Recent PhD students

What kinds of topics have our recent PhD students taken on? This page lists the research students who have graduated from the Department of Journalism Studies in the past few years - and gives details of the work they undertook with us.

2013

Lily Canter

Web 2.0 and the changing relationship between British local newspaper journalists and their audiences

Stephanie Pukallus

A Study of the Representations of European Citizenship and its Public Communication by the European Commision (1951-2012)

Lada Price

Bulgarian Journalists and Change (1989-2007): Perception of Transformation of the Bulgarian Media System

Dean Cummings

TV News Construction in Converging Environments

2012

Alaaddin Paksoy

Representation of Turkey's EU Bid in the British Media

2011

Ali Ali

Broadening Access to the Curriculum through Journalism for Children in Libya

Osamah Al Nassar

A Study of Televising the Saudi Majlis Ash-Shura Debates

2010

Terki Awad

The Saudi press and the internet: How Saudi journalists and decision makers evaluate censorship in the presence of the internet

Albert Mensah

Political Brand Management: Forms and Strategies in Modern Party Politics

Pradip Panday

Communicating HIV/AIDS in a Developing Context: A Case Study and Analysis of PIACT; B Targeting Female Street-Based Sex Workers in Rajshahi City Corporation, Bangladesh

2009

Jong Ha Na

Introducing the Digital News System into a TV Newsroom: A Case Study of SBS, South Korea

Suthee Phowboonmee

Interactivity in news websites: the changing role of journalists as gatekeepers, audiences' uses of interactive features, and their perception of interactivity. A case study in Thailand

Jameel Yushua

Coverage of corruption scandals in the Nigerian press: A comparative analysis of northern and southern newspapers