Terese Mendiguren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). She holds a PhD in Journalism from the UPV/EHU. She is Vice Dean of Communication and Social Projection of the Faculty of Social Science and Communication. She has teaching experience in undergraduate degrees, but also in two official master's degrees: Master's Degree in Multimedia Journalism - El Correo (in spanish) and Master's Degree in Multimedia Communication - EITB (in basque). She dedicated her doctoral thesis to the citizen participation in the press and media. She has been academic secretary of the Department of Journalism (2015/2021).
The research projects in which she has participated are fundamentally based on the Journalism-social networks binomial. She is currently researching about the training and the needs of future communicators with disabilities at her university, in collaboration with the ONCE Foundation. During her time at LSE, Mendiguren will continue exploring on the perceptions of students of communication with disabilities, and will start a new line of research linked to disability activism and hate speech.
Her incorporation into the academic field has been preceded by almost a decade dedicated to professional journalism in news media writing and television.