Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi
Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Department (Education)
Interests and expertise: global communication; comparative journalism; digital activism; collective memory; popular culture; media and war; Middle East and North Africa
Dr Asif Ali Akhtar
番茄社区 Fellow
Interests and expertise: media anthropology; histories of communication technologies and regulations; postcolonial media systems; democratisation of media and political discourses; surveillance and data privacy; governance systems and media policy frameworks
Dr Nick Anstead
Associate Professor
Interests and expertise: Campaigning; Citizenship; eCampaigning; ePolitics; elections; internet; new media; political participation; political parties
Professor Shakuntala Banaji
Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change
Interests and expertise: Bollywood; Hindi cinema; South Asia; audiences; children; creativity; film studies; international media; media education; media literacy; misinformation and disinformation; online participation; social media, toxic speech and hate speech; youth civic participation
Professor Charlie Beckett
Professor of Practice, Director of Polis
Interests and expertise: artificial intelligence (AI); broadcasting; digital; emotions; ethics; future of news; governance; international media; journalism; media economics; networked journalism; newspapers; social media; start-ups; terror reporting; US media; WikiLeaks
Professor Bart Cammaerts
Professor of Politics and Communication
Interests and expertise: media strategies of activists; representations of protest; alternative media; power and participation; anti-fascism
Professor Lilie Chouliaraki
Chair in Media and Communications
Interests and expertise: corporate communication and branding; humanitarian communication; media ethics; public sphere and civil action; media representations of suffering and violence
Professor Nick Couldry
Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory
Interests and expertise: media and data ethics; media audiences; media and platform power; reality media; social theory; sociology of culture; voice and listening
Dr Simidele Dosekun
Assistant Professor
Interests and expertise: gender and media; race and ethnicity; Africa; consumer and popular cultures; representation; globalisation; feminist theory; qualitative research methodologies; knowledge politics
Professor Lee Edwards
Professor of Strategic Communications and Public Engagement
Interests and expertise: critical approaches to strategic communication and public relations; postcolonial theory, critical race theory, intersectionality and public relations; PR as a professional field; promotional industries and cultures; strategic communications, public engagement and democracy; copyright policy and public engagement
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan
Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Department (Research)
Interests and expertise: communication rights and technologies; data profiling; surveillance; privacy; data and discrimination; democratic communication; digital inclusion; media justice; public participation in comms/tech policy
Dr Craig Gent Craig is joining us from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. Formerly a director at Novara media, he works on digital technology and informational capitalism.
Professor Myria Georgiou
Professor of Media and Communications, Head of Department
Interests and expertise: audience research; diaspora; migration and the media; identity and the media; media and the city; transnational communities and networks
Professor Ellen Helsper
Professor of Digital Inequalities
Interests and expertise: digital inequalities; information and communication technologies (ICTs); interpersonal mediated communication; media and everyday life; methodologies in media and communications research
Dr César Jiménez-Martínez
Assistant Professor
Interests and expertise: media and the nation; nation branding; public diplomacy; soft power; protests and contestation; promotional cultures; branding; Latin America; visibility
Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE
Professor of Social Psychology
Interests and expertise: media and everyday life; media audiences; children and digital media; media literacy; children’s rights in the digital environment; mediated participation; online risks, privacy and safety; media regulation in the public interest
Professor Emerita Robin Mansell
Professor Emerita of New Media and the Internet
Interests and expertise: media and communications regulation and policy; internet governance; privacy and surveillance; digital platforms; data and information; social, political and economic impacts of innovation and digital technology applications
Professor Bingchun Meng
Professor of Media and Communications
Interests and expertise: gender and the media, political economy of media industries, communication governance, comparative media studies, media and communication in China
Dr Dylan Mulvin
Associate Professor, Doctoral Programme Director
Interests and expertise: media history; media theory; infrastructure studies; science and technology studies; history of science and technology; visual culture; screen technologies; gender studies; disability studies; 20th century history; cultural studies
Dr Rachel O'Neill
Assistant Professor
Interests and expertise: gender and sexuality; media and culture; labour; consumption and embodiment; feminist theory; knowledge politics; ethnography
Professor Shani Orgad
Professor of Media and Communications
Interests and expertise: gender, feminism and media; motherhood; globalisation; media representations; narrative; ethnographic research methods
Dr Jean-Christophe Plantin
Associate Professor, Exam Board Chair
Interests and expertise: politics of platforms; data and knowledge; media infrastructures
Dr Alison Powell
Associate Professor
Interests and expertise: technology design and policy; public sector technology; digital futures; epistemic justice; participatory research; creative methods; public participation; technology in health and care
Professor Terhi Rantanen
Professor of Global Media and Communications
Interests and expertise: media globalization; news agencies; media history; national and global news; comparative research
Dr Damian Tambini
Distinguished Policy Fellow
Interests and expertise: broadcasting; regulation; telecommunications; public sphere; freedom of speech; intellectual property; the commons
Dr Wendy Willems
Associate Professor
Interests and expertise: postcolonial/decolonial approaches to media and communication; global media and communication studies; urban communication; digital publics and history; racialised publics; global knowledge production; intellectual histories
Dr Jungmo Youn
番茄社区 Fellow
Interests and expertise: critical cultural studies; cultural history; media history; media political economy; history of mentality; conceptual history