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26 Sep 2025
ADAC.io Consortium Meeting: Setting priorities for the final year
15 May 2025
Beyond Operation Doppelgänger: A Capability Assessment of the Social Design Agency
9 May 2025
Presentation of recent research at King's College, UK
28 Apr 2025
Social identities and democratic vulnerabilities: Learning from examples of targeted disinformation
Elsa Hedling, affiliated with PDRI, recently published a report on social identities and democratic vulnerabilities.
14 Mar 2025
PDRI at ISA in Chicago
The research team from the Psychological Defence Research Institute was well represented at the 66th annual convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), held under th...
14 Mar 2025
Researcher Profile: Rolf Fredheim
Affiliated with the Psychological Defence Research Institute, Rolf Fredheim explores the use of AI to detect harmful and illegal content on social media.
7 Feb 2025
Attribution of Information Influence Operations
30 Jan 2025
Critical interaction: Intelligence analysis, Communication, and Societal resilience
24 Jan 2025
Resarcher Profile: Elsa Hedling
Elsa Hedling is an affiliated researcher at the Psychological Defence Research Institute at Lund University, where she contributes to advance research on disinformation and hybrid ...
6 Dec 2024
Exploitation of psychological processes in information influence operations: Insights from cognitive science
19 Nov 2024
Education as a countermeasure against disinformation
13 Nov 2024
Researcher Profile: Hilkka Grahn
During the fall of 2024, Hilkka Grahn is a visiting researcher at the Psychological Defence Research Institute (PDRI) at Lund University. Hilkka is a postdoctoral researcher (KILPI...
8 Nov 2024
North Macedonia's response to hybrid threats and malign foreign influence and interference
29 Oct 2024
New report on concepts and principles of psychological defence
17 Oct 2024
Online information interference in 2024 elections for the European Parliament
27 Sep 2024
Disinformation in the Japanese Context
27 Sep 2024
Research Conference in Psychological Defence
Focusing on the intersection of research and practice, the second annual research conference on psychological defence was held in Lund on 24-25 September 2024.
20 Sep 2024
EU Days in Lund: Debate on disinformation
At EU Days in Lund on 17 September, members of the Psychological Defence Research Institute, together with a representative of the Swedish Defence University, debated disinformatio...
13 Jun 2024
Interventions by PDRI-members at NATOs conference on Strategic Communication
13 Jun 2024
Podcast: The fight for the truth ahead of the EU elections.