GATE (Big Data for Smart Society) Institute, Sofia University
Sofia, Bulgaria

Dr. Keith Peter Kiely is an experienced researcher and Research Group Lead at the GATE institute. Kiely is currently the scientific coordinator of the Bulgarian-Romanian Observatory of Digital Media (BROD). He has over 9 years of experience in data analysis and research in both industry and academia. He holds a MA in international studies from the University of Limerick and a Ph.D. from Queen’s University Belfast in Politics with a thesis in the area of United States foreign policy discourse and national identity. His research interests include policy formation and identity, misinformation and propaganda, identity politics, discourse analysis and practices, and political philosophy.