Professor Simon Cottle
Professor Emeritus Media and Communication
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Overview
Summary
Simon Cottle is Professor Emeritus, Media and Communication, in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University where he was formerly Head of School (2013-2015) and Deputy Head of School (2008-2013). Before this he was Inaugural Chair and Head of the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne and has held honorary professorships at various universities internationally.
Simon is the author of 13 books and c150 articles, chapters and reports on media, conflicts and global crises. Recent books include: Global Crisis Reporting (2009),Transational Protests and the Media (Ed. with L.Lester)(2011), Disasters and the Media (with M.Pantti and K.Wahl-Jorgensen (2012), Humanitarianism, Communication and Change (Ed. with G.Cooper)(2015), and Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security (with R.Sambrook and N.Mosdell)(2016).
Current Research
Simon is now writing and lecturing on ecological and civilizational collapse and how journalism can and must perform better in communicating pathways to transition and processes of societal transformation. He is currently writing Reporting Civilizational Collapse: A Wake-Up Call (Routledge 2023) and Communicating a World-in-Crisis (Ed.)(Peter Lang 2023), and contemplating a further volume, The Owl of Minerva takes Flight at Dusk: Communicating Deep Ecology in an Age of Transformation. Simon offers guest lectures to universities around the world on these subjects.
Global Crises and the Media Series
Simon is also Series Editor of the Global Crises and the Media series published by Peter Lang - a series of 27 plus research monographs and edited volumes. The series aims to examine and theorize the complex roles and current performance of media and communications in some of the most profound challenges confronting the world today. Prospective authors are welcome to get in touch to discuss their ideas for a resarch monograph or edited volume (CottleS@cardiff.ac.uk).
Series titles to-date include the following:
1) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. (2009) (Eds.) S. Allan & E. Thorsen.
2) Terror Post 9/11 and the Media. (2009) D. Altheide.
3) Climate Change and the Media. (2009) (Eds.) J. Lewis & T. Boyce.
4) Transnational Protests and the Media. (2011) (Eds.) S. Cottle & L. Lester.
5) Migrations and the (2011) (Eds.) K. Moore, B. Gross & T. Threadgold.
6) Disasters and the Media. (2012) M. Pantti, K. Wahl-Jorgensen & S. Cottle.
7) Environmental Conflict and the Media (2013) (Eds.) L. Lester & B. Hutchins.
8) Global Journalism: Theory and Practice (2013) P. Berglez.
9) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume II. (2014) (Eds.) E. Thorsen & S. Allan.
10) Pandemics and the Media (2015) M. Levina.
11) Patents, Pills and the Press: The Rise and Fall of the Global HIV/AIDS Medicines Crisis in the News. (2015) T. Owen.
12) Global News: Reporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism (2015) A. Robertson.
13) Worker Resistance and Media: Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century. (2015) L.Dencik & P. Wilkin.
14) The Dynamics of Mediatized Conflicts. (2015) (Eds.) M. Eskjær, S. Hjarvard & M. Mortensen.
15) Humanitarianism, Communications, and Change. (2015) (Eds.) S. Cottle & G. Cooper.
16) Human Rights and the Media. (2016) S. Dias
17) Climate Change and the Media, Volume II. (2016) (Eds.) J. Lewis & B.Brevini
18) Communication and Political Crisis: Media and Governance in a Globalized Public Sphere. (2016) B. McNair.
19) Media and the Ukraine Crisis: Hybrid Media Practices and Narratives of Conflict, (2016)(Ed.) M. Pantti.
20) Mourning News: Reporting of Violent Death in the Global News. (2017) T. Morse.
21) Media and Transnational Climate Justice (2018) (Eds.) A.Roosvall and M.Tegelberg.
22) Debating Migration as a Public Issue (2018) (Eds.)C.Beciu, M, Ciocea, I.Madroane, & A. Carlan.
23) The Mediation of Financial Crises (2020) S. Knowles.
24) The Ethics of Sustainable Communication (forthcoming) U.Olausson.
25) Mediatized Environmental Lawfare (forthcoming) C.Konkes.
26) Communicating a World-in-Crisis (forthcoming) (Ed.) S.Cottle.
27) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume III. (forthcoming) (Eds.) S.Allan & E. Thorsen.
Biography
Simon Cottle is Professor Emeritus of Media and Communication in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University where he was formerly Head of School (2013-2015) and Deputy Head of School (2008-2013). Before this he was Inaugural Chair and Head of the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne and has held honorary professorships at various universities internationally.
Publications
2021
- Cottle, S. 2021. Humanitarian imagery: Historical registers in the representation of atrocity. In: Chouliaraki, L. and Jorgensen, A. V. eds. Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. Routledge International Handbooks Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 351-372.
2018
- Cottle, S. 2018. Journalism coming of (global) age, II. Journalism 20(1), pp. 102-105.
2017
- Cottle, S. 2017. Communication, human insecurity and the responsibility to protect. In: Robinson, P. ed. Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. Routledge
2016
- Cottle, S., Sambrook, R. and Mosdell, N. 2016. Reporting dangerously: journalist killings, intimidation and security. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-1-137-40670-5)
2015
- Cottle, S. 2015. Humanitarianism, human insecurity, and communications: What's changing in a globalised world?. In: Cottle, S. and Cooper, G. eds. Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media Peter Lang Publishing Inc, pp. 19-38.
- Cottle, S. and Hughes, C. M. 2015. The United Nations' 'responsibility to protect' and the world's press: establishing a new humanitarian norm?. In: Hoffmann, J. and Hawkins, V. eds. Communication and Peace: Mapping an Emerging Field. Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 76-91., (10.4324/9781315773124-6)
- Cottle, S. and Cooper, G. eds. 2015. Humanitarianism, communication and change. New York: Peter Lang.
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2015. Transnational protests, publics and media participation (in an environmental age). In: Hansen, A. and Cox, R. eds. Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. Routledge, pp. 100-110.
2014
- Cottle, S. 2014. Rethinking media and disasters in a global age: What’s changed and why it matters. Media, War and Conflict 7(1), pp. 3-22. (10.1177/1750635213513229)
- Cottle, S. 2014. Mediating the environment: modalities of TV news. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment. Critical Concepts in the Environment Abingdon: Routledge
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2014. Visualizing climate change: television news and ecological citizenship. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment. Critical Concepts in the Environment Abingdon: Taylor & Francis
- Cottle, S. 2014. Journalists witnessing disasters: from the calculus of death to the injunction to care. In: Chouliaraki, L. and Blaagaard, B. eds. Cosmopolitanism and the New News Media. Journalism Studies Vol. 14/2. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 83-99., (10.1080/1461670X.2012.718556)
2013
- Cottle, S. and Matthews, J. 2013. U.S. TV news and communicative architecture: between manufacturing consent and mediating democracy. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57(4), pp. 562-578. (10.1080/08838151.2013.845831)
- Cottle, S. 2013. Environmental conflict in a global, media age: beyond dualisms. In: Lester, L. and Hutchins, B. eds. Environmental Conflict and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 13. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 13-28.
- Cottle, S. 2013. Journalists witnessing disaster: From the calculus of death to the injunction to care. Journalism Studies 14(2), pp. 232-248. (10.1080/1461670X.2012.718556)
- Cottle, S. 2013. Ulrich Beck, 'risk society' and the media: a catastrophic view?. In: Hansen, A. ed. Media and the Environment: Environment, Media and Environmental Communication., Vol. 1. Routledge
2012
- Cottle, S. 2012. Mediatized disasters in the Global Age: on the ritualization of catastrophe. In: Alexander, J. C., Jacobs, R. and Smith, P. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Oxford Handbooks in Politics & International Relations Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 259-283.
- Cottle, S. 2012. Series Editor's Preface. In: Moore, K., Gross, B. and Threadgold, T. R. eds. Migrations and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 6. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. ix-x.
- Pantti, M., Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Cottle, S. 2012. Disasters and the media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 7. New York: Peter Lang.
2011
- Cottle, S. 2011. Arab uprisings, media inscriptions. Re-public: Re-Imagining Democracy
- Cottle, S. 2011. Cell phones, camels and the global call for democracy. In: Mair, J. and Keeble, R. L. eds. Mirage In The Desert? Reporting The 'Arab Spring'. Bury St. Edmunds: Amina Publishing, pp. 196-210.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Taking global crises in the news seriously: notes from the dark side of globalization. Global Media and Communication 7(2), pp. 77-95. (10.1177/1742766511410217)
- Cottle, S. 2011. Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: research notes. Journalism 12(5), pp. 647-659. (10.1177/1464884911410017)
- Cottle, S. 2011. Camels, cell phones and the global call for democracy. Presented at: Mirage in the Desert: Reporting the Arab Spring, Coventry, UK, 15 June 2011.
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2011. Global 24/7 news providers: emissaries of global dominance or global public sphere?. In: Gripsrud, J. et al. eds. The Public Sphere. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 321-343.
- Matthews, J. and Cottle, S. 2011. Television news ecology in the United Kingdom: a study of communicative architecture, its production and meanings. Television New Media 13(2), pp. 103-123. (10.1177/1527476411403630)
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. 2011. Transnational protests and the media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. New York and Oxford: Peter Lang.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Afterword: Media and the Arab uprisings 2011. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 293-304.
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. 2011. Transnational protests and the media: an introduction. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 3-15.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Transnational Protests and the Media: new developments, challenging debates. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. New York ; Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 17-40.
- Cottle, S. and Lester, L. 2011. Transnational protests and the media: toward global civil society?. In: Cottle, S. and Lester, L. eds. Transnational Protests and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 10. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 287-291.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Television agora and agoraphobia post-September 11. In: Zelizer, B. and Allan, S. eds. Journalism after September 11. Communication and Society London: Routledge, pp. 232-251.
- Cottle, S. 2011. Hawkins, Virgil: Stealth conflicts: how the world’s worst violence is ignored - 234pp, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot 2008, £55.00, ISBN 978-0-7546-7506-8 [Book Review]. Journalism Studies 12(1), pp. 130-132. (10.1080/1461670X.2010.534596)
2010
- Cottle, S. 2010. Global cries and world news ecology. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 473-484.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Foreward. In: Matthews, J. ed. Producing Serious News for Citizen Children: A Study of the BBC’s Children’s Program 'Newsround'. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. v-ix.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Global crises and world news ecology. In: Allan, S. ed. The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 473-484.
- Cottle, S. 2010. Forward. In: Samuel-Azran, T. ed. Al Jazeera and US War Coverage. New York: Peter Lang, pp. ix-xi.
- Rai, M. and Cottle, S. 2010. Global news revisited: mapping the contemporary landscape of satellite television news. In: Cushion, S. and Lewis, J. M. W. eds. The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 51-79.
2009
- Nolan, D. and Cottle, S. 2009. How the media’s codes and rules influence the ways NGOs work. Nieman Journalism Lab
- Cottle, S. 2009. Series editor's preface. In: Boyce, T. and Lewis, J. M. W. eds. Climate Change and the Media. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 5. New York: Peter Lang, pp. vii-xi.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Series editor's preface. In: Allan, S. and Thorsen, E. eds. Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. Global Crises and the Media Vol. 1. New York: Peter Lang, pp. ix-xii.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Participant observation: researching news production. In: Hansen, A. ed. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: SAGE Publications, pp. 260-285.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Analysing visuals: still and moving images. In: Hansen, A. ed. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods London: SAGE Publications, pp. 227-254.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Global crises in the news: Staging new wars, disasters and climate change. International Journal of Communication 3, pp. 494-516.
- Lester, L. and Cottle, S. 2009. Visualizing climate change: Television news and ecological citizenship. International Journal of Communication 3, pp. 920-936.
- Cottle, S. 2009. Journalism studies: coming of (global) age?. Journalism 10(3), pp. 309-311. (10.1177/1464884909102573)
- Cottle, S. 2009. Analysing visuals. Still and moving images. In: Hansen, A. et al. eds. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Vol. 3. SAGE Publications, pp. 227-254.
- Cottle, S. 2009. New(s) times: towards a "Second Wave" of news ethnography. In: Hansen, A. et al. eds. Mass Communication Research Methods. SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Vol. 1. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 366-386.
2008
- Cottle, S. 2008. Humanitarian NGOs and news media: Relations of communicative power in the global age. Presented at: The Mediatisation of Humanitarian Crises, London, UK, 13 November 2008.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Global crisis reporting: Journalism in the global age. Issues in Cultural and Media Studies. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Journalism and globalization. In: Wahl-Jorgensen, K. and Hanitzsch, T. eds. Handbook of Journalism Studies. International Communication Association Handbook London: Routledge, pp. 341-356.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Reporting demonstrations: The changing media politics of dissent. Media, Culture & Society 30(6), pp. 853-872. (10.1177/0163443708096097)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Global 24/7 news providers: emissaries of global dominance or global public sphere?. Global Media and Communication 4(2), pp. 157-181. (10.1177/1742766508091518)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in South Africa: Mediating an emerging democracy. Journal of South African Studies 34(2), pp. 343-358. (10.1080/03057070802038017)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in India: mediating democracy and difference. International Communication Gazette 70(1), pp. 76-96. (10.1177/1748048507084579)
- Cottle, S. 2008. 'Mediatized rituals': a reply to Couldry and Rothenbuhler. Media, Culture & Society 30(1), pp. 135-140. (10.1177/0163443707084351)
- Cottle, S. 2008. Social drama in a mediatized world: The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. In: St. John, G. ed. Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 109-124.
- Cottle, S. 2008. Conflict as media content. In: Donsbach, W. ed. The International Encyclopedia of Communication., Vol. III. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 915-917., (10.1111/b.9781405131995.2008.x)
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2008. Television news in Singapore: mediating conflict and consent. Asian Journal of Social Science 36(3 - 4), pp. 638-658. (10.1163/156853108X327137)
2007
- Cottle, S. and Nolan, D. 2007. Global humanitarianism and the changing aid-media field: "Everyone was dying for footage". Journalism Studies 8(6), pp. 862-878. (10.1080/14616700701556104)
- Cottle, S. 2007. Ethnography and news production: new(s) developments in the field. Sociology Compass 1(1), pp. 1-16. (10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00002.x)
- Cottle, S. 2007. Mediatized recognition and the “Other”. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy 123, pp. 34-38.
2006
- Cottle, S. 2006. Mediatized conflict: Developments in media and conflict studies. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
- Cottle, S. and Rai, M. 2006. Between display and deliberation: analyzing TV news as communicative architecture. Media Culture Society 28(2), pp. 163-189. (10.1177/0163443706061680)
2004
- Cottle, S. 2004. The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence: media performance and public transformation. Praeger.
- Cottle, S. 2004. Producing nature(s): on the changing production ecology of natural history TV. Media Culture & Society 26(1), pp. 81-101. (10.1177/0163443704039494)
1998
- Cottle, S. 1998. Ulrich Beck, "Risk Society" and the Media: A Catastrophic View?. European Journal of Communication 13(1), pp. 5-32. (10.1177/0267323198013001001)
Teaching
Simon has taught and written extensively on conflict and global crisis reporting, including environment, ecology and climate change; transnational protests and demonstrations; riots and civil insurrection; wars and terror; ethnicity and racism; and disasters and humanitarian catastrophes. He now lectures and writes on ecological and civilizational collapse and how journalism can and must perform better in communicating pathways to transition and processes of societal transformation. He is currently writing Reporting Civilizational Collapse: A Wake-Up Call (Routledge 2023) and Communicating a World-in-Crisis (Peter Lang 2023) and contemplating writing a thrd volume, The Owl of Minerva takes Flight at Dusk: Communicating Deep Ecology in an Age of Transformation. Simon offers guest lectures to universities around the world on these subjects.
Current Research
Simon's current resarch builds on his work on global crisis reporting. He now writes and lectures on ecological and civilizational collapse and how journalism can and must perform better in communicating pathways to transition and processes of societal transformation. He is currently writing Reporting Civilizational Collapse: A Wake-Up Call (Routledge 2023), and Communicating a World-in-Crisis (Ed. Peter Lang), and thinking about writing a further volume, The Owl of Minerva takes Flight at Dusk: Communicating Deep Ecology in an Age of Transformation. He is also writing about ecologicsal dissimulation in war reporting in the context of today's world-in-crisis (forthcoming) and other writings on communications ina world-in-crisis. Simon offers guest lectures to universities around the world on these and other subjects.
Simon’s views on the unprecedented and catastrophic nature of global crises and their critical dependence on rapidly changing media and communications, are found in his book Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age (Open University Press 2009) and his recent and future publications such as:
Reporting Civilizational Collapse: A Wake-Up Call.' (Routledge 2023, forthcoming)
Communicating a World-in-Crisis. (Ed. Peter Lang, 2023, forthcoming)
'Reporting Civilisational Collapse: Research Notes from a World-in-Crisis' (article, forthcoming)
'Ukraine Reporting: Ecological Dissimulation in a Dying world.' in M.Pantti and M.Mortessen (Eds) Media and the Ukraine Crisis.Volume II. New York: Peter Lang 2023.
'On the Edge of the World: Peace and Conflict Reporting in a World-in-Crisis' pp.10-31. In K.Orgeret (Ed) Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting.' (2022) London: Routledge.
‘Taking Global Crises in the News Seriously: Notes From the Dark Side of Globalization’, Global Media and Communication, (2011), 7(2): 77-95.
Other recent publications include:
(2022) ‘Protests, Publics and Participation (still in an Environmental Age)’ With L. Lester in A. Hansen and R. Cox (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication. London: Routledge 2nd revised edition.
(2021) ‘Humanitarian Imagery: Historical Registers in the Representation of Atrocity’ pp. 351-372 in L.Chouliaraki and A.Vestergaard (Eds.) Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. London: Routledge.
(2021) ‘COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call. But Who’s Listening?’ Three-D Issue 35, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), pp.5-6 (10.3.21) https://www.meccsa.org.uk/nl/three-d-issue-35-a-wake-up-call-but-whos-listening/
or: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2om9icsxet2ewu5/MeCCSA-ThreeD-Issue35-v1.pdf?dl=0
(2020) ‘Reporting Covid-19: A Wake-Up Call? InPublishing 14/12/2020 (https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/reporting-covid-19-a-wake-up-call-17028)
(2020) ‘Reporting COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call to our World-In-Crisis?’ in J. Mair. (Ed) The Pandemic, Where are we still Going Wrong: A Very Public Inquiry ? pp.187-192. Goring: Bite Sized Books.
(2019) ‘Journalism Coming of (Global) Age, II.’ Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 20(1): 102-105.
(2019) ‘Beyond Rwanda? Reporting Atrocity in a Changing Communication Environment.’ pp. 159-181. In A. Thompson (Ed.) Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond. Canada: CIGI Press.
(2017) ‘Journalist Killings and the Responsibility to Report’ pp.21-32 in Ulla Carlson and Reeta Pöyhtäri (Eds.) The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression. Gothenburg: Nordicom.
(2017) ‘Communication, Human (In)Security and the Responsibility to Protect’ pp.321- 333 in P. Robinson, P. Seib & R. Fröhlich, (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Media, Conflict and Security. London: Taylor and Francis.
Supervision
Past projects
Ph.D. Principal Supervisor, Muhammed Ilyas, 'A Case Sudy of how news media operated in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) during the 'war on terror.' JOMEC, Cardiff University (2015-2022)
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Ahmed Othman, ‘Disaster and Democratic Communications: A Case Study of Oman TV News Coverage of Natural Disasters.’ JOMEC, Cardiff University (2015-2022)
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Idil Osman, ‘The Role of the Somali Media in Somalia’s Ongoing Civil War’, JOMEC, Cardiff University (2011-2015)
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Susana Dampio Dias ‘Humanitarian Rights and Portuguese Television’ JOMEC, Cardiff University (2009-2014)
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Phansasiri Kularb ‘Thai Journalism and the Reporting of Thailand’s Southern Conflict’ JOMEC, Cardiff University (2009-2013)
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Jonathan Cable ‘Protest in Action: An Examination of the Production, Media Representation and Reflexivity of Protest Group Communications Strategies and Protest Tactics' JOMEC, Cardiff University (2007-2012)
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Max Pettigrew ‘The Oxygen of Publicity and the Suffocation of Censorship: British Newspaper Representations of the Broadcasting Ban (1988-1994)’, JOMEC, Cardiff University (2010-2011)
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Adeyinka Oduwole, ‘Publics, Policy-Making and Democracy in the European Union: Regulating the Audiovisual Media Services Sector’ JOMEC, Cardiff University (2006-2009)
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Alexander Puplampu, ‘Radio Ghana’s coverage of HIV/Aids in Prime-Time Radio News.’ JOMEC, Cardiff University, (2005-2008)
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Colleen Murrell, University of Melbourne, ‘Publicly Funded International Broadcasting in a New Age: Politics, Purposes and Propaganda’ (2004 - 2006)
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Mugdha Rai, University of Melbourne, ‘Media Representations of State Sovereignty: A Comparative Study of International Law Debates in Australia, the US and India’ (2004 - 2006).
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Tal Azran, University of Melbourne, ‘”Contra-Flow” in Global News: A Case Study of U.S. Media’s Re-presentation of Al-Jazeera’s News Material in the Wake of 9/11 (2002 - 2006).
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Libby Lester, University of Melbourne, ‘Contesting Wilderness: Media, Movement and Environmental Conflict in Tasmania’ (2004-2005).
Ph.D Principal Supervisor, Julian Matthews, Brunel University, ‘Childrens' TV News: Production and Representations of Risk’ (Sept 1997 - 2001).
