Gwenaëlle Bauvois

Gwenaëlle Bauvois currently works in the Horizon research consortium 'Analysis and Responses to Extremist Narratives' (ARENAS). This four-year project aims to characterise, measure, and understand the role of extremist narratives that have an impact on the political and social spheres. The project is based at the Faculty of Arts, Aleksanteri Institute (Finnish Centre for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies), at the Faculty of Arts (Humanistinen tiedekunta), University of Helsinki.

She is also affiliated at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN) based at the Swedish School of Social Sciences (Soc&kom, 2015 →) and at INEQ - the Helsinki Inequality Initiative, University of Helsinki (2020→). She's also an active member of the Helsinki Research Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation HEPP.

She has been a visiting researcher at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Science (2023) to study conspiracy talk in the life of ordinary citizens; and at the Australian National University School of Sociology (2016).

Her research topics include extremism, right-wing populism and the far right; conspiracies (listed by the University of Helsinki as an expert); countermedia; post-truth politics; anti-immigration and anti-gender mouvements.