Seminar programme

Each year, our staff and students are invited to a range of seminars that touch on the most relevant topics and emerging research in the study of journalism, media and communication.

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If you'd like to suggest a speaker for a future research seminar, please email the seminar series coordinator Maria Tomlinson (maria.tomlinson@sheffield.ac.uk).

Our research seminars are being presented in a mix of hybrid, online and in-person formats. Where these sessions are hybrid or in person, they will be held in Lecture Theatre 5 of The Wave, Whitham Road. Please ensure you check the below programme before attending. 

If you are not a current staff / student member from the School and are interesting in attending any of these talks, please email the seminar series coordinator Maria Tomlinson: maria.tomlinson@sheffield.ac.uk. You can also book onto the talks


Wednesday 11 October, 2:00pm (hybrid)

Talk: â€œWhen your propaganda fails: the limits of Kremlin’s propagandaâ€

Dr. Ilya Yablokov, University of Sheffield

This talk is organised in conjunction with the Disinformation Research Cluster


Wednesday 18 October, 2:00pm (online)

Talk: â€œExploiting Doubt: Approaches to Identifying Disinformation through Rhetorical Devices in Natural Language Modelsâ€

Dr. Kiril Avramov, The University of Texas at Austin

This talk is organised in conjunction with the Disinformation Research Cluster


Wednesday 25 October, 2:00pm (hybrid)

Talk: Ban Drag Now! The Politics of Contemporary Drag 

Dr Jacob Mallinson Bird, University of Oxford


Wednesday 1 November, 2:00pm (hybrid)

Talk: â€œMenstruation in Czech Mediaâ€

Petra Poncarová, Charles University, Czechia


Wednesday 15 November, 2:00pm (hybrid)

This presentation will explore Journalism and Audience Studies

Prof. Claudia Mellado, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, Leverhulme Visiting Professor


Wednesday 22 November, 2:00pm (hybrid)

Talk:  â€œâ€˜You better werk': Avoiding the ‘shady edit’ in visual methods analysisâ€

Dr. Adam Carter, University of Sheffield


Wednesday 6 December, 2:00pm (hybrid)

Talk: â€˜It’s Not That Simple, We Do Not Know the Whole Truth’: Disinformation Discourse, Media Trust, and Political Attitudes in Russia in the Context of the Invasion of Ukraine

Dr. Maxim Alyukov, University of Manchester

This talk is organised in conjunction with the Disinformation Research Cluster


Wednesday 13 December, 2:00pm (online)

Talk: â€œNavigating the news: Russophone youth’s reception of Russia’s strategic narratives in Latviaâ€

Emma Rönngren, Uppsala University Sweden

Find out more about our previous seminar programmes

2021/22 Seminars 

2022/23 Seminars

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