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Emma Hughes

Overview

Emma Hughes Position: PhD Research Student Email: HughesE@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44 (0)29 208 75688
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Extension: 75688
Location: Room 1.24, Bute Building

PhD Research

A Nation's Nature: The public discourse of the UK's GM crop debate

Emma's phd focuses on the debate over genetically modfieds in the UK. It explores how sources and audiences utilise two key concepts - nature and nation - and how these shape this contentious debate.

Background

Emma spent several years working as a researcher in Cardiff, looking at how a range of scientific and envrionmental risk issues are covered in the media.

When she isn't writing her thesis Emma can be found at the development charity ActionAid working as an International Campaigner on Food Rights."

Supervisor: Professor Jenny Kitzinger