Thea Virginia McConnell

Summary

Thea is a research assistant at NUPI in the Research group for Security and Defence. 

She has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Oslo and has previously worked as a project assistant at NIFU. Her master’s thesis examined hybrid threats and Russian information operations by using machine learning techniques and quantitative text analysis to study Russian narratives online. 

Her interests include security policy, influence operations, autocratic regimes, and quantitative methods.