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Mr Nick Mosdell - BSc (Wales), MPhil (Wales)

Overview

Nick Mosdell Position: Deputy Director MA International Public Relations and Global Communications Management Email: MosdellN1@cardiff.ac.uk
 Telephone: +44 (0)29 208 70102
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Extension: 70102
Location: Room 1.29, Bute Building

Nick Mosdell is the Deputy Director MA International Public Relations and Global Communications Management, he teaches Research Methods modules to Masters students and is actively engaged in research within the School.

Research Interests

  • The media and the military
  • Perception and reception in television news
  • Public relations research

Teaching

Publications

Franklin, B., Hogan, M., Langley, Q., Mosdell, N. & Pill, E. (2009) Key Concepts in Public Relations. London: Sage.

Mosdell, N. (2007) Embedded Reporters. International Encyclopedia For Communication. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Messenger Davies, M. & Mosdell, N. (2006) Practical Research Methods for Media and Cultural Studies: Making People Count. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-2185-7

Bookcover by Mr Nick Mosdell

Lewis, J., Brookes, R., Mosdell, N. & Threadgold, T. (2006) Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the 2003 Iraq War. Peter Lang. ISBN 0-8204-7418-5

Messenger Davies, M. & Mosdell, N. (2004) The Representation of Children in the Media: Aspects of Agency and Literacy. In Goddard, J., McNamee, S., James, A. & James, A., (Eds.) The Politics of Childhood. Palgrave MacMillan.

Threadgold, T. & Mosdell, N. (2004) Embedded Reporting in War and Peace. Defence Management Journal. Issue 25, 1.

Too Close For Comfort? The Role of Embedded Reporting in the 2003 Iraq War: Summary Report. Cardiff School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies. 2004. With Brookes, R., Lewis, J., & Threadgold, T. ISBN 0-9540884-1-7

Creating Spaces (2003) Keys toImagination: ICT in Art Education. Arts Council England.Bookcover of Too Close for Comfort by Nick Mosdell

Messenger Davies, M. & Mosdell, N. (2001) Consenting Children? The Use of Children in Non-Fiction Television Programmes. BSC. ISBN 1-872521-46-0

In a previous life:

Ellis, H.D., Jones, D.M., & Mosdell, N. (1997) Intra- and inter-modal repetition priming of familiar faces and voices. British Journal of Psychology, 88, 143-156.

Jones, D.M., Macken, W.J., & Mosdell, N. (1997) The role of habituation in the disruption of recall performance. British Journal of Psychology, 88, 549-564.

Bookcover by Nick Mosdell

Jones, D.M., Alford, D.K., Mosdell, N., & Nicholls, A. (1998) Auditory distraction and memory: The role of auditory streaming. Proceedings of Noise Effects '98.

Jones, D.M., Macken, W.J., & Mosdell, N. (1997) Acoustic and organisational factors in the processing of irrelevant sound. In A. Schick & M. Klatte (Eds.) Contributions to psychological acoustics: The seventh Oldenburg symposium on psychological acoustics. Oldenburg Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Univesitat Oldenburg, 503-520.

Macken, W.J., Mosdell, N., & Jones, D.M. (1999) Exploring the irrelevant sound effect: Temporal distinctiveness or changing state? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 25, 810-814.

Macken, W.J., Mosdell, N., & Jones, D.M. (in preparation) Facilitation and inhibition in cross-modal Stroop effects: The influence of stimulus onset asynchrony and trial probability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.

Research

Current Research


Journalism Safety

With Amy Luther (PhD); Professor Richard Tait; Dr Cynthia Carter

An ongoing project at JOMEC, in collaboration with the International News Safety Institute (INSI), looking at the deaths of media workers over the past ten years. This work considers all media workers, journalists and also support staff, and has built a database of reports of deaths, including details of the circumstances, and the perpetrators and any legal outcomes as a result of their identification. In March 2007 this data contributed significantly to the global inquiry launched by Rodney Pinder of INSI and Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC’s Global News division.

View details of the final report for the inquiry, Killing the Messenger


Recent Research


Media Coverage of the 2003 Iraq War

With Professor Terry Threadgold; Professor Justin Lewis; Dr Rod Brookes

A BBC funded research project investigating the role of embedded reporters (those travelling with Coalition troops) on the UK television coverage of the war. This project involved a large-scale audience survey, focus groups with members of the public (including British Muslims), content analysis of UK television news coverage of the three weeks of official combat operations, and interviews with news chiefs, editors and journalists from UK news organisations, as well as with military media operations personnel at both the Ministry of Defence and at the Pentagon.

Outcomes
  • Brookes, R., Lewis, J., Threadgold, T. and Mosdell, N. (2004) Too Close for Comfort? The Role of Embedded Reporting in the 2003 Iraq War: Summary Report, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. ISBN 0-9540884-1-7
  • Threadgold, T. and Mosdell, N. (2004) Embedded Reporting in War and Peace, Defence Management Journal, 25 (1) 12 – 15. ISSN 1464-2646
  • Lewis, J., Brookes, R., Mosdell, N. and Threadgold, T, (2006) Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the 2003 Iraq War. Peter Lang, North America. ISBN 0-8204-7418-5
Asylum and Refugees

With Professor Terry Threadgold

A content analysis of three months of UK television coverage concerning the closure of the Red Cross camp at Sangatte, near Calais in France, in 2003. This contributed to several seminars held by the Global Campaign for Free Expression – Article 19 – and the full report, What’s The Story? Results from research into the media coverage of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.

The report can be viewed at What's the story?

 

Children and Television

With Professor Máire Messenger Davies

A study funded by the Broadcasting Standards Commission (now Ofcom) that considered the role of children in non-fictional television programmes on UK television, using extended quasi-focus groups with families to explore issues of consent to participate and the regulatory framework in which children participate in television shows.

Findings were presented at various international conferences and UK forums and the final report can be viewed at Consenting Children

Outcomes
  • Messenger Davies, M. and Mosdell, N. (2001) Consenting Children? The Use of Children in Non-Fiction Television Programmes  Broadcasting Standards Commission, London. ISBN 1-872521-46-0
  • Messenger Davies, M. and Mosdell, N. (2004) The Representation of Childhood in the Media: Aspects of Agency and Literacy, in The Politics of Childhood, (Editors Goddard, J., McNamee, S., James, A. and James, A.), Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, 208 – 225. ISBN 1-4039-3551-3

Postgraduate Students

MA Supervisions

Currently supervising eleven MA students in International Public Relations, and three undergraduate dissertations.

Previous supervised theses have concerned International Public Relations.

Biography

He graduated from Cardiff University in 1990 with a BSc in Applied Psychology, and was subsequently employed by the School of Psychology as a research assistant/associate on various projects within the field of cognitive psychology. While employed there he completed an MPhil thesis (by research): "An investigation of a face-based security access system."

He joined the School of Journalism Media and Cultural Studies in October 2000 to work with Máire Messenger Davies on the Broadcasting Standards Commission project concerning the regulation, representation and perception of children on television. Other research projects have included the representation of asylum seekers/refugees in UK television news and the reporting of the 2003 Iraq war.