People
Who's who in the Department of Media and Communications
Head of Department
Deputy Head of Department (Education)
Deputy Head of Department (Research)
Department Manager
Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi
Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Department (Education)Interests and expertise: global communication; comparative journalism; digital activism; collective memory; popular culture; media and war; Middle East and North Africa
Dr Asif Ali AkhtarLSE Fellow
Interests and expertise: media anthropology; histories of communication technologies and regulations; postcolonial media systems; democratisation of media and political discourses; surveillance and data privacy; governance systems and media policy frameworks
Dr Nick Anstead
Associate ProfessorInterests and expertise:Campaigning; Citizenship; eCampaigning; ePolitics; elections; internet; new media; political participation; political parties
Professor Shakuntala Banaji
Professor of Media, Culture and Social ChangeInterests and expertise: Bollywood; Hindi cinema; South Asia; audiences; children; creativity; film studies; international media; media education; media literacy; misinformation and disinformation; online participation; social media, toxic speech and hate speech; youth civic participation
Professor Charlie Beckett
Professor of Practice, Director ofInterests and expertise: artificial intelligence (AI); broadcasting; digital; emotions; ethics; future of news; governance; international media; journalism; media economics; networked journalism; newspapers; social media; start-ups; terror reporting; US media; WikiLeaks
Professor Bart Cammaerts
Professor of Politics and CommunicationInterests and expertise: media strategies of activists; representations of protest; alternative media; power and participation; anti-fascism
Professor Lilie Chouliaraki
Chair in Media and CommunicationsInterests and expertise:corporate communication and branding; humanitarian communication; media ethics; public sphere and civil action; media representations of suffering and violence
Professor Nick Couldry
Professor of Media, Communications and Social TheoryInterests and expertise: media and data ethics; media audiences; media and platform power; reality media; social theory; sociology of culture; voice and listening
Dr Simidele Dosekun
Assistant ProfessorInterests and expertise: gender and media; race and ethnicity; Africa; consumer and popular cultures; representation; globalisation; feminist theory; qualitative research methodologies; knowledge politics
Professor Lee Edwards
Professor of Strategic Communications and Public EngagementInterests and expertise: critical approaches to strategic communication and public relations; postcolonial theory, critical race theory, intersectionality and public relations; PR as a professional field; promotional industries and cultures; strategic communications, public engagement and democracy; copyright policy and public engagement
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan
Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Department (Research)Interests and expertise: communication rights and technologies; data profiling; surveillance; privacy; data and discrimination; democratic communication; digital inclusion; media justice; public participation in comms/tech policy
Professor Myria Georgiou
Professor of Media and Communications, Head of DepartmentInterests and expertise:audience research; diaspora; migration and the media; identity and the media; media and the city; transnational communities and networks
Dr Suzanne Temwa Gondwe Harris
LSE Fellow in Media, Communication and DevelopmentInterests and expertise: media, race and ethnicity; coloniality; ethnic minority media, foreign aid.
Professor Ellen Helsper
Professor of Digital Inequalities, Doctoral Programme DirectorInterests and expertise: digital inequalities; information and communication technologies (ICTs); interpersonal mediated communication; media and everyday life; methodologies in media and communications research
Dr César Jiménez-Martínez
Assistant ProfessorInterests and expertise: media and the nation; nation branding; public diplomacy; soft power; protests and contestation; promotional cultures; branding; Latin America; visibility
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Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE
Professor of Social PsychologyInterests and expertise:media and everyday life; media audiences; children and digital media; media literacy; children’s rights in the digital environment; mediated participation; online risks, privacy and safety; media regulation in the public interest
Professor Emerita Robin Mansell
Professor Emerita of New Media and the InternetInterests and expertise: media and communications regulation and policy; internet governance; privacy and surveillance; digital platforms; data and information; social, political and economic impacts of innovation and digital technology applications
Professor Bingchun Meng
Professor of Media and CommunicationsInterests and expertise: gender and the media, political economy of media industries, communication governance, comparative media studies, media and communication in China
Dr Dylan Mulvin
Associate ProfessorInterests and expertise: media history; media theory; infrastructure studies; science and technology studies; history of science and technology; visual culture; screen technologies; gender studies; disability studies; 20th century history; cultural studies
Dr Rachel O'Neill
Assistant ProfessorInterests and expertise: gender and sexuality; media and culture; labour; consumption and embodiment; feminist theory; knowledge politics; ethnography
Professor Shani Orgad
Professor of Media and CommunicationsInterests and expertise: gender, feminism and media; motherhood; globalisation; media representations; narrative; ethnographic research methods
Dr Jean-Christophe Plantin
Associate Professor, Exam Board ChairInterests and expertise: politics of platforms; data and knowledge; media infrastructures
Dr Alison Powell
Associate ProfessorInterests and expertise: technology design and policy; public sector technology; digital futures; epistemic justice; participatory research; creative methods; public participation; technology in health and care
Professor Terhi Rantanen
Professor of Global Media and CommunicationsInterests and expertise: media globalization; news agencies; media history; national and global news; comparative research
Dr Philipp Seuferling
LSE FellowInterests and expertise: media and migration; borders; media technologies; media history; media theory; cultural histories of science and technology; critical cultural studies
Dr Damian Tambini
Distinguished Policy FellowInterests and expertise: broadcasting; regulation; telecommunications; public sphere; freedom of speech; intellectual property; the commons
Dr Wendy Willems
Associate ProfessorInterests and expertise: postcolonial/decolonial approaches to media and communication; global media and communication studies; urban communication; digital publics and history; racialised publics; global knowledge production; intellectual histories
Dr Jungmo Youn
LSE FellowInterests and expertise: critical cultural studies; cultural history; media history; media political economy; history of mentality; conceptual history
Education and Student Experience Team
Ben McDonald - Team Lead
Deputy Department ManagerContact:Media.MSc@lse.ac.uk
Ask me about:planning and operations for departmental education and student experience
Katrina Millett
Programmes CoordinatorContact: Media.MSc@lse.ac.uk
Ask me about: MSc double degree programmes; MSc alumni; MSc general queries; MSc admissions queries; undergraduate study
Haoyue Wang
Graduate Programmes CoordinatorContact: Media.Assessment@lse.ac.uk
Ask me about: MSc programme and course regulations; MSc assessment, coursework and exams
Claudia Pikali - Team Lead
Programmes CoordinatorContact:Media.MSc@lse.ac.uk
Ask me about: MSc admissions; MSc student experience, events and activities; MSc teaching support
Sarah McManus
Departmental Senior Student AdvisorBook an appointment with Sarah here.
Research Operations Team
Leo Beattie - Team Lead
Research ManagerContact: Media.Research@lse.ac.uk
Ask me about: pre- and post- research award management; research finance support; REF preparations; departmental research environment; knowledge exchange and impact
Danielle Blasse
PhD Programmes CoordinatorContact: Media.PhD@lse.ac.uk (for PhD queries) or Media.Visitors@lse.ac.uk (for Visiting Academic queries)
Ask me about: PhD administration; including admissions; current students and alumni; visiting academic staff
Lwam Tesfay
Events and Communications CoordinatorContact:Media.Events@lse.ac.uk
Ask me about: Public events; Online communications; Website management; Social media; Research communications
Department Management
Nicole Garnier
Department ManagerContact:N.Garnier@lse.ac.uk
Ask me about:Departmental strategy and resources; Leadership of departmental professional services; Management of human, financial and physical resources; Departmental strategic development; Departmental policy and procedure; Oversight of compliance, legal issues and critical incidents
Dr Alessandro Castellini
Guest TeacherInterests and expertise: Gender; Sexuality; Motherhood; Postpartum depression; Emotions; Japan; Film theory; Psychoanalysis; Philosophies of translation; Critical pedagogies
Dr Yael Gordon
Guest Teacher and Visiting FellowInterests and expertise: Refugees; Refugee voice; Refugee representation in media; Refugee use of social media
Dr Leslie Haddon
Guest Teacher and Visiting Senior FellowInterests and expertise: ICT consumption and domestication; Children and the Internet; Mobile phones; Social shaping of technology
View our past visitors and associate staff here.
Dr Tamer Al Najjar Trujillo
Visiting FellowInterests and expertise: Alternative media; Journalism of social change; Discourse analysis; Humanitarian communication
Dr Meghanne Barker
Visiting FellowInterests and expertise: Media and semiotic anthropology; Postsocialism; Childhood
Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser
Associate FacultyInterests and expertise: Gender; Feminist theory; Race and ethnicity; Consumer culture; Neoliberal capitalism; Branding; Popular culture; Social media; Youth culture
Professor Meena Dhanda
Visiting ProfessorInterests and expertise: Identity, Caste, Anti-racism, Social justice, Gender quotas
Dr Yael Gordon
Guest Teacher and Visiting FellowInterests and expertise: Refugees; Refugee voice; Refugee representation in media; Refugee use of social media
Dr Leslie Haddon
Guest Teacher and Visiting Senior FellowInterests and expertise: ICT consumption and domestication; children and the Internet; mobile phones; social shaping of technology
Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE
Visiting Professor in PracticeInterestsand expertise: children's rights in the digital age; internet policy; data protection
Dr Ewa Majczak
Visiting FellowInterests and expertise: Cameroon; West Africa; gender; photography; digital economies; visual technologies; intimacy; emotions; affect; digital capitalism
Dr Kruakae Pothong
Visiting FellowInterests and expertise: design-led research; deliberative methods; human-computer interaction; digital ethics; internet of things; internet and related policies; user research
Dr Maggie Scammell
Visiting Senior FellowInterests and expertise: political communications, especially political campaigning; media and elections; governments and news management; political marketing and political journalism
Professor Hannele Seeck
Visiting ProfessorInterests and expertise: organisational communications; crisis communications; ideology; discourse; propaganda; Foucault; governmentality; critical management studies
Professor Julian Sefton-Green
Visiting ProfessorInterests and expertise: media education; creativity; digital childhoods; informal learning
Dr Tim Snelson
Visiting Senior FellowInterests and expertise: Media history; Media and mental health; Youth and digital media
Dr Hao Wang
Visiting Fellow - LSE PhD GraduateInterests and expertise: Labour; Theories of space and time; Technological change and everyday life; Digital urbanism and digital futures; Post-socialist and post-colonial studies; Ethnography of media
Emma Goodman
Policy Officer, Media@LSEInterests and expertise: media policy; fake news; e-campaigning; national and international news journalism; media and development
Diego Martinez
Research Fellow, REMEDIS projectInterests and expertise: digital inclusion; ICT4D; digital literacy
Dr Pablo Morales
UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow,Interests and expertise: globalisation; media flows; China; Latin America
Esra Ozkan
Table Co-Director,Interests and expertise: social justice; anti-racism; social action; movement building; network development
Dr Didem Özkul
Research Officer, Digital Futures for ChildrenInterests and expertise: communication technologies; critical data studies; privacy; surveillance
Sanne Stevens
Table Co-Director,Interests and expertise: politics of data-driven automation; demystifying technologies; digital welfare state; organising; social justice; anti-racism; repression
Dr Kim R. Sylwander
Research Officer, Digital Futures for ChildrenInterests and expertise: media culture and identities; communication, technology rights and justice; children’s rights in digital environments; children’s digital lives
Dr Mariya Stoilova
Research Officer, Global Kids OnlineInterests and expertise:digital technologies, well-being, and family support; social change and transformations of intimate life; citizenship and social inequalities
Tshepo Tshabalala
Project Manager,Interests and expertise: journalism, media innovation, social media
- We welcome enquiries from exceptional postdoctoral candidates who wish to join the Department with a funded Early Career Research Fellowship. See here for more information about fellowships we are able to host.