Representation, crisis and empathy: Examining the framing and duration of South Sudanese crisis reporting.
I am interested in examining what determines the visibility of conflict and suffering in South Sudan, both in terms of technical production/political-economic factors of news production and dissemination, and in terms of the manner in which conflict and suffering may be represented in constrained ways.
Supervisors: Professor Lilie Chouliaraki and Dr Wendy Willems
I have an academic/research interest in the intersection between narratives of 'Africa', conflict and development assistance. I completed an MA analysing the understandings present in coverage of the 2011/12 Somalia famine and a second Masters in Public Policy and conflict, examining questions of validity, reliability, and legitimacy of conflict databases as research tools in memory/archive projects.