Maxim Alyukov

Maxim Alyukov is a postdoctoral fellow at King’s Russia Institute (King’s College London) and a researcher with Public Sociology Laboratory (St. Petersburg). His research focuses on media, political communication, and political cognition in autocracies with a particular focus on Russia. He relies on qualitative and quantitative methods to explore how citizens make sense of the political world in authoritarian environments and in new hybrid media systems. Maxim’s research appeared in a number of disciplinary and area studies journals, such as Politics, Nature Human Behaviour, Qualitative Psychology, Europe-Asia Studies, and others.