People

Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi
Assistant Professor

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

Dr Nick Anstead
Associate Professor, Exam Board Chair

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; political contexts; social media and hate speech; young people; youth civic participation

Dr Ram Bhat
LSE Fellow

Interests and expertise: internet infrastructure governmentality and subjectivation; internet infrastructure hate speech and violence; qualitative methods in media and communication research; decolonising media and communications

Dr Meghanne Barker
LSE Fellow

Interests and expertise: visual culture; children's culture and media; Eastern Europe and Eurasia; postsocialism; ethnographic methods; semiotics; animation and film

Professor Charlie Beckett 
Professor in Practice, Director of Polis 

Interests and expertise: Artificial Intelligence; 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, Doctoral Programme Director

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, Director of Graduate Studies

Interests and expertise: promotional culture, particularly public relations (PR); diversity, inequality and PR; PR as a professional field; young people, PR, voice, recognition; PR and democracy; copyright policy and discourse; postcolonial and decolonial analyses of public relations; climate change communication

Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan
Associate Professor

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, Research Director

Interests and expertise: audience research; diaspora; migration and the media; identity and the media; media and the city; transnational communities and networks 

Professor Ellen Helsper
Professor of Digital Inequalities

Interests and expertise: digital inequalities; information and communication technologies (ICTs); interpersonal mediated communication; media and everyday life; methodologies in media and communications research

Dr Zhongwei Li
LSE Fellow

Interests and expertise: popular music; subculture; cultural production and circulation; historical ethnography; media and communications in post-reform China

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 Robin Mansell
Professor 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

Dr Bingchun Meng 
Associate Professor

Interests and expertise: Chinese media in a globalising era; copyright law and communication; ICT and development; political economy of media and information industries

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

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

Interests and expertise: politics of platforms; evolution of knowledge infrastructures; digital sovereignty

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 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, Deputy Head of Department

Interests and expertise: global digital culture and social change; urban communication; postcolonial/decolonial approaches to media and communication; popular culture, performance and politics in Africa; media culture and neoliberalism in the Global South

Dr Polly Withers
LSE Fellow

Interests and expertise: cultural studies (popular culture, popular music, youth subcultures); gender and sexuality; feminist theory; race and ethnicity; Middle East politics and Palestine; neoliberal capitalism, consumer culture and identity; global media and communications 

Leo Beattie - Team Lead
Research Manager, Research Operations Team Lead

Responsibilities: all aspects of Departmental research; research finance; doctoral programmes; REF 2021 preparations

Rob Sharp
Polis Manager

Responsibilities: operational management and administration of Polis, LSE's Journalism and Society Think Tank

Lwam Tesfay
Events and Communications Officer

Responsibilities: public events; online communications, website, social media and newsletters

Dr Alessandro Castellini
Guest Teacher

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

Dr Jelena Dzakula
Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: communications policy and regulation; citizenship; technological innovations; digital government

Kate Gilchrist
Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: gender; subjectivity; postfeminism; popular culture; self narrative

Dr Leslie Haddon 
Guest Teacher and Visiting Fellow

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

Dr Louise Hickman
Guest Teacher and Senior Research Officer, JUST-AI Network on Data and AI Ethics, Ada Lovelace Institute

Interests and expertise: ethics of care; critical disability studies; feminist STS; feminist labour; crip technoscience; Deaf studies; critical access studies; history of technology; future of work

Dr Rodolfo Leyva
Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: media culture and neoliberalism; new media and political participation; media psychology and neuroscience; quantitative and experimental methods in media and communications research

Dr Sarah Tafakori
Guest Teacher, Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: the intersections of global politics; emotion, mediation and the everyday, with a focus on affective discourses in transnational media contexts

Dr Jane Vincent
Guest Teacher, Visiting Fellow, freelance academic researcher and industry practitioner

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

Dr Jun Yu
Guest Teacher and Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: algorithmic culture; privacy; dataveillance; platformisation of cultural production; social theory; solidarity

Dr Bermal Aydin
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: media governance; media citizenship; communication law; communication contexts

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

Dr Sally Broughton Micova
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: media and communications policy in Europe; rise of competitive authoritarianism; consequences of convergence and globalization in creative and communications industries

Dr Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer
Visiting Fellow, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego

Interests and expertise: political communication; journalism; political commentary

Dr Leslie Haddon 
Guest Teacher

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

Dr Suzanne Temwa Gondwe Harris
LSE Fellow

Interests and expertise: media systems in transition; power; legacies of coloniality; the influence of foreign aid; development and intervention in African media systems; ethnic minority media; decolonising media studies; critical media literacy; identity and representation

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

Atte Jääskeläinen
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: media systems; future of news; digital disruption

Osman Junaid
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: digital advertising ethics; data collection; digital surveillance; media platform regulation and governance; behaviour change; financial services media strategy; consumer healthcare media strategy; biotech; digitisation of the economy

Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE

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

Dr Angelos Kissas
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: Populism, digital media and democracy; the mediatization of politics; political ideology, power and institutions in the age of mediatization; the role of discourse and affect in political communication; qualitative, hermeneutic methods in the study of political communication

Dr Terence McSweeney
Visiting Fellow, Solent University

Interests and expertise: film and television studies; contemporary American cinema

Claire Milne
Senior Visiting Fellow

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

Dr Pablo Morales
LSE Fellow

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

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 Ioanna Noula
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: citizenship education; critical pedagogy; digitalisation

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

Professor Sandra Ponzanesi
Visiting Professor

Interests and expertise: gender and postcolonial studies

Dr Maria Rikitianskaia
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: wireless communication; transnational approach; the political economy of communication; the social construction of technology

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 Julian Sefton-Green
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: media education; new technologies; creativity; digital cultures; 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

Giancarlo Summa
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: international organisations and multilateralism; social media and digital diplomacy; political communication; authoritarian leaders and right-wing movements; Latin American media

Lara Srivastava
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: ICT and media regulation and governance; technical and policy standardization; ICT for development; technology policy; technology and society

Dr Jane Vincent
Visiting Fellow, Guest Teacher, freelance academic researcher and industry practitioner

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

Dr Servet Yanatma
Visiting fellow

Interests and expertise: news agencies; media and politics in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey; political economy of media and media ownership; online news consumption and media business models

Dr Jun Yu

Visting Fellow and Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: algorithmic culture; privacy; dataveillance; platformisation of cultural production; social theory; solidarity

Imre Bard
Research Officer, JUST-AI Network on Data and AI Ethics, Ada Lovelace Institute

Emma Goodman
Policy Officer, Media@LSE

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

Dr Louise Hickman
Senior Research Officer, JUST-AI Network on Data and AI Ethics, Ada Lovelace Institute, Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: ethics of care; critical disability studies; feminist STS; feminist labour; crip technoscience; Deaf studies; critical access studies; history of technology; future of work

Dr Sam Mejias
Postdoctoral Research Officer, STEM Inside

Interests and expertise: citizenship; education; digital media; human rights; neoliberalism; race and ethnicity; youth participation; creative arts; critical media literacy; media representation; international development;discourse analysis; ethnography

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

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

Dr Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi
Research Fellow, We, the People

Interests and expertise: media and public diplomacy; political communication; media, populism, identity politics; media and narratives in foreign policy; Europe-Africa media relations

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