Dr Irini Katsirea

LLM (Leicester); PhD (Cambridge)

School of Journalism, Media and Communication

Reader in International Media Law

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i.katsirea@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2540

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Dr Irini Katsirea
School of Journalism, Media and Communication
C632
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Profile

Dr Irini Katsirea is Reader in International Media Law at the University of Sheffield. She joined the School of Journalism, Media and Communication in September 2015. Before her appointment at the University of Sheffield, Irini was Senior Lecturer in Law at Middlesex University, London. She has served as Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and is a member of the Athens Bar. She holds a First Examination in Law from the Free University of Berlin, an LLM in European and International Trade Law from the University of Leicester and a PhD from Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Research interests

Irini's research interests are in the areas of international, European and comparative media law as well as EU law. She has published extensively in these areas. Her recent research projects include 'Press Regulation in an Era of Convergence', funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, and 'A comparison of editorial standards and complaints handling before and after IPSO', funded by IPSO.

Irini welcomes PhD applications in her areas of research.

Publications

Journal articles

Chapters

Teaching activities

Irini has taught a variety of subjects including intellectual property and media law, EU law and international commercial arbitration. She is currently module leader for JNL6075 Media Freedom: European, UK and US Perspectives and oversees dissertation work by students on MA Global Journalism (JNL6133) and MA International Public and Political Communication (JNL6600).

PhD supervision

Irini welcomes supervision enquiries for PhD study in her research areas of international, European and comparative media law, as well as EU law.

Current PhD students
  • Aiman Alsaeedi: The integration of user-generated contents and citizen journalism within professional journalistic frameworks at the Arab news channels