About
News Coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum
Principal investigators
Professor David Deacon
David Deacon is Professor of Communication and Media Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. He has been involved in every Loughborough based Election news audit since 1992. He has written widely on political communication, election news reporting, media history and communication theory and research methods.
John Downey is Professor of Comparative Media in the Department of Social Sciences. His research interests include political communication, digital media, international media and communication theory and research methods.
Emily Harmer is Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University since 2012. She is particularly interested in the relationships between media, politics and gender and the historical development of such relationships. Her PhD examined the representation of women as politicians, voters and relatives of politicians in British election coverage between 1918 and 2010.
James Stanyer is Professor of Communication and Media Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences. His research interests include news and democracy, new technologies and the exercise of political voice, and the personalisation of political communication.
Dominic Wring is Professor of Political Communication in the Department of Social Sciences. He has published widely on political marketing, the media, communication and politics. He co-founded and then convened the UK Political Studies Association’s Media Politics Group.
Research Team members
Simon completed his PhD in history at Birkbeck College, University of London, for which he conducted research in archives in Russia and the United States. Most recently he worked as a Research Associate on the Screening Socialism project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust based at Loughborough University. Simon’s research focuses on the development of mass media and communications in post-war Eastern Europe.
Herminder Kaur is a PhD student in the Department of Social Sciences Loughborough University, researching the use of the internet by teenagers with a physical disability.
Sarah Lewis
Sarah gained her PhD at Loughborough University in 2014. She went on to work at the University of Lincoln where she worked as part of the ESRC funded EmoTICON project . She specialises in researching online health communities and has studied online anorexia forums and online drugs culture.
David Smith has just completed his doctorate on national newspaper coverage of issues around immigration to Britain during general election campaigns over the 25 election campaigns between 1918 and 2010
Lukas Stepanek is a PhD student in the Department of Social Sciences and is researching the new phenomenon of young adults using various supplements and pharmaceuticals to enhance their physical or/and mental performance.
Ian Taylor is a Distance Learning Tutor with the University of Leicester. He was awarded his PhD from Loughborough in 2010 and has since then published in a number of academic journals and current affairs magazines.
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2015 UK General Election News Analysis
This research is supported by a grant from the British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust (grant reference SG142216)
Principal investigators
David Deacon is Professor of Communication and Media Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. He has been involved in every Loughborough based Election news audit since 1992. He has written widely on political communication, election news reporting, media history and communication theory and research methods.
John Downey is Professor of Comparative Media in the Department of Social Sciences. His research interests include political communication, digital media, international media and communication theory and research methods.
James Stanyer is Reader in Comparative Political Communication. His research interests include news and democracy, new technologies and the exercise of political voice, and the personalisation of political communication.
Dominic Wring is Reader in Political Communication. He has published widely on political marketing, the media, communication and politics. He co-founded and then convened the UK Political Studies Association’s Media Politics Group.
Emily Harmer is Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University since 2012. She is particularly interested in the relationships between media, politics and gender and the historical development of such relationships. Her PhD examined the representation of women as politicians, voters and relatives of politicians in British election coverage between 1918 and 2010.
Research Team members
Michael Cotter has just completed his doctorate on the contemporary transformation of comic racism in British popular culture, focusing in particular on new formats of digital media including highly popular joke websites.
David Smith has just completed his doctorate on national newspaper coverage of issues around immigration to Britain during general election campaigns over the 25 election campaigns between 1918 and 2010
Ian Taylor is a Distance Learning Tutor with the University of Leicester. He was awarded his PhD from Loughborough in 2010 and has since then published in a number of academic journals and current affairs magazines.
Herminder Kaur is a PhD student in the Department of Social Sciences Loughborough University, researching the use of the internet by teenagers with a physical disability.
Jonathan Duckett is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at Loughborough University researching Scottish youth citizenship and national identity during the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Scottish independence referendum.
Bogdana Huma is a PhD student in the department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University and is using conversation analysis and discursive psychology to examine commercial services calls.
Mina Chrysanthou is completing a Masters Programme in Global Media and Cultural Industries in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University
Lukas Stepanek is a PhD student in the Department of Social Sciences and is researching the new phenomenon of young adults using various supplements and pharmaceuticals to enhance their physical or/and mental performance.
