Michael Vaughan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute. He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney on the contentious politics of international tax, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin with a focus on far-right digital communication. His research interests include digital political participation, far-right politics and the communicative dimension of mobilisation around economic inequality.