Postgraduate research
Media and communication
Digital Networks and Communication
Dr Panayiota Tsatsou
- Digital divide
- Digital inclusion
- Digital research
- Internet studies
- Digital media and activism
- Digital media and gender
- Digital media and children
- Health communication on social media
- Trust and online/offline communities
- Social capital, cultural capital and social media use
- Chinese social media
- Quantitative analysis, statistic modelling, survey and online methods
Media Cultures
Dr Anna Claydon
- Film
- Music
- Disability in the media
- Seriality (film and TV)
- Science fiction
- Gender
- Media and cultural theory
- Celebrity
- Girlhood
- Tween Popular Culture
- Postfeminism, neoliberalism, film and TV
- Representations of gender
- Feminist media studies
- Media Audiences
- Public participation in popular culture (Talk shows and reality TV)
- Media Regulation
- Consumption Research and Links Between Media and Social Theory
- Radio
- Community radio
- Radio and migration
- Television drama
- Science fiction
Dr Tracy Simmons
- Sexual citizenship
- Migration
- Queer/feminist theory
- Social media and citizenship
- News and journalism
- Online news/journalism
- Framing
- Public opinion
- Globalization
- Global culture
- National development
- Consumer citizenship
Dr Jo Whitehouse-Hart
- Film and television audiences
- Domestic television viewing
- Psychoanalytic and psychosocial approaches to media and everyday life
- Creative industries
- Gender and class
Public Communication
- Political Communications (UK, US, EU)
- Journalism studies
- Science documentary
Dr Scott Davidson
- Public relations
- Lobbying
- Political communications
- NGO campaigns
- Corporate Political Action/Social Advocacy
- Agonistic versus deliberative democracy
- Popular discourses of generations
- Representations of older people
- Science communication
- Argumentation and language strategies
- Political communication and nationalist/far-right actors
- Environmental communication
- The public sphere
- Discourse and multimodal analysis
- Memory politics/communicating the past/present
- Far Right across Europe
- Media representations of the law, the legal system and courts
- Mediations of human rights law
- Miscarriages of justice campaigning in social media
- Gender and celebrity culture
- Crime and the media.
- Journalism, news and current affairs
- Representation
- International law
- European law and policy making
Dr Sarah Gong
- Consumer culture and advertising
- Risk society
- Motherhood studies
- Politician-journalist relationship
- Online journalism in China
- Discourse analysis
- Environmental Communications
- News
- Journalism
- Science Constructionism
- Discourse and social problems
- Media Audiences
- Public participation in popular culture (Talk shows and reality TV)
- Media Regulation
- Consumption Research and Links Between Media and Social Theory
- Sociology of journalism, professionalism and production (online or legacy media)
- Reporting of conflicts and crises (energy, climate change, terrorism, immigration, disaster etc.,)
- News sources, resources and the politicization of issues
- Audience reception of news journalism
- Journalists as cultural intermediaries
Dr Kostas Saltzis
- New media and journalism
- Digital Communications
- News Production
- Management of News Organisations
- political communication
- mediation of migration,
- journalism/news media
- media history
- public opinion
Dr Ian Somerville
- Public relations
- Conflict and post-conflict societies
- Gender/transgender
- Government communication
- Political lobbying
- Sport and physical activity
- News and journalism
- Online news/journalism
- Framing
- Public opinion
- Globalization
- Global culture
- National development
- Consumer citizenship