Mina Mahmoudzadeh

Mina Mahmoudzadeh

Research Assistant

International Inequalities Institute

Languages
English, Persian
Key Expertise
Wealth Inequality, Intergenerational Wealth Transfers

About me

I have a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Inequalities and Social Science. I worked as a policy analyst for 4 years in various government departments in the area of public health and health protection (mainly working on foodborne disease and the COVID-19 vaccine programme).

Recent Publications

  • Trevisan, F., Vaughan, M. & Vromen, A. (2025). Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy. University of Michigan Press. 
  • Vaughan, M. & Schieferdecker, D. (2025), 'Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race”', International Journal of Communication, 19 (1), 348-369 
  • Vaughan, M., & Kerr, S. (2025). Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication. Visual Communication.
  • Vaughan, M., Gruber, J. B., & Langer, A. I. (2025). The tension between connective action and platformisation: Disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze. New Media & Society, 27(2), 632-654.