Colin Powers

Biography

Colin Powers is a PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies. His research interests include governmentality within digital communities, mis/disinformation online, and far-right digital community dynamics. He holds an MA in International Relations and Security Studies from King's College London and a BSEcon in Security Studies from Aberystwyth University.

Colin comes to the War Studies department from a private intelligence background. He has ten years of experience in private risk intelligence, providing global-level threat and risk intelligence on emerging events through open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis.

Research Interests

• Governmentality in Digital Environments
• Extremist Social Media Groups
• Digital Communication
• Mis/Disinformation
• Governance
• Far-Right Ideology
• OSINT

Thesis

In far-right digital communities, how is knowledge governed?

Supervisors

• Dr Pablo De Orellana
• Dr Nicholas Michelsen