Postgraduate research

Media and communication

Digital Networks and Communication

Dr Yimei Zhu

  • 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

Dr Melanie Kennedy

  • Celebrity
  • Girlhood
  • Tween Popular Culture
  • Postfeminism, neoliberalism, film and TV
  • Representations of gender
  • Feminist media studies

Peter Lunt

  • Media Audiences
  • Public participation in popular culture (Talk shows and reality TV)
  • Media Regulation
  • Consumption Research and Links Between Media and Social Theory  

Dr Katie Moylan

  • 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

Dr Vincent Campbell

  • 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

Dr Bernhard Forchtner

  • 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

Dr Lieve Gies

  • 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 Steph Hill

  • governance
  • public relations
  • political economy of media
  • greenwashing
  • policy processes and activism, especially consumer activism
 

Professor Peter Lunt

  • Media Audiences
  • Public participation in popular culture (Talk shows and reality TV)
  • Media Regulation
  • Consumption Research and Links Between Media and Social Theory

Julian Matthews

  • 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

David Smith

  • 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

Dr Maria Touri

  • News and journalism
  • Online news/journalism
  • Framing
  • Public opinion
  • Globalization
  • Global culture
  • National development
  • Consumer citizenship

Dr Yimei Zhu

  • 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
 

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