{"id":1134,"date":"2026-10-08T12:19:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/?page_id=1134"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:19:33","slug":"len-ford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/len-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Len Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1135 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/files\/2026\/10\/1000014511.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">Len is a SEDarc-funded PhD researcher in Psychology at the University of Kent, where he previously completed his BSc and MSc in Psychology. His broader research interests include misinformation, conspiracy beliefs and political psychology, particularly how social identity, ideology and motivated reasoning influence people&#8217;s beliefs and attitudes. His PhD focuses on diet-related misinformation, exploring how misleading narratives surrounding meat consumption, plant-based diets, health and environmental sustainability spread online and influence dietary beliefs and behaviours. He is particularly interested in the psychological mechanisms that make such misinformation persuasive and the development of interventions to counter its influence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Len is a SEDarc-funded PhD researcher in Psychology at the University of Kent, where he previously completed his BSc and MSc in Psychology. His broader research interests include misinformation, conspiracy beliefs and political psychology, particularly how social identity, ideology and motivated reasoning influence people&#8217;s beliefs and attitudes. His PhD focuses on diet-related misinformation, exploring how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84686,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/shark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}