Recognition & press
Awards, honours & coverage
Coverage in the media, and awards and honours as a journalist and as a researcher.
In the media
- The researcher analysing far-right rhetoric on Facebook
This Cambridge Life profile on the move from a decade in journalism to research, and the award-nominated Guardian investigation into far-right Facebook networks.
- »Please, men, protect us«: A new generation of right-wing women is using social media to rebel
Interviewed for this feature in Politiken (Denmark) on right-wing women and social media. Original Danish headline: »Please, mænd, beskyt os«: En ny generation af kvinder på højrefløjen bruger sociale medier til at gøre oprør.
Awards & honours
- European Press Prize — Laureate, Innovation category
Named a Laureate (2026 shortlist, Innovation category), with Guardian colleagues, for a year-long investigation tracing far-right radicalisation across a network of UK Facebook groups, built on analysis of 51,000 posts.
- Huw Price Prize
Best overall performance in the MPhil in Ethics of AI, Data, and Algorithms. Degree awarded with Distinction.
- Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarship
Fully funded doctoral scholarship supporting the PhD at Cambridge Digital Humanities.
- ESET Award for Information Security Journalism — Winner, Brazil
For reporting on the cybersecurity debate around Brazil's electronic voting machines ahead of the 2018 election.
- Prêmio Folha — Winner
For an investigation into the personal-data trail internet users leave behind. Twice more shortlisted, for coverage of ChatGPT (2023) and of platform terms of service (2017).
Enquiries
Speaking & advisory enquiries
For keynotes, panels, workshops, training, or advisory work — in English or Portuguese — email me with dates, audience, and format.
Email hello@raphaelhernandes.com
Or reach me on LinkedIn.