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Professor Stuart Allan
BAA, MA, PhD

Professor of Journalism

Professional Details

Previous Appointments:
	Professor of Media and Journalism Studies
	University of the West of England, Bristol

Area(s) of Interest

Research Centre:
	Institute of Media Communication Research

Area(s) of Interest:
	Online news, with special interests in crisis, conflict and war reporting (especially the role of citizen journalism).
	Science journalism, including press representations of nanotechnology.
	Journalism history, with a special interest in the ways certain reportorial forms and practices have become conventionalised.
	Young people, citizenship and digital media

Academic Group(s):
	Journalism and Communication

Relevant Posts Within Industry/Academia:
	Book Series Editor, 'Issues in Cultural and Media Studies,' Open University Press http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/cgi-bin/browse_series_oup2.pl?series=IC, http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/cgi-bin/browse_series_oup2.pl?series=IC Member, Editorial Board, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism (Sage). http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200905, http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal200905 Member, Editorial Board, Media, War and Conflict (forthcoming, Sage). http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?currTree=Subjects&level1=J00&prodId=Journal201796, http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?currTree=Subjects&level1=J00&prodId=Journal201796 Foundational Member, Editorial Board, Communication, Culture & Critique (forthcoming, Blackwell). http://www.icahdq.org/publications/commcultcrit.asp, http://www.icahdq.org/publications/commcultcrit.asp Member, Editorial Board, Time & Society (also Deputy Editor, 1993-98). http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=58, http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=58 Member, Editorial Board, Space and Culture (Sage). http://sac.sagepub.com/, http://sac.sagepub.com/ Member, Editorial Board, Text & Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse and Communication Studies (Mouton de Gruyter). http://www.degruyter.de/rs/384_410_DEU_h.htm, http://www.degruyter.de/rs/384_410_DEU_h.htm Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Middle East Media (AUSACE). http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwaus/jmem/Aims_scope.htm, http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwaus/jmem/Aims_scope.htm Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Fifth Estate Online. http://www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk/index1.html, http://www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk/index1.html

Profile

I joined the Media School in September 2007 as Professor of Journalism. Prior to this appointment, I was Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
My current research includes a study of young people’s use of digital media, funding for which has been provided by the AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme. My partners are based at Cardiff University, the University of Ulster and the BBC. I am also conducting research into the press reporting of nanotechnology, a project funded by the ESRC. Partners are based at the University of Plymouth.
Current book projects include Digital War: Technologies of News Reporting (co-authored with Donald Matheson), Journalism and Public Life, and Keywords in News and Journalism Studies (co-authored with Barbie Zelizer).