People

Head of Department

Professor Bart Cammaerts

Deputy Head of Department (Education)

Professor Lee Edwards

Deputy Head of Department (Research)

Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan

Department Manager

James Deeley

Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi
Associate Professor

Interests and expertise: global communication; comparative journalism; digital activism; collective memory; popular culture; media and war; Middle East and North Africa

Dr Asif Ali Akhtar
LSE 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 Professor

Interests and expertise: campaigning; citizenship; eCampaigning; ePolitics; elections; internet; new media; political participation; political parties

Professor Shakuntala Banaji
Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change

Interests 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 of Polis 

Interests 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 Communication, Head of Department

Interests and expertise: media strategies of activists; media representations of protest; alternative media and counter-cultures; media histories; political theory and broader issues relating to power, participation and public-ness

Professor Lilie Chouliaraki
Chair in Media and Communications

Interests 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 Theory

Interests 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 Professor 

Interests 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 Engagement, Deputy Head of Department (Education)

Interests 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

Interests 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 Development

Interests and expertise: race and ethnicity; racism; coloniality; development; foreign aid; critical discourse; representation; Africa

Professor Ellen Helsper
Professor of Digital Inequalities, Doctoral Programme Director

Interests 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 Professor

Interests and expertise: media and the nation; nation branding; public diplomacy; soft power; protests and contestation; promotional cultures; branding; Latin America; visibility

Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE
Professor of Social Psychology

Interests 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 Internet

Interests 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 Communications

Interests and expertise: gender and the media, political economy of media industries, communication governance, comparative media studies, media and communication in China

Dr Dylan Mulvin
Assistant Professor

Interests 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 Professor

Interests and expertise: gender and sexuality; media and culture; labour; consumption and embodiment; feminist theory; knowledge politics; ethnography 

Professor Shani Orgad
Professor of Media and Communications

Interests and expertise: gender, feminism and media; motherhood; globalisation; media representations; narrative; ethnographic research methods

Dr Jean-Christophe Plantin
Associate Professor, Exam Board Chair

Interests and expertise: politics of platforms; data and knowledge; media infrastructures

Dr Alison Powell
Associate Professor

Interests and expertise: technological citizenship; ethics and values in technology design; 'smart cities'; algorithmic culture; transparency and accountability of algorithmic systems; tech culture; hacker culture; tech activism 

Professor Terhi Rantanen 
Professor of Global Media and Communications

Interests and expertise: media globalization; news agencies; media history; national and global news; comparative research

Dr Philipp Seuferling
LSE Fellow

Interests and expertise: media and migration; borders; media theory; media history

Dr Damian Tambini
Distinguished Policy Fellow 

Interests and expertise: broadcasting; regulation; telecommunications; public sphere; freedom of speech; intellectual property; the commons 

Dr Wendy Willems 
Associate Professor

Interests 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 Fellow

Interests and expertise: critical cultural studies; cultural history; media history; media political economy; history of mentality; conceptual history

Nicole Garnier - Team Lead
Deputy Department Manager, Head of Education and Student Experience

Ask me about: day-to-day oversight of all MSc programmes, teaching operations and student experience

Ethan Liu
Programmes Coordinator

Ask me about: MSc programme and course regulations, MSc assessment, coursework and exams

Ben McDonald
Programmes Coordinator

Ask me about: MSc admissions; MSc student experience, events and activities; MSc teaching support

Martina Zuccarella
Programmes Coordinator

Ask me about: undergraduate study; dual degree admissions, student experience and activities; alumni relations

Leo Beattie - Team Lead
Research Manager

Ask me about: all aspects of departmental research; research finance; research excellence exercise preparations

Danielle Blasse
PhD Programmes Coordinator

Ask me about: all aspects of doctoral (PhD) administration, including admissions, current students and alumni

Grace Nelson
Research Operations Coordinator

Ask me about: visiting academic appointments; departmental research events; research and department finances

Lwam Tesfay
Events and Communications Coordinator

Ask me about: public events; online communications; website management; social media and research communications

James Deeley
Department Manager

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 Teacher

Interests and expertise: gender; sexuality; motherhood; postpartum depression; emotions; Japan; film theory; psychoanalysis; philosophies of translation; critical pedagogies

Dr Kate Gilchrist
Guest Teacher and Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: gender; subjectivity; postfeminism; popular culture; self narrative; psychosocial theory; discourse analysis; intersectionality

Dr Leslie Haddon 
Guest Teacher and Senior Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: ICT consumption and domestication; children and the Internet; mobile phones; social shaping of technology

Dr Jess Hannah
Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: literary studies, media history, cultural studies

Dr Maria Paola Pofi
Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: gender, feminism and media; migration and mobility; media culture, diversity, and inequality; media representations and media audiences

Professor Ahmet Atay
Visiting Senior Fellow

Interests and expertise: media and film studies; new media studies; cultural studies; queer theory and gender studies; globalization; postcolonial and decolonial studies; autoethnography

Dr Meghanne Barker
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: media and semiotic anthropology; postsocialism; childhood 

Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser
Associate Faculty

Interests and expertise: gender; feminist theory; race and ethnicity; consumer culture; neoliberal capitalism; branding; popular culture; social media; youth culture

Professor Bendetta Brevini
Visiting Senior Fellow 

Interests and expertise: political economy of communications; climate change and the media; environmental communication; platform capitalism; AI and sustainability; greening AI; media reforms; public interest and public service media

Dr Patricio Cabello
Visiting Senior Fellow

Interests and expertise: digital skills; social uses of media; digital media and education; student wellbeing

Dr Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: political communication; journalism; political commentary

Dr Bei Deng
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: media image, disinformation, misinformation and fake news, media ethics, oral history

Dr Torsten Geelan
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: labour movements; media power; just transitions; alternatives to capitalism 

Dr Kate Gilchrist
Visiting Fellow and Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: gender; subjectivity; postfeminism; popular culture; self narrative; psychosocial theory; discourse analysis; intersectionality

Dr Yael Gordon
Visiting Fellow 

Interests and expertise: refugees; refugee voice; refugee representation in media; refugee use of social media 

Dr Leslie Haddon 
Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: ICT consumption and domestication; children and the Internet; mobile phones; social shaping of technology

Professor Alison Harcourt 
Visiting Professor

Interests and expertise: Media and communications regulation; internet governance; press and broadcasting policy. 

Dr Velislava Hillman
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: education technologies; educational data; digital media literacy; children and young people’s digital rights; creativity; mediated learning

Dr Weizi Huang
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: media and cultural studies; motherhood and women studies; contemporary China

Professor Yasemin Inceoglu
Visiting Professor 

Interests and expertise: hate speech; media literacy; discriminative discourse; media coverage of others

Professor Baharul Islam
Visiting Professor

Interests and expertise: communications strategy; media; films; public policy; governance; information and communications planning

Dr Reidar S Jessen
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: clinical psychology; gender; queer theory; self-Identity

Dr Anthony Kelly
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: political consumption; selective exposure; partisan media; platform economies; online political talk; user-generated media; comparative politics; social conflict; discourse; affect; identity; voice

Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE
Visiting Professor in Practice

Interests and expertise: children's rights in the digital age; internet policy; data protection

Dr Angelos Kissas
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: populism in the digital age; ideology and power in mediatised politics; politics of victimhood and (in)justice in social media; multimodal and critical discourse analysis 

Professor Jim Macnamara 
Visiting Professor

Interests and expertise: measurement; evaluation; organisational listening; public communication

Dr Ewa Majczak
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: Cameroon; West Africa; gender; young women; beauty; fashion; photography; digital economies; visual technologies; intimacy; emotions; affect; digital capitalism

Dr José-Carlos Mariátegui
Visiting Senior Fellow

Interests and expertise: art and technology; media archaeology; digitisation; memory organisations; media industry

Dr Terese Mendiguren
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: participatory journalism; digital media; journalism practices in social media

Claire Milne
Senior Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: consumer affairs; consumer representation; nuisance calls; numbering; telecommunications policy; telecommunications regulation; universal service

Dr Rian Mulcahy
LSE Fellow, LSE 100

Interests and expertise: economic sociology, sociology of markets, valuation studies

Professor Hannu Nieminen
Visiting Professor

Interests and expertise: communication and democracy; theories of the public sphere; European media and communications policy; media regulation; communication rights

Dr Jedrzej Niklas
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: state and technology; human rights; data protection; data and discrimination; bureaucracy and public institutions; surveillance studies; civil society and participation; political theory

Dr Gabriel Pereira 
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: critical algorithim studies; resistance; antagonism

Dr Kruakae Pothong
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: design-led research; deliberative methods; human-computer interaction; digital ethics; internet of things; internet and related policies; user research

Dr Miriam Rahali
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: advertising and branding; children and media; consumer behaviour; crisis communication; digital inequalities; generations; gender; inclusive education; parenting; representation; research methods

Dr Maggie Scammell
Visiting Staff

Interests and expertise: political communications, especially political campaigning; media and elections; governments and news management; political marketing and political journalism

Professor Philip Schlesinger
Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow

Interests and expertise: cultural policy; digital cultures; post-truth and the politics of expertise; creative and cultural industries; collective identity

Professor Hannele Seeck
Visiting Professor 

Interests and expertise: organisational communications; crisis communications; ideology; discourse; propaganda; Foucault; governmentality; critical management studies

Professor Julian Sefton-Green
Visiting Professor 

Interests and expertise: media education; creativity; digital childhoods; informal learning

Jonny Shipp
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: sustainability, accountability corporate purpose and ethics in relation to digitalisation; online platforms and Internet services

Dr Johanna Sumiala
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: media and social theory; ritual; death; religion; digital anthropology

Dr Jane Vincent
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: youth and the Internet; mobile communications; emotion and ICTs; telecommunications history

Dr Nina Vindum Rasmussen
LSE Fellow, LSE100

Interests and expertise: algorithmic culture; media production; creative industries; digital platforms; cultural labour; qualitative research methods

Dr Grace Yuehan Wang
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: Global South; digital economy (with a focus on Africa and Asia); development and policy; technology and innovation; creative culture; digital storytelling

Dr Jun Yu

Visting Fellow

Interests and expertise: algorithmic culture; data privacy; platformisation; datafied education; social theory

Dr Fiona Abades Barclay
Research Officer, Media Literacy Programme

Interests and expertise: media and culture; online labour; critical media literacy; digital and popular cultures; postfeminism and neoliberalism; girls and young women; online communities and parasocial relations.

Dr Fabian Broeker
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

Interests and expertise: digital ethnography, social media, platforms, dating apps

Emma Goodman
Policy Officer, Media@LSE

Interests and expertise: media policy; fake news; e-campaigning; national and international news journalism; media and development

Diego Martinez 
Research Fellow, REMEDIS project 

Interests and expertise: digital inclusion; ICT4D; digital literacy

Dr Pablo Morales
UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow, CICLA project

Interests and expertise: globalisation; media flows; China; Latin America

Esra Ozkan
Table Co-Director, Justice, Equity and Technology

Interests and expertise: social justice; anti-racism; social action; movement building; network development

Sanne Stevens
Table Co-Director, Justice, Equity and Technology

Interests and expertise: politics of data-driven automation; demystifying technologies; digital welfare state; organising; social justice; anti-racism; repression

Dr Mariya Stoilova
Research Officer, Global Kids Online

Interests and expertise: digital technologies, well-being, and family support; social change and transformations of intimate life; citizenship and social inequalities

Tshepo Tshabalala
Project Manager, JournalismAI

Interests and expertise: journalism, media innovation, social media