Academic Staff

Anstead, Nick (Dr) - Lecturer

• New political communication
• Electoral and campaigning politics
• The changing form of participation, engagement and citizenship
• The evolution of political institutions and their relationship with technology

Staff Page|
Email|
Room S111

Tel. 
020 7955 7529

Banaji, Shakuntala (Dr) - Lecturer

• Children, young people, political contexts and the media
• South Asian media, Hindi cinema, audiences and texts
• Social and civic uses of the internet and youth participation
• Media education, media literacy and creativity

Staff Page|
Email|
Room S103

Tel.
020 7955 6105

Beckett, Charlie - Director Polis|

• Terror and the role of news in community cohesion and public security,
• British and financial journalism in the digital age
• Journalism and the promotion of transparency, governance, economic and social development

Staff Page|
LSE Experts|
Emaill |
Room K104
Tel.
020 7107 5249

Blum-Ross, Alicia (Dr) - LSE Fellow

• Youth and community media
• Ethnographic research including visual, virtual and creative methods
• Citizenship and civic participation
• Media and critical literacy
• Participatory design and community innovation

Staff Page|
Email|
Room S212

Tel.
020 7955 7957

Cammaerts, Bart (Dr) - Senior Lecturer

• Media, power and social change
• Communication and resistance
• Activism and mediation
• Alternative media and community radio

Staff Page|
LSE Experts|
Email |
Room S213

Tel.
020 7955 6649 

Chouliaraki, Lilie (Prof) - Professor of Media and Communications
Director of PhD Programme 

• Mediation and ethics: suffering, violence and war in the media
• Public life and citizenship
• Corporate communication
• Text- and discourse-based research methods

Staff Page|
LSE Experts|
Email|
Room S102

Tel.
020 7852 3790  

Georgiou, Myria (Dr) - Lecturer, Director of Graduate Studies

• Diaspora, migration and transnationalism
• Media, the city and cosmopolitanism
• Identity, community and the media
• Media consumption and identity construction

Staff page
LSE Experts|
Email
Room S119a

Tel.
020 7955 6177

Helsper, Ellen (Dr) - Lecturer

•  Links between social and digital exclusion
• Mediated interpersonal and social relationships: social identity, intimacy and psychological wellbeing
• Cross-cultural comparisons of media in everyday life
• Quantitative methods in media and communications research

Staff Page|
LSE Experts|
Email| 
Room S119c

Tel.
020 7955 6420

Livingstone, Sonia (Prof) - Professor of Social Psychology, Head of Department

• Children and young People's online opportunities and risks
• Media literacy, public engagement and critical audiences
• Social and domestic contexts for the use of ICT
• Television audiences, audience reception, media effects

Staff page|
LSE Experts|
Email|
Room S105

Tel.
020 7955 7710

Mansell, Robin (Prof) - Professor of New Media and the Internet, Chair of Exam Sub-Board

• Social and organisational transformation and new technologies
• Knowledge networks and innovation systems
• Information and communication technologies, development and inequality
• Information and communication policy and regulation

Staff page|
LSE Experts|
Email|
Room S107

Tel.
020 7955 6380

Manyozo, Linje (Dr) - Lecturer

• Communication for development and social change
• Community and stakeholder engagement
• Participatory action research
• Visual anthropology

Staff page|
LSE Experts|
Email|
Room S119d

Tel.
020 7852 3738

Meng, Bingchun (Dr) - Lecturer

• Political economy of media and information industries
• ICT and development
• Copyright law and communication
• Chinese media in a globalising era 

On sabbatical Michaelmas Term 2011

Staff page|
LSE Experts| 
Email| 
Room S108

Tel.
020 7107 5020  

Orgad, Shani (Dr) - Lecturer

• Representation in the context of globalisation
• Media, storytelling and narrative
• New media and everyday life
• Qualitative methods of media research

On research leave Lent Term 2012

Staff page|
LSE Experts| 
Email| 
Room S110

Tel.
020 7955 6493

Powell, Alison (Dr) - LSE Fellow

• Digital activism and digital advocacy
• Democratic communication spaces
• New media, participation, and publics
• Internet governance
• Qualitative methods in and for policy research

Staff page|
LSE Experts| 
Email| 
Room S119d

Tel. +44 20 7107 5026

Rantanen, Terhi (Prof) - Professor of Global Media & Communications

• Global media
• Global news
• Post-communist media
• Media history and history of media studies

On sabbatical and research leave from Michaelmas Term 2011, returning Michaelmas 2012

Staff page|
LSE Experts|
Email|
Room S106a

Tel.
020 7955 6401

Ruiz, Pollyanna (Dr) - LSE Fellow

• The movement of political ideas from the margins to the mainstream
• The communicative strategies of coalition protest movements such as the anti-globalisation movement, the anti-war movement and the coalitions against cuts
• The relationship between non-violent activists and more confrontational protesters
• Fractured and fractious models of the public sphere

Staff page|
Email|
Room S214

Tel.
020 7955 7957

Tambini, Damian (Dr) - Senior Lecturer

• Changing relations among states, governments, law and media
• Public service broadcasting, freedom of speech, intellectual property, the 'commons'.
• Media, ethics, self regulation and global institutions
• Media, democracy, civil society and the public sphere

Staff page|
LSE Experts  |
Email|
Room S119e

Tel.
020 7955 6243