Journalism Research Group Members

Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism in the Media School. He is Director of the Centre for Journalism and Communication Research, and chair of the Journalism Research Group.

Recent and forthcoming books include: Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication (Palgrave, 2009), Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives (Peter Lang, 2009), Digital War Reporting (Polity, 2009), The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (Routledge, 2010), News Culture (Open U Press, third edition, 2010), Rethinking Communication (Hampton, 2010) and Keywords in News and Journalism Studies (Open U Press, 2010).

His current research projects include science journalism on the internet; journalism history; crisis reporting (especially citizen journalism); young people, citizenship and digital media.

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Einar Thorsen is a Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University where he also completed his PhD in Journalism Studies. His thesis was funded by the AHRC and focused on civic engagement and citizen voices on the BBC News website during the 2005 UK General Election.

Einar’s research projects include as co-edited book (with Stuart Allan) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives published by Peter Lang in 2009, for which he also contributed a chapter on the news reporting of climate change. Other research includes articles on Wikinews and the neutral point of view and the development of public service policies in an online environment.

He is a member of the MeCCSA Executive Committee and the Editor of MeCCSA's Newsletter Three-D since February 2009. Since February 2010 he is also the Online Communications Editor. He is a former member of the Executive Board of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network and a founding member of its journal Networking Knowledge. He was also instrumental in setting up the MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network.

He maintains a personal website at http://multimediajournalism.info.

He can be contacted via:
Email: ethorsen@bournemouth.ac.uk
Twitter: @einarthorsen

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Vanessa Edwards joined Bournemouth University in 2008 after a career of more than 20 years in broadcasting. Previous employers included the BBC, Channel Four and Five.

Vanessa is particularly interested in the teaching of journalism, convergence journalism and international perspectives.

Her current research focuses on the use of language in journalism and the development of journalistic literacy.

Vanessa can be reached at vedwards@bournemouth.ac.uk

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Karen Fowler-Watt is Associate Dean for the Journalism and Communication Academic Group. She trained and worked with BBC News and Current Affairs and s a council member of the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC.) She is alsoa member of the Association of Journalists in Education (AJE.)

She has organised conferences on the challenges presented by citizen journalism and the internet, as well as the future of regional news and the state of current affairs broadcasting.

Karen is involved in research into the pedagogy of journalism, particularly the teaching of radio journalists in a news day environment and the history of journalism education. She is also interested in editorial leadership and original journalism.

She can be reached at kfowler-watt@bournemouth.ac.uk

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Roman Gerodimos is currently completing his doctoral thesis on online youth civic engagement. His research interests include global current affairs, civic mobilisation and the global public sphere.

He is the founder and convenor of the Greek Politics Specialist Group (www.gpsg.org.uk) of the Political Studies Association and recently organised a conference on nation branding and strategic communications in collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He has published in scholarly journals and regularly contributes to international media and academic outlets. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

He can be reached at rgerodimos@bournemouth.ac.uk

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James Matthews is exploring the interaction between the types of sources appearing in news of terrorism and public perceptions of the threat from terrorism. In particular, how the veracity and authenticity of a story may be influenced by the different organisations and institutions quoted or cited by journalists. The focus of this project is an audience study designed to simulate exposure to different types of news content.

James presented a paper, titled ‘News Sources and the Audience,’ at The End of Journalism? Technology, Education and Ethics Conference at the University of Bedfordshire.

James successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled ‘News sources and perceptual effects: an analysis of source attribution within news coverage of alleged terrorist plots’ in July 2010.

He can be reached at jmatthews@bournemouth.ac.uk

Philip MacGregor teaches and researches on journalism. Social impacts of news journalism link his interests. He's a member of a team formed under a European Union project to investigate the impact of the internet in Europe.

He's written journal articles about technology and multi-platform journalism on uses and problems of new technologies.

He is interested in comparative research and cultural variations of journalism. He has recently attempted to link the field of journalism studies to those of cultural policy.

He can be reached at pmacreg@bournemouth.ac.uk

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An Nguyen is Senior Lecturer in Journalism in the Media School at Bournemouth University.

A former Vietnamese journalist and an Australian-educated scholar, Dr Nguyen is internationally recognised for his research in the areas of online journalism (including citizen journalism), news audiences, the globalisation of news and journalism, and science journalism.

He has authored The Penetration of Online News: Past, Present and Future and over 20 papers in prestigious journals and books around the world. He is also in the final stage of his second book, News and Numbers: Journalism and Statistics (with Jairo Lugo, to be published by Palgrave Mcmillan) and in the initial stage of another, Science News and the Public (with Steve McIlwaine, for Bloomsbury Academic).

He can be reached at anguyen@bournemouth.ac.uk

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Liisa Rohumaa joined Bournemouth University in 2007 from the Financial Times where she was news editor of FT.com. As Practitioner in Residence at the Media School in 2006 she designed online journalism units for the BA (Hons) in Multimedia Journalism and BA (Hons) Communication and Media programmes. Liisa started her career as a reporter on the Surrey Comet and has worked for the The Stage, BBC, and The Daily Telegraph.

Liisa is particularly interested in digital literacy issues and she is a researcher on the New Dynamics in Ageing project, a seven year multidisciplinary research initiative with the ultimate aim of improving quality of life of older people.

Online Journalism, a book she has co-authored with Paul Bradshaw, will be published in December 2010 by Pearson.

Liisa can be reached at lrohumaa@bournemouth.ac.uk

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Chindu Sreedharan has specialised in conflict coverage. Formerly associate editor to rediff.com and India Abroad, he has reported on the Kashmir conflict, the Kargil war, and the Maoist People’s War guerrilla movement in central India.

He holds a PhD in conflict journalism (Reporting Kashmir), and is interested in media behaviour in times of war and terrorism.

He co-edits Interjunction, is a reviewer for the Media, War & Conflict journal, serves on the advisory panel of the Media and Inner World, and blogs at www.chindu.net. He is also a member of the Narrative Research Group.

He can be reached at csreedharan@bournemouth.ac.uk

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Sue Wallace is a member of the Radio Academy and conducts research into radio and audio production as well as convergence journalism.

She is developing a longitudinal study into videojournalism and has written about its impact on journalists' working practices and the quality of their output. Her research interests also include regional television news and public service broadcasting.

She can be reached at swallace@bournemouth.ac.uk

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Ana Adi is a Lecturer in Marketing and Corporate Communications in the Media School of Bournemouth University. She is also doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland where she investigates the framing of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games as done by public relations practitioners, online non-accredited media outlets and online readers.

Prior to her doctorate, Ana completed a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. Ana is also an independent Public Relations Consultant specialised in new media and onlinecommunication strategies. She is also actively promoting for a more extensive use of new and social media both in research and the teaching process as a board member of the Interim Director of Social Media Global Education Connection Project.

View Ana's website at http://anaadi.net
Ana can be reached at aadi@bournemouth.ac.uk

Pat Holland is a lecturer and researcher and was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded research project, ‘There’s no such thing as society?’ Broadcasting and the public services 1979-1992. The project analysed the ways in which the changes made by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative governments were reflected in the broadcast media. She has recently completed a study of current affairs on ITV  and is the author of The Angry Buzz: ‘This Week’ and current affairs television (I.B.Tauris 2006).

Other publications include a number of books and articles on various aspects of media and visual culture, with a special interest in popular photography and representations of children and childhood.

She has previously worked as an independent filmmaker, a community bookseller, an educational magazine editor, a freelance journalist and a television editor and producer.

She is on the Editorial Board of the journal Feminist Media Studies and vice-chair of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom.

She can be reached by email on pholland@bournemouth.ac.uk

Dan Jackson’s research interest concerns the role of communication in democratic life. In particular, he is interested in the interplay between journalists and sources in the formation of news, contemporary trends in political journalism, and the impact of news media on public opinion and democratic engagement.

His ongoing projects include an examination of how the interplay of media and politics (known as metacoverage) is manifest in the British news media.

He is a member of the Political Studies Association, the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association and the European Communication Research and Education Association.

He can be reached at djackson@bournemouth.ac.uk

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David McQueen is a lecturer at the Media School in Bournemouth University where he also completed his PhD in Broadcast History. His thesis focused on the BBC current affairs programme Panorama and conflict coverage, comparing the BBC's flagship series' reporting of the First and Second Gulf Wars.

His research interests include news and current affairs, conflict and terrorism coverage, public relations and lobbying, the BBC, public service broadcasting and film and television history. David's research projects include audience's perceptions of PR influenced news stories. He has written several articles as well as a chapter on current affairs history in Culture and Society in 1970's Britain: the Lost Decade by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2010).

David successfully led the accreditation of a new Politics and Media degree which commences in September 2012 and he teaches on several BA and MA Media courses. He is a member of the Southern Broadcast History Group and is the author of Television: A Media Student's Guide (1999) published by Arnold.

He can be reached at dmcqueen@bournemouth.ac.uk

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Barry Richards has led an AHRC-funded study of emotional literacy in journalism, and has written extensively about how news shapes the 'emotional public sphere' (e.g. in his book Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror, Palgrave, 2007, and in the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Journalism and News Studies, ed. Stuart Allan).

His main interest is in problems of security and social cohesion, and the roles of the media in relation to them.

He can be reached at brichards@bournemouth.ac.uk

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Shelley Thompson is a lecturer in Corporate and Marketing Communications at Bournemouth University, where she also completed her PhD in journalism studies. Her PhD, which was funded by the university, explored the framing of nanotechnology in the mainstream press in print and online contexts.

Her recent research activities include work on a variety of projects with Media School colleagues. These projects include understanding young people's knowledge of the influence of public relations on news; analysing the ways in which people discuss politics in non-political blogs; and exploring young people's use of the media and their experiences of living without media for 24 hours.

She joined BU after completing her master's degree in journalism studies at Cardiff University. Previous to her master's degree, Shelley worked as a journalist in several publications in the United States, most recently at the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Eagle-Tribune. While working at the Eagle-Tribune, she received several awards for her reporting, including investigative reporting awards and a First Amendment award for a series on a secret government payment to a public employee leaving his job.

Shelley's research interests include science journalism, online news, and journalism and democracy. She was also chair and secretary of the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Network and was lead organiser of its 2011 conference at BU.

Shelley can be reached at shelleyt@bournemouth.ac.uk

Dr Emma Wray is Lecturer in Radio History at Bournemouth University. She has over fifteen years experience in the radio industry, as Presenter, Producer, and Station Director, having worked for the largest commercial company in the UK, GCap Media [now Global] and The Local Radio Company.

Her PhD focuses on the history and development of UK commercial radio programming and its relationship with regulation. Dr Wray has also collaborated with Tony Stoller, former Chief Executive of the Radio Authority, on research for his comprehensive history of UK Independent Radio (forthcoming John Libbey, May 2010). Her current research interests include an investigation into news production methods in commercial radio and the role of women in music radio.

She continues to broadcast on a freelance basis on radio stations across the South of England and serves on the committee of Radio Academy South, which creates a stronger social and business network for media students, radio practitioners and academics.

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Caitlin is currently Visiting Associate Fellow on a group project involving Bournemouth University's Media School, the University of Stockholm and the University of Helsinki entitled I-Witnessing: Global Crisis Reporting Through the Amateur Lens. This international comparative research project examines how major news organizations and their audiences are responding to the growing availability of user-generated content (with special reference to citizen produced imagery) in crisis reporting.

Prior to this, Caitlin spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow for University College Dublin's Photography and International Conflict project - This Irish Research Council-funded project examined the status and roles of photojournalism and documentary photography both historically and in the current media economy and fostered dialogue among academics, visual media professionals and NGO staff working on aspects of this broad topic. Caitlin is a co-editor (with Prof. Liam Kennedy) and contributor to an edited book for this project, due to be published in 2012.

Caitlin undertook her PhD at Durham University's Geography department. Her thesis was entitled Shoot & Capture: Media Representations of US Military Operations in Somalia 1992-93 and Fallujah, Iraq 2004 and involved a discourse and visual analysis of selected American and British print and TV media coverage of the UN/US Somalia intervention in 1992-93. Coverage of US military involvement in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004 provided a contemporary, comparative case study.

In addition to her PhD work, Caitlin was a research assistant for two photography-based projects that reached outside the traditional academic sphere. The Imaging Famine project, a photographic exhibition held at The Guardian newspaper's newsroom gallery, also included a conference and an educational website. The Visual Economy of HIV/AIDS as a Security Issue project, funded by the Social Science Research Council's AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative, involved research to assist in the production of a report and web resources.

Caitlin's current research interests include: visual representation of the protracted conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia, the current political economy of visual news media in a world of new and expanding audience consumption practices, and the crossover of photojournalism and documentary genres into the contemporary art sphere.

She can be reached at caitlin.patrick@ucd.ie

Nelli Ahmetova is a PhD student at Bournemouth University. Her research focuses on analysing the possible methods that could be used for developing citizen journalism in Iraq, considering emerging information technologies and its potential for contributing to community cohesion and a peaceful atmosphere in the country.

She recieved an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from London College of Communications in 2009, and is currently also working as a freelance photographer.

Before moving to the UK she received a BA in Photojournalism from Moscow State University in 2007. In Moscow she concentrated on social justice issues and the topic of her diploma was ‘Problems in contemporary social photography’. During her BA she worked for various newspapers and magazines.

She can be reached at nahmetova@bournemouth.ac.uk

Venkata Vemuri is a senior print and broadcast journalist from India, currently in the write-up stage of his PhD thesis.

He regularly writes for the UK-based Asian diaspora newspaper, AsianLite, and the India-based national news magazine, Open. He also has a personal column on the American environment website, http://1h2o.org.

He is a member of BASAS and MecSSA and a Fellow of Salzburg Seminar 2008.

Venkata has contributed book reviews to the Journal of South Asian Development and Media, Culture & Society and refereed papers for Contemporary South Asia.

His research interests include journalism practice and ethics, infotainment and news values, broadcast journalism models in developing countries, South Asian media studies, current debate on de-westernising media studies, and North-South divide on conflict journalism.

Email Venkata at vvemuri@bournemouth.ac.uk

Barbara Zeng Xin is an MPhil student at Bournemouth University. Her research is focusing on Chinese young people's news perspectives, including analysing their opinions on defining news, the most important element of nes and how news could be improved. The project may be expanded with a comparative element, using young adults in the UK as a reference.

She was previously studying on the MA Multi-Media Journalism course at Bournemouth University and in Spring 2010 she participated in the reporting of the Qinghai Earthquake with the China Centre Television journalist group.

Majoring in Television Production, she graduated with a BA in 2009 from Communication University of China where she studied communication theories and trained practically as a documentary director. During college she was an amateur writer, contributing poems and articles to local publications. In 2008 she joined documentary units in Hebei Television and later China Centre Television for internships.

Email Barbara at i7920075@bournemouth.ac.uk