Senior Lecturer in Journalism
I am a Senior Lecturer in journalism and Programme Leader for MA Journalism / MA Journalism (Sport).
My research interests include journalism and diversity, sports journalism and discrimination, investigative journalism and models for sustaining public interest reporting.
I supervise PhDs on journalism and teach a range of undergraduate and postgraduate journalism modules.
I previously led a Google DNI-funded research project aimed at helping journalists investigate and report social media abuse.
Teaching and supervision
Research interests for potential research students
- Journalism and diversity
- Sports journalism and discrimination
- Investigative journalism
Research
I am leading a Google DNI-funded project which will create an app for researching social media abuse. The Social Media Abuse Research Tool (SMART) will help journalists investigate a range of abuse, threats, and hate speech on Twitter. The project is a collaboration between journalism and computing specialists at the University of Sunderland.
My other research interests involve discrimination in sport and the media. This covers diversity in journalism, racism in the sports media, and football-related hate speech on social media.
I have also researched the state and nature of investigative journalism today, looking at audiences and business models for sustaining this form of public interest media.
- Social media abuse
- Diversity and sports journalism
- Racism and the sports media
- Membership models for funding journalism
