People

Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi
Associate Professor

Interests and expertise: global communication; comparative journalism; digital activism; collective memory; popular culture; media & war; 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; social media, toxic speech and hate speech; youth civic participation

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

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: 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, Research Director

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: media systems in transition; power; legacies of coloniality; foreign aid

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

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 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 Pablo Morales
LSE Fellow in Media and Communications

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

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

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, Deputy Head of Department

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

Dr Jungmo Youn
LSE Fellow

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

Dr Youn will begin working in the Department in November 2022

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

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

Danielle Blasse
Research and Department Affairs Administrator

Responsibilities: doctoral programmes; departmental research; Media@LSE; visiting research appointments 

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

Lisa Derand
Graduate Teaching Assistant (MC499)

Interests and expertise: social movements; mediation; indigenous studies

Nan Ding
Graduate Teaching Assistant (MC499)

Interests and expertise: technology and society; platform studies; urban social theories; modernity

Dr Taner Dogan
Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: communications; culture; identity; religion; art; Turkey; Middle East

Dr Claire Forbes
Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: government communication; regulatory communication; utilities; environmental communication; water

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 Afroditi-Maria Koulaxi
Guest Teacher

Interests and expertise: identity; mediation; crisis; encounters; reflexivity

Dr Ewa Majczak
Guest Teacher and ERSC Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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

Philip Di Salvo
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: whistleblowing; investigative journalism; internet surveillance and the relationship between journalism and hacking

Dr Paolo Dini
Senior Visiting Research Fellow

Interests and expertise: complementary currencies and the political economy of sustainable development

Professor Shira Dvir-Gvirsman
Senior Visiting Research Fellow

Interests and expertise: media effects; social media; politics; journalism

Dr Berfin Emre Cetin
Senior Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: nationalism; gender; migration; audience in the context of media

Dr Kate Gilchrist
Visiting Fellow and Guest Teacher

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

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 Monica Mi Hee Hwang 
Visiting Senior Fellow

Interests and expertise: social inequality; ethno-racial stratification; immigration and diversity; racialisation; social boundaries; social capital; knowledge and power. 

Dr Jonathan Ilan
Visiting Senior Fellow

Interests and expertise: cultural production; cultural identity; cultural industries; news media; news organisations; news production; international news media; news technologies; visual culture; photojournalism; live-broadcast technologies; qualitative research methods; media ethnography; visual analysis 

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. 

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

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, 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 Sebastián Lehuedé
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: digital technologies, data governance, decolonial theory, Latin America.

Professor Asko Lehmuskallio
Visiting Professor

Interests and expertise: practice theory; media anthropology; network cameras; privacy and boundary regulation; the face. 

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

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 Toussaint Nothias
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: civil society; digital tech; Africa; stereotypes; representation; postcolonial theory. 

Dr Ioanna Noula
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: citizenship education; critical pedagogy; digitalisation

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

Professor Sandra Ponzanesi
Visiting Professor

Interests and expertise: gender and postcolonial studies

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 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 Andrés Shoai 
Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: public opinion; digitally-mediated dialogue; ethics. 

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; telecommunications history

Dr Saskia Witteborn 
Senior Visiting Fellow

Interests and expertise: Digital migration studies; Technology and the geopolitics of belonging; Migration into immersive realities; Cultural communication; Philosophy of Communication; Language and social interaction

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; data privacy; platformisation; datafied education; social theory

Emma Goodman
Policy Officer, Media@LSE

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

Dr Ewa Majczak
ERSC Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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