Supervision areas
These are the areas where we're equipped to supervise PhD study. If your idea resonates with any of these themes, please get in touch.
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- Data journalism/digital technology/social media
- Humanitarian crisis/disaster communication
- The use of communication (mass media, visual and performative arts) in peacebuilding, post-conflict and conflict-affected settings
- The communicative/discursive dimension of war, conflict and terrorism (including media representations)
- Media law, ethics and press regulation
- Mediated identity narratives
- Computational approaches to journalism studies and communication sciences
- Strategic communication and public diplomacy
- Journalistic (un)freedoms, journalism safety and the issue of impunity
- Mis- and dis-information in the UK and around the world
- Global information and communication flows
- Journalism history