PhD Researchers
Current PhD Researchers in the Department of Media and Communications
Alex Birintzis
Project: 'Reclaiming Greekness and resolving cognitive dissonance': queer responses to ethno-religious constructions of Greek national identity in public discourse
Vashan Brown
Project: Profit, Power and the News Industry: Analysing News Production Culture in Jamaica
Lewis Bush
Project: The implications of automation and artificial intelligence for visual journalism
Joe-Ann Chavry
Project: (Re)constructing a black creole female subjectivity through online self-representation in Mauritius.
Yu Chen
Project: PhD in Media and Communications and Journalism in China
Min Gao
Project: Telephone Girls Moving Towards Innovation: Revisiting the Socialist Gendered Technoculture in Maoist China (1949-1960)
Mengyun He
Project: Digital Body Production of Underprivileged Women in Contemporary China
Johanne Lahlum Hortman
Project: Subjectivity and Space: an affective cartography of translocal subjectivities
Runze Hu
Project:The Cultural Dynamics and Use of Immersive Virtual Environment Technologies in Users' Everyday Life
Zichen (Jess) Hu
Project: Dynamic networks and emergent publics of Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories: starting from (not just fringe) communities on 4chan, 8kun and Reddit
Hatty Liu
Project: Reporting Dystopia: Techno-Orientalism and Speculative Fiction in Representations of China in Journalism
Kristeena Monteith
Project: Digital inequalities reflected and contested in Caribbean feminists online organising
Diana Olaleye
Project: Producing and Consuming Black Women’s Self-Help in Britain
Anna Osterberg
Project: Platforms Against the System: Historicising Technologies of Transparency and Transgression
Sindhoora Pemmaraju
Project: South Korean Masculinity and Victimhood
Shivani Rao
Project: Optimisation Within and Without: Work and Subjectivity in the Smart City
Stephanie Rodriguez
Project: Filipino American Youth Civic Becoming and Instagram Stories
Subhajit Sikder
Project: The shaping of hegemonic masculine culture on the Indian public sphere through the triadic relationship between visual ephemeras, content creators and ordinary user-consumer-audiences.
Ziwei Tang
Project: Imagined Intimacy in Chinese celebrity fandoms
David Threlfall
Project: Tracing the evolution of "rhetorical political economy" in major political party rhetoric in the UK and USA, 1945-2024: a multi-method comparative conceptual and ideological analysis
Melissa Vincent
Project: Amplifying the Stakes of "Data Loss Grief": The Emotional and Material Impact on Users' Personal Information Sovereignty Following Digital Platform and ICT Infrastructure Collapse
Anran Wang
Project: The Resilience of Local Herbal Knowledge in a Mediated Society
Lili Wang
Project: The Floating Diaspora: Transnational Habitus of the Chinese Migrants