Ayala Panievsky
Dr.
Ayala
Panievsky
Presidential Fellow at City University of London and Research Associate at Molad
UK

Dr. Ayala Panievsky is a Presidential Fellow at City University of London and a Research Associate at the Centre for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy (Molad). She specialises in media under attack, authoritarian populism, and democratic backsliding. Her research was published in top academic journals and featured in popular media like the BBC and The News Agents. She holds a PhD from the Sociology Department at Cambridge University. Her work received the ICA Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2024, the 2023 IJPP Best Article of the Year Award, and the Gates-Cambridge Scholarship Award. Her first book, ‘The New Censorship’ (Footnote Press), will be out this year.

Academia, NGOs