Mel started following the work of Charlotte Greenhalgh, University of Oxford, History.
Mel started following the work of Shuaishuai He, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment.
Mel Going to the American Political Science Association conference in New Orleans in September! Who says academia isn't glamorous?
Mel
Looking forward to being part of the BBC World Service 80 years celebration debate tonight on "The Future of International Broadcasting" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme
Graduate Student, Department of Politics and International Relations
University of London, Birkbeck College, Media and Cultural Studies
DPhil Candidate
Green Templeton College
Thesis Title: Journalism in Crises: The production of international news stories on conflict in East Africa
About
I'm a doctoral student at Oxford University, where I'm writing my thesis on foreign correspondents and the international news coverage of conflict and crisis in East Africa.
My thesis draws on fieldwork in Sudan, Kenya and Uganda, and the data is analysed within a Bourdieusian framework. I'm now in the final write up stage, and plan to be completed by May 2012.
My specific research interests include financial drivers of news content; news values and news routines & how these are constructed; African voices in the international coverage and de/colonisation of information flows.
I'm also a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, where I teach a course called "Government and Ethics for Journalists"; and I teach a course at Advanced Studies in England, Bath Spa, called, "The Media in Britain" for third year undergraduate students from the US.
I'm very involved in my college at Oxford (Green-Templeton College, which hosts the Reuters Institute of Journalism Studies) and I also enjoy rowing and playing rugby.
