We encourage you to explore the range and focus of recent PhD student research within the Communication and Media Research Institute.
2024
Christopher Day
The BBC and European integration, c. 1945-1975
Huanyu Huang
Speak in Women’s Way: Online Feminist Movements and Social Media Impact of #MeToo China 2018
Yuchao Li
Nationalism and Social Media in China: A Case Study of Chinese Nationalist Movement against Muslim minorities on Sina Weibo
Rebecca Lewis
A Conscious Creation? Political Economy, Globalisation and Cultural Representation in Terrestrial South Korean Miniseries 2002-2017
Lookman Sanusi
The Challenges of Digital Switchover in Nigeria within the Global Trend in Digital Broadcasting
Samuel Gregory
From Social Media to Deepfakes: Participatory human rights witnessing and advocacy using audiovisual media, incorporating the emerging impacts of deceptive AI and technologies for authenticity and trust (2007-22) (PhD by Published Work)
Nanette Willberg
Designing Social Micro-Learning Interventions for Blended Learning Scenarios in Higher Education: Mixed Methods Research at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences
Samuel Neves
A Constructivist Grounded Theory of Self-Disclosure in Hybrid Pastoral Care
2023
Xiaomin Hu
Moving To the West: Media, Cultural Transnationalism and Identity. Cultural Dynamics of Korean Women in Diaspora
Ruiyue Zhang
Hegemony of BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera’s Framing of Protests in China: The Cases of Wukan and Hong Kong
Mohammed Faisal
Community Radio Broadcasting and Local Governance Participation in Ghana: A Study of Simli Radio in the Kumbungu District of Northern Region
Robert Boughen
Sino-African Journalism and Journalistic Fields: CGTN Africa’s Workers Between Worlds
Colin Barrow
A Comparative Study of How Political Journalists in Four European Countries Reported on the Coronavirus Pandemic
Paninee Boonlert
Policy Making and Public Sphere: An Analysis of Community Radio in Thailand (1997-2021)
Paulina Kuranchie
Decolonising Public Relations in Africa: Centring Local Epistemes in Ghanaian Political Communication
Sally Ann Gross
For the Love of Music – Crossing the Technological Divide; An examination of the Impact of Digital Disruption on Issues of Social Reproduction, Mental Health and Inequality in the Working Lives of the Music Workforce in the UK (PhD by Published Work)
2022
Kala Geetanjali
Internet Memes as Instruments of Subversion in the Context of Islam and Muslims
Anastasia Chabanova
VFX – A New Frontier: The Impact of Innovative Technology on Visual Effects
Reward Mushayabasa
Democratic Transition and Digital Media Activism in Africa: A Zimbabwean Case Study
Doug Specht
The codification of local knowledges through digital cartographic artefacts: A Case study of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Kobina Bedu-addo
Power, Policy, and Digital Switchover An Analysis of Communication Policy Making and its Challenges for Regulating Ghana’s Digital Television Sector
Antonello Bocchino
Using Social Media to Build a Counter-Power Movement: Multiple Sclerosis and CCSVI, a Case Study
Manisha Ganguly
The Future of Investigative Journalism in the Age of Automation, Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Xinyi Yang
The Political Economy of Internet Celebrities in China
2021
Chen Yang
The identity construction and representation of diasporic Chinese content creators on YouTube
Steven Barclay
BBC School Broadcasting, Progressivism in Education, and Literacy 1957-1979
Dennis Boyles
Journalism and the Problem of Progress (PhD By Published Work)
Guo-ting Lin
Music Culture and the Self-Presentation of Indigenous Musicians on Social Media in Contemporary Taiwan
Marilia Hernandes Jardim
The Corset and the Hijab: The Discursivisation of Identity Between the West and the Orient (Phd By Published Work)
Oliver Marino
Günther Anders’ Theory of Media and Communication: Developing a Conception of Technological Domination, Alienation and Ideology with Marx Beyond Marx
Syeda Rizvi
Media Consumption and the Construction of Diasporic Identities of Youth of Pakistani Origin in Britain
Shaiju Vadakkemury
Social Media Literacy for Empowering Children with New Literacy Skills for Reading, Writing, and Interacting in the Networked Digital Setting: An Action Research Study of Teenage Students in Mumbai
Ergin Yaman
The Implications of Parental and Child Smartphone Use on Parent-Child and Family Relationships: A Case-Study of The Turkish-Speaking Community in London
2020
Noura Al Obeidli
Emirati Women Journalists Bargaining with Patriarchy in Search of Equality
James Asante
African Politics in the Digital Age: A Study of Political Party-Social Media Campaign Strategies in Ghana
Peter Block
How People Successfully Get In and Get On in the UK Broadcast Television Industry: Implications for Skills Policymakers
Stefan Candea
Cross-border Investigative Journalism: A Critical Perspective
Charusmita Charusmita
Filmi vs the Everyday: Hindi films in the Lives of Women in an Indian Village
Nathasha Edirippulige Fernando
Empathic Narratives: A Case Study of Immigrati/E in Milan Perceiving the ‘Migration Crisis’
Jihad Fakhreddine
Can Arabs Represent America? The Performativity of U.S-Arab Mediated Public Diplomacy
Rachel Langworth
Media Ownership and the Exploitation of Media Power for Corporate Self-interest
Yuqi Na
Exploring Digital Discourse with Chinese Characteristics: Contradictions and Tensions
Wendy Sherer
Contemporary Fictional Representations of Anglican Clergy on British Public Service Television
Evgueni Tchubykalo
Wikipedia Conflict Representation in Articles of War
2019
Antonios Broumas
Intellectual Commons and the Law: Normative Aspects of Commons-Based Peer Production
Simon Das
Managing Creativity in Magazine Publishing: The 4Ps of Creativity
Claudia Fragoso De Oliveira Sarmento
An Alternative Press? New Forms of News Reporting in Brazil
Aliaksandr Herasimenka
Political Organisation, Leadership and Communication in Authoritarian Settings: Digital Activism in Belarus and Russia
Dima Issa
Song is the Secret of Existence: Fairouz and the Arab diaspora in London and Doha
Jamileh Kadivar
Power, Ideology, and Propaganda: A Critical Discourse Study of IS’s Media, 2014-2017
Ola Makki
BBC Arabic TV Service and the Lebanese Audience(s): Can They Engage with Each Other?
Pablo Morales
The Reception of International News Channels in Hispanic Latin America. A study on Audience Response to the Soft Power Endeavours of China, Russia and Iran
Teerada Na Jatturas
@ctivism and Politics in the Digital Era
2018
Mary Culpepper
I Make, Therefore I Am: Agency, Action, Affordance, and the Path to Creative Identity
Musab Iqbal
Identifying ‘Immigrants’ through Violence: Memory, Press, and Archive in the Making of ‘Bangladeshi Migrants’
Istvan Janto-Petnehazi
Grey Areas: A Cross-country Comparative Study of User-Generated Hate Speech, Incivility and Journalistic Responsibility for Online Comments
Duygu Karatas
Occupy Gezi’s Collective Identity and the Role of Twitter in its Construction
I-ching Liao
The Vital Role of Crowdfunding and Social Media in Establishing an Art Career: A ‘How To’
Velisava Hillman
Fostering Creativity Through the use of Digital Tablets: An investigation into the potential of tablet use for creative production among seven-to-ten-year-old children in Malta
Vivien Marsh
A Trojan Dragon? CCTV News in English and the Battle for Global Influence 2014-16
Jose Paulo
Public Service Broadcasting and the Construction of the Angolan Nation: Audiences’ Perceptions of News at 8pm and Muangolé
Tiankai Tang
Creating Mediated Cosmopolitanism? Global Media Flows and the Beijing Youth
2017
Savyasaachi Jain
Characterising Media Systems: Insights from a Case Study of Paid News in India
Laima Janciute
EU politics and the Making of the General Data Protection Regulation: Consociationalism, Policy Networks and Institutionalism in the Process of Balancing Actor Interests
Dianjing Li
Peripheral Alternative: Media and Tibetan nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere
Dinara Tokbaeva
Charismatic Leadership of Media Businesses: A Case Study of Leaders of Two Media Businesses in The Postsoviet States of Russia and Kyrgyzstan (1991-2016)
2016
Yewande Adekunle
Evolving Usage and Access to ICTs in the Health Care Sector in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
Feryal Awan
Occupied Childhoods: Discourses and Politics of Childhood and Their Place in Palestinian and Pan-Arab Screen Content for Children
Miriam Berg
Social and Cultural Factors in the Success of Turkish Drama Series among Arab Audiences in Qatar
Anastasia Denisova
Political Memes as Tools of Dissent and Alternative Digital Activism in the Russian-language Twitter
Yu Gu
Strategies of Newsroom Convergence: Comparing UK and Chinese Newspaper Groups
Xiao Han
Exploring the Relationship between Women’s Empowerment and the Internet in China: Potentials and Constraints
Hong Li
Formatted Entertainment in China: Change in Television Production Practices
Shabnam Moinipour
Iranian Discourse on Human Rights: State TV Coverage and the Views of Iranian Migrants
Martha Onyeajuwa
Assessment of Ordinary Consumer Representation in Liberalised Mobile Telecommunications Markets: A Case Study of Nigeria
Yennue Zarate
Revamping Journalism in the Midst of a Conflict? Mapping the World of Local War Journalists
Dan Zhang
Business-to-Business (B2B) Media in UK: A Mixed Methods Study Using Product Variables to Assess the Impacts of Social Media on Product Strategies
2015
Roji Alex
The Politics of Representation in Indian Media: Implications of the Portrayal of Hindus and Minority Groups
Anulika Agina
Nigerian filmmakers and their construction of a political past (1967-1998)
Graham Bond
Guiding Public Protest: Assessing the Propaganda Model of China’s Hybrid Newspaper Industry
Diana Garrisi
Reading Skin in Victorian Newspapers: An Analysis of British Newspapers’ Coverage of Human Skin, 1840-1900
Lawrie Hallett
The Space Between: Defining the Place for Community Radio
Julia Jones
My Generation: Examining the Music Tastes and Commercial Opportunities within the New Audience of 40-59 Year Olds in the UK
Helena Nassif
Home Under Siege: Bab al-Hara, Televising Morality and Everyday Life in the Levant
James Painter
Media Representations of Uncertainty about Climate Change
Jingwei Piao
Financial Media, Globalisation, and China’s Economic Integration: Comparing Narrative Construction of The Economist and Caijing
Imir Rashid
The Politics of DTT Policy-Making in Bulgaria: The Significance of Path Dependencies and Institutional Characteristics
Nadine El Sayed
From Underground to Elite: Egyptian Bloggers before and after the 2011 Uprising
Neil Stevenson
The Production and Mediatisation of Political Talk Television in Britain, the United States, and Australia
Thu Vu
Managing Vietnamese Newsroom: The Role of Internal Communication
2014
Rikke Bjerg Jensen
Military Media Machine: How the British Military Communicated Afghanistan at Home
Amanda Benson
An Investigation into BBC Radio 4 Comedy Appreciation Ratings (AIs): ‘The cesspool with the Velvet Lid’
Julia Bourgett
Children’s Public Service Broadcasters and Their Challenges in the Online Era: A Comparison between the UK and Germany
Lorenzo Coretti
The Purple Movement: Social Media and Activism in Berlusconi’s Italy
Jelena Dzakula
Co-regulation of Advertising in the United Kingdom: Regulators as Corporate Bodies and the Effect on Citizen Empowerment
Amira Halperin
The Use of New Media by the UK’s Palestinian Diaspora
Janis Juzefovics
Defining the Nation, Defining Public Television: Discourses of Publics on Public Service television in Post-communist Latvia
Guiping Liu
China’s Popular TV Dramas & Their role in the Party’s Political Communication since 2001
Miao Mi
How Newspapers Respond to Technological Change: A Comparison Between the UK and China
Michael Milne
Moving the Goalposts: The Transformation of Television Sport in the UK (1992-2014)
Didem Özkul
Mobile Nodes: Mobile and Locative media, Everyday Life and Sense of Place
Edmundo Bracho-Polanco
Journalism Practice, Media and Democracy in Venezuela (2000-2010)
Tim Riley
Social Media: Digital Content Creation and Sharing. A study of Adults
Pedzisai Ruhanya
Alternative Media and African Democracy: The Daily News and Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe, 1997-2010
Gamze Toylan
Reading The League of Gentlemen: Study of the creation process of a Comedy / Horror series
2013
Najat Alsaied
Development Initiatives in Programming on Privately-owned Arab Satellite Television and Their Teception among Disadvantaged Saudi Women
John Hondros
Traditional Amateur Video Producers’ Use of the Internet: Making Connections in a Complex and Contested Environment
Chris Nineham
Making the News: The Media and the Movement against the Iraq War
2012
Bahjat Abuzanouna
Enhancing Democratic Communication? Television and Partisan Politics in Palestine
Ehsan Bakhshandeh
Politics of Iran-West Relations within the Context of Iranian Occidentalism: Image of the West in the Iranian Press during Reformism (1997-2001) and Conservatism (2005-2009)
Carlos Barreneche Jurado
Localizing the Media, Locating Ourselves: A critical Comparative Analysis of Socio-spatial Sorting in Locative Media Platforms (Google and Flickr 2009-2011)
Dawei Guo
Beyond Totalitarian Nostalgia: A Critical Urban Reception Study of Historical Drama on Contemporary Chinese Television
Jonathan Ilan
Picturing the World’s News: News Photography, Cultural Production, Thomson Reuters and the International Process of News Making
Philip Lin
Global Gamers, Transnational Play, Imaginary Battlefield: Encountering the Gameplay Experience in the War-themed First-person-shooter, Call of Duty
Brilliant Pongo
Online Diasporic Political Spheres: Inside the Emerging Spaces for Zimbabweans
2011
Abdullahi Abubakar
Media Consumption amid Contestation: Northern Nigerians’ Engagement with the BBC World Service
Benedetta Brevini
Towards PSB 2.0?: Applying the PSB Ethos to Online Media in Europe: A Comparative Policy study of Denmark, France and Spain
Shuang Li
The New Generation of Lifestyle Magazine Journalism in China: The Professional Approach
Salvatore Scifo
The Origins and Development of Community Radio in Britain under New Labour (1997-2007)
Yan Yuan
A Different Place in the Making: The Everyday Practices of Rural Migrants in Chinese Urban Villages
2010
Kristin Bredemeier
An Analysis of the Correlation Among Fashion Newspaper Coverage and Public Relations in the United Kingdom
Mascha Brichta
‘Love it or Loath It’: A Cross-national Comparison of Tabloid Reading Experiences in the UK and Germany
Aliaa Dawoud
Utilizing Mass Media in the Political Empowerment of Egyptian Women
Heycan Erhurman
Articulations of Memory in Northern Cyprus: Between Turkishness, Europeanness and Cypriotness
Janne Halttu
The Iraq Crisis of 2003 and Press-State Relations: An Analysis of Press Coverage in Finland, Ireland and the UK
Monica Horten
The Political Battle for Online Content in the European Union: The Enigmatic Case of Telecoms Law Being Commandeered for Copyright
Hsiao-wen Lee
The Public and the Popular Media in China
Mahalakshmi Mahadevan
Engendering Familial Citizens: Serial-viewing among Middle-Class Women in Urban India
Andrea Medrado
The Waves of the Hills: Community and Radio in the Everyday Life of a Brazilian Favela
Brilliant Mhlanga
The Politics of Ethnic Minority Radio in South Africa
Kristin Skoog
The ‘Responsible’ Woman: The BBC and Women’s Radio 1945-1955
Srdjan Stojanovic
Political History of the Serbian Media in Transition (2000-2006)
Maha Taki
Bloggers and the Blogosphere in Lebanon & Syria: Meanings and Activities