Past Visitors and Associates

Our department has welcomed a diverse group of visiting academics who have contributed to our research, teaching, and intellectual community. This page highlights the scholars who have joined us, sharing their expertise and enriching our collective work. We celebrate their contributions and look forward to continuing these valuable exchanges.

Professor Eyup Al
Visiting Fellow
Interests and expertise: Time-Space in Communication Technologies; Information Technologies; Digital Surveillance; Surveillance Society
Dr Ana Garcia-Arranz
Visiting Fellow
Interests and expertise: Sociology of Health and Illness; Critical Marketing Studies; Quantitative Methods
Professor Ahmet Atay
Visiting Senior Fellow
Interests and expertise: Media and film studies; New media studies; Cultural studies; Queer theory; Gender studies; Globalization; Postcolonial and decolonial studies; Autoethnography
Professor Benedetta Brevini
Visiting Senior Fellow
Interests and expertise: Political economy of communication; Climate change and the media; Environmental communication; Platform capitalism; AI and sustainability; Greening AI ; Media reforms; Public interest and public service media
Dr Fabian Broeker
Visiting Fellow
Interests and expertise: Digital Ethnography; Social Media; Platforms; Dating Apps
Dr Patricio Cabello
Visiting Senior Fellow
Interests and expertise: Digital skills; Social uses of media; Digital media and education; Students' well-being
Dr Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer
Visiting Fellow
Interests and expertise: Political communication; Journalism; Political commentary
Dr Pedro Fierro
Visiting Fellow
Interests and expertise: Political Communication, Political Geography
Dr Ivelise Fortim
Visiting Senior Fellow
Interests and expertise: Videogames, Kids and teens; Online therapy; Mental health and social media; Children’s digital lives; Digital technologies, Well-being; Family support
Dr Torsten Geelan
Visiting Fellow
Interests and expertise: Labour movements; Media power; Just transitions; Alternatives to capitalism
Professor Yiqun Geng
Visiting Professor
Interests and expertise: Media and youth; Media education; Media audiences; Digital literacy and AI literacy; Media and information literacy; International and comparative education; International communication; Global 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 Velislava Hillman
Visiting Fellow
Interests and expertise: education technologies; educational data; digital media literacy; children and young people’s digital rights; creativity; mediated learning
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 and governance, Information and communications planning
Dr Angelos Kissas
Visiting Fellow
Interests and expertise: Digital populism; political communication in the age of social media platforms; ideology and mediatized politics; politics of (in)justice and victimhood; critical media studies; multimodal and critical discourse analysis
Professor Priya Kurian
Visiting Senior Fellow
Interests and expertise: Public engagement; gender; ethnicity; sustainability; citizenship
Professor Jim Macnamara
Visiting Professor
Interests and expertise: Measurement; Evaluation; Organisational listening; public communication
Dr Jose Carlos Mariategui
Visiting Senior Fellow
Interests and expertise: Art and technology; Media archaeology; Digitization; Memory organisations; Media industry
Professor Debashish Munshi
Visiting Senior Fellow
Interests and expertise: Public engagement; postcolonial theory; sustainability; citizenship
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 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
Professor Philip Schlesinger
Visiting Professor
Interests and expertise: Digital Culture
Jonny Shipp
Visiting Fellow
Interests and expertise: sustainability, accountability corporate purpose and ethics in relation to digitalisation; online platforms and Internet services
Professor Kevin Smets
Visiting Senior Fellow
Interests and expertise: Migration, Film, Politics, Identity
Professor Johanna Sumiala
Visiting Senior Fellow
Interests and expertise: Media and social theory, Ritual, Death, Religion, Digital Anthropology
Dr Grace Yuehan Wang
Visiting Fellow
Interests and expertise: Digital economy; Science, Technology and innovation; Entrepreneurship; AI governance; Global south; Regional & international development
Dr Yan Yi
Visiting Senior Fellow
Interests and expertise: Humanitarian communication, Mediation, Issue framing, Political symbolism, Media events, Chinese international communication, Chinese political communication