Postgraduate research
Media and communication
Digital Networks and Communication
- Influencer, online streaming and intimacy
- Trust, identity, belonging and online/offline communities
- Social capital and social media use
- Chinese popular culture and subculture
- Race, ethnicity and gender
- Machine learning and digital 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 (content; listening; platforms; production)
- Community-led cultural and radio production
- Radio and migration
- Television drama aesthetics
- Science fiction film and television
Dr Tracy Simmons
- Sexual citizenship
- Migration
- Queer/feminist theory
- Social media and citizenship
Dr Joe Smith
- Media Audiences
- Public participation in popular culture
- Fans and fan cultures
- Sports fans and politics fans in particular
- Age, ageing and media use
- Representations of ageing in the media
- Psychoanalytical approaches to cultural engagement in everyday life
- News and journalism
- Online news/journalism
- Framing
- Public opinion
- Globalization
- Global culture
- National development
- Consumer citizenship
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
- governance
- public relations
- political economy of media
- greenwashing
- policy processes and activism, especially consumer activism
- 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 Joe Smith
- Media Audiences
- Public participation in popular culture
- Fans and fan cultures
- Sports fans and politics fans in particular
- Age, ageing and media use
- Representations of ageing in the media
- Psychoanalytical approaches to cultural engagement in everyday life
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
- Influencer, online streaming and intimacy
- Trust, identity, belonging and online/offline communities
- Social capital and social media use
- Chinese popular culture and subculture
- Race, ethnicity and gender
- Machine learning and digital methods