Media & International Politics

Dmitry's research focuses on two main areas: public perception of international politics; and humanitarian crisis communication.

Dmitry argues that public interpretation of international crises is largely shaped by self-conceptions, psychosocial insecurities, and memories within collective identity contexts. This research offers an interdisciplinary integration of international relations, political psychology, memory, and media studies. 

Dmitry is also interested in how humanitarian agencies and media see the future of communication in crises; how these visions differ between western and non-western contexts; and how the appearance of digital humanitarians and direct communication channels redraws the traditional roles and powers of crisis actors. This research involves interviews and collaborations with major humanitarian agencies.

PhD supervision

Dmitry is particularly interested in hearing from research students focusing on the following areas:

• Media representations, identity and public opinion; 

• Emotion and collective memory 

• Humanitarian crisis communication

• Media and international development 

• Critical conceptions of security/insecurity in media and politics

Journalism Studies

Tony's work focuses on the ethics of journalism, alternative forms of journalism, and the essentials of reporting news accurately and fairly. 

Tony has more than 30 years' personal experience as a staff and freelance journalist on alternative and mainstream media ranging from small local weekly publications to national newspapers, magazines and websites. 

He is currently researching and writing a monograph due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020 as What's the Point of News? A Study in Ethical Journalism. 

PhD supervision

Tony is particularly interested in hearing from research students focusing on the following areas:

• News values

• Ethics and journalism

• Alternative journalism / alternative media

• Journalism practice

Journalism, Politics, & Communication

Emma's research interests lie in the role of media, and particularly radio, in conflict-affected zones. She is currently leading the FemmePowermentNiger project, which assesses the impact of radio on women's empowerment in Niger, and she is working closely with international media development agencies, NGOs and CSOs in Palestine and the West Bank.

Emma is currently working with RESOLVE from the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) on a methodological guide to researching the prevention and countering of violent extremism. 

Emma’s recently published book explores the state of European foreign conflict reporting by public service television broadcasters, post-Cold War and post-9/11, using the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict as a case study. 

PhD supervision

Emma is particularly interested in hearing from research students focusing on the following areas:

• conflict reporting

• Use of radio by international development agencies, NGOs, and CSOs

• peacebuilding and peacekeeping

Public Communication & Civil Development

Stef specialises in how the European Community has developed and publicly communicated civil values and policies since 1951 in an attempt to stimulate and facilitate the emergence of a European civil society. She has just published a research monograph entitled The Building of Civil Europe 1951-1972.

She is also interested in how the factual media can contribute to sustainable comprehensive peace in post-conflict settings. Together with Jackie Harrison she has developed a civil norms approach, arguing that the media can contribute to peaceful and associative life by engaging in the building of civil norms.

PhD supervision

Stef is particularly interested in hearing from research students focusing on the following areas:

• Public communication in European integration

• The civil role of the media in post-civil war settings

• The discursive bases of sustainable peace 

International Politics, Media, & Persuasive Communicative Practices

In his research, Paweł is intrigued by questions relating to the expansion of propaganda to new social spaces, and the reinvention of this practice, particularly in the context of foreign policy, diplomacy and cyberspace (e.g. digital diplomacy).

His primary area of interest is propaganda and new derivatives of this form of political communication, which are emerging at the intersection of evolving media ecologies and socio-political changes taking place in international politics and include: public diplomacy; nation branding; strategic communication; computational propaganda and digital diplomacy.

His work examines these concepts and practices in relation to collective identities, particularly national identities and nationalisms, as well as illiberal trends re-shaping contemporary politics. He is in the process of developing a theory of hybridity of soft power statecraft.

PhD supervision

Pawel is particularly interested in hearing from research students focusing on the following areas:

• Political communication and digital campaigning, soft power, public diplomacy and digital diplomacy

• Political economy of communication and media

• Post-socialist transition and shifting collective identities in Central and Eastern Europe

• The role of broadcast media and social media in the conduct of foreign policy