C. Long, & D. Padmanabhan (Eds.), Data Science for Fake News: Surveys and Perspectives (Vol. 42, pp. 233-243).

Affiliations

Associate Fellow at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) at QUB