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News Coverage of the 2016 EU Referendum<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Principal investigators<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Professor David Deacon<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\u00a0Election news audit since 1992. He has written widely on political communication, election news reporting, media history and communication theory and research methods.<\/p>\n

Professor John Downey<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Dr Emily Harmer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Emily Harmer\u00a0is Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University since 2012.\u00a0 She\u00a0is 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.<\/p>\n

Professor\u00a0James Stanyer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

James Stanyer is Professor of Communication and Media Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences. His research\u00a0interests include news and democracy, new technologies and the exercise of political voice, and the personalisation of political communication.<\/p>\n

Professor\u00a0Dominic Wring<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Dominic Wring is Professor of\u00a0Political Communication\u00a0in the Department of Social Sciences. He has published widely on political marketing, the media, communication and politics.\u00a0 He co-founded and then convened the UK Political Studies Association’s Media Politics Group.<\/p>\n

Research Team members<\/strong><\/p>\n

Simon Huxtable <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019s research focuses on the development of mass media and communications in post-war Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

Herminder Kaur<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Sarah Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Dr David Smith<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

David Smith has just completed his doctorate on national\u00a0newspaper coverage of issues around immigration to Britain during general election campaigns over\u00a0the 25 election campaigns between 1918 and 2010<\/p>\n

Lukas Stepanek<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Dr Ian Taylor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0published in a number of academic journals and current affairs magazines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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2015 UK General Election News Analysis<\/strong><\/h1>\n

This research is supported by a grant from the British Academy\/ Leverhulme Trust (grant reference SG142216)<\/p>\n

Principal investigators<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Professor David Deacon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Election news audit since 1992. He has written widely on political communication, election news reporting, media history and communication theory and research methods.<\/p>\n

Professor John Downey<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Dr James Stanyer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

James Stanyer is Reader in Comparative Political Communication. His research\u00a0interests include news and democracy, new technologies and the exercise of political voice, and the personalisation of political communication.<\/p>\n

Dr Dominic Wring<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Dominic Wring is Reader in Political Communication. He has published widely on political marketing, the media, communication and politics.\u00a0 He co-founded and then convened the UK Political Studies Association’s Media Politics Group.<\/p>\n

Dr Emily Harmer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Emily Harmer\u00a0is Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University since 2012.\u00a0 She\u00a0is 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.<\/p>\n

Research Team members<\/h3>\n

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Dr\u00a0Michael Cotter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Michael\u00a0Cotter \u00a0has just completed his doctorate on the contemporary transformation of comic racism in British popular culture, focusing in particular\u00a0on new formats of digital media including highly popular joke websites.<\/p>\n

Dr David Smith<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

David Smith has just completed his doctorate on national\u00a0newspaper coverage of issues around immigration to Britain during general election campaigns over\u00a0the 25 election campaigns between 1918 and 2010<\/p>\n

Dr Ian Taylor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0published in a number of academic journals and current affairs magazines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Herminder Kaur<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Jonathan\u00a0Duckett<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Bogdana Huma <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Mina Chrysanthou<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mina\u00a0Chrysanthou is completing a Masters Programme in Global Media and Cultural Industries in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University<\/p>\n

Lukas Stepanek<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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