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DrOlga Boichak

Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Dr Boichak's research interests include:

* Digital sovereignty and weaponisation of communication infrastructure in wars;
* Digital war, specifically the role of media, data, and artificial intelligence in contemporary military conflicts;
* Digital activism, with a focus on analysing discourses and interactions within online networks/communities;
* Networked humanitarianism and the role of crowds in environmental and geopolitical crises;
* Development of critical and innovative computational methods and approaches.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Fostering digital sovereignty and networked resilience in Australia
    Westpac Scholars Limited1 Jan 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Boichak O
  • GRANT
    Learning the meso-scale organization of complex networks
    Australian Research Council (ARC)10 Dec 2024 - 9 Dec 2027
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  • GRANT
    Digital sovereignty and colonialisms in the Russian-Ukrainian war
    Australian Research Council (ARC)15 Apr 2024 - 30 Jun 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Boichak O
  • GRANT
    Cracking the Code: AI Gender Bias in the Asia Pacific
    DVC Research1 Aug 2022
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Narratives of volunteering and social change in wartime Ukraine
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Boichak O
  • GRANT
    Emerging online safety issues: co-creating social media education with young people
    The eSafety Commissioner1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant: