Dr Natalie-Anne Hall
(she/her)
Teams and roles for Natalie-Anne Hall
Lecturer
Overview
I joined Cardiff as a Lecturer in Social Sciences in March 2024. My work spans sociology, criminology, communication and media studies, and political science. In particular, I am concerned with people's everyday engagement with contentious and harmful politics online. Before working at Cardiff, I was postdoctoral researcher on the Everyday Misinformation Project at the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C), Loughborough University.
My debut monograph, 'Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism' (Lexington Books), is based on my doctoral research into how and why some people became avidly engaged in support for Brexit and surrounding right-wing politics in the post-EU-referendum period, and the social and political consequences of this. It was shortlisted for the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.
I am particularly interested in what interpretive, close-up, qualitative methods can bring to the study of digital social and political life. My research is concerned with the transnational dynamic of online reactionary right political engagement and mis/disinformation, and I take a particular interest in the Japanese context. I am also a public-facing researcher with a strong motivation to impact policy and society with my research findings. I have been interviewed live on BBC Radio Wales, and for the Guardian.
Before my career in academia, I worked as a research officer at HM Inspectorate of Prisons, an arms-length body that inspects places of detention in England and Wales.
I am a Japanese speaker, and a learner of Mandarin Chinese (intermediate) and Spanish (intermediate).
Publication
2025
- Saveliev, I. and Hall, N. eds. 2025. Migration, Aging, and Japan's Sustainable Society. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. Routledge.
- Hall, N. 2025. Understanding online racism in Japan in global and local context. In: Saveliev, I. ed. Migration, Aging, and Japan's Sustainable Society. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series Routledge
- Hall, N. 2025. Conclusion: Japan’s multi-ethnic future. In: Saveliev, I. and Hall, N. eds. Migration, Aging, and Japan's Sustainable Society. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series Routledge
2024
- Hall, N. 2024. From Brexit to Covid-19: Counter-politics and far-right politicisation on social media. In: Tyler, K., Banducci, S. A. and Degnen, C. eds. Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times: Fractured Lives in Britain. Routledge
- Lawson, B. T., Chadwick, A., Hall, N. and Vaccari, C. 2024. The trustworthiness of peers and public discourse: exploring how people navigate numerical dis/misinformation on personal messaging platforms. Information, Communication and Society (10.1080/1369118X.2024.2400141)
- Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C. and Hall, N. 2024. What explains the spread of misinformation in online personal messaging networks? Exploring the role of conflict avoidance. Digital Journalism 12(5), pp. 574-593. (10.1080/21670811.2023.2206038)
- Hall, N., Chadwick, A. and Vaccari, C. 2024. Online misinformation and everyday ontological narratives of social distinction. Media, Culture and Society 46(3), pp. 572-590. (10.1177/01634437231211678)
2023
- Hall, N. 2023. Brexit, Facebook, and transnational right-wing populism. Discourse, Power and Society. Lexington Books.
- Hall, N. 2023. Trajectories towards political engagement on Facebook around Brexit: beyond affordances for understanding racist and right-wing populist mobilisations online. Sociology 57(3), pp. 569-585. (10.1177/00380385221104012)
- Chadwick, A., Hall, N. and Vaccari, C. 2023. Misinformation rules!? Could "group rules" reduce misinformation in online personal messaging?. New Media and Society, article number: 14614448231172964. (10.1177/14614448231172964)
2022
- Hall, N. 2022. Understanding Brexit on Facebook: Developing close-up, qualitative methodologies for social media research. Sociological Research Online 27(3), pp. 707-723. (10.1177/13607804211037356)
- Hall, N. 2022. RT's appeal to British audiences on Facebook: outsider in an untrustworthy media environment. Participations 19(1), pp. 26-45.
- Hall, N. 2022. RT UK’s Facebook audiences’ interpretation of Russia’s strategic narrative of the Syrian conflict. Digital War 3(1-3), pp. 67–77. (10.1057/s42984-022-00058-1)
Articles
- Lawson, B. T., Chadwick, A., Hall, N. and Vaccari, C. 2024. The trustworthiness of peers and public discourse: exploring how people navigate numerical dis/misinformation on personal messaging platforms. Information, Communication and Society (10.1080/1369118X.2024.2400141)
- Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C. and Hall, N. 2024. What explains the spread of misinformation in online personal messaging networks? Exploring the role of conflict avoidance. Digital Journalism 12(5), pp. 574-593. (10.1080/21670811.2023.2206038)
- Hall, N., Chadwick, A. and Vaccari, C. 2024. Online misinformation and everyday ontological narratives of social distinction. Media, Culture and Society 46(3), pp. 572-590. (10.1177/01634437231211678)
- Hall, N. 2023. Trajectories towards political engagement on Facebook around Brexit: beyond affordances for understanding racist and right-wing populist mobilisations online. Sociology 57(3), pp. 569-585. (10.1177/00380385221104012)
- Chadwick, A., Hall, N. and Vaccari, C. 2023. Misinformation rules!? Could "group rules" reduce misinformation in online personal messaging?. New Media and Society, article number: 14614448231172964. (10.1177/14614448231172964)
- Hall, N. 2022. Understanding Brexit on Facebook: Developing close-up, qualitative methodologies for social media research. Sociological Research Online 27(3), pp. 707-723. (10.1177/13607804211037356)
- Hall, N. 2022. RT's appeal to British audiences on Facebook: outsider in an untrustworthy media environment. Participations 19(1), pp. 26-45.
- Hall, N. 2022. RT UK’s Facebook audiences’ interpretation of Russia’s strategic narrative of the Syrian conflict. Digital War 3(1-3), pp. 67–77. (10.1057/s42984-022-00058-1)
Book sections
- Hall, N. 2025. Understanding online racism in Japan in global and local context. In: Saveliev, I. ed. Migration, Aging, and Japan's Sustainable Society. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series Routledge
- Hall, N. 2025. Conclusion: Japan’s multi-ethnic future. In: Saveliev, I. and Hall, N. eds. Migration, Aging, and Japan's Sustainable Society. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series Routledge
- Hall, N. 2024. From Brexit to Covid-19: Counter-politics and far-right politicisation on social media. In: Tyler, K., Banducci, S. A. and Degnen, C. eds. Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in Brexit Pandemic Times: Fractured Lives in Britain. Routledge
Books
- Saveliev, I. and Hall, N. eds. 2025. Migration, Aging, and Japan's Sustainable Society. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. Routledge.
- Hall, N. 2023. Brexit, Facebook, and transnational right-wing populism. Discourse, Power and Society. Lexington Books.
Research
My research is concerned with the transnational dynamic of online reactionary right political engagement and mis/disinformation. I am particularly interested in what interpretive, close-up, qualitative methods can bring to the study of digital social and political life. As well as English-speaking contexts, I take a particular interest in the Japanese context.
I am a member of CIRAF - Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Anti-Racism and the Far Right.
Teaching
I teach on the following modules:
Social Research Methods (Qualitative)
Offending and Victimisation
Becoming a Social Scientist
Contemporary Inequalities
Digital Research Methods
Theories of Crime and Punishment
Key Ideas in Social Science
Criminological Inquiries
Crime in the Digital World (PGT)
Biography
Honours and awards
Shortlisted: British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2024, for 'Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism' (Lexington Books).
Shortlisted: Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Doctoral Research of the Year Award 2022.
Highly Commended: University of Manchester Sociology Public Engagement Award 2020, for Humanitas Brew event 'Narratives of Facebook Brexiteers'.
Professional memberships
British Sociological Association (BSA)
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
European Communication, Research and Education Association (ECREA)
European Sociological Association (ESA)
Academic positions
Project Affiliate, (Mis)Translating Deceit: Disinformation as a Translingual, Discursive Dynamic, University of Manchester and Loughborough University (2024-present)
Research Associate, the Everyday Misinformation Project, Loughborough University (2021-2024)
Research Associate, Dialogue About Radicalisation and Equality (DARE), University of Manchester (2021)
Consultant, Reframing Russia for the Global Media Sphere: From Cold War to Information War, University of Manchester/Open University (2020)
Speaking engagements
SMIDGE Project Open Webinar: Understanding and Countering Far-Right Extremism in the EU and the Balkans, March 2024
Committees and reviewing
I am a member of SOCSI's Research Ethics Comittee (SREC).
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
- Social Media
- Digital Political Communication
- Right-wing Politics
- Misinformation