Professor Jane Suiter is the Director of DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo). She is a social scientist whose research interests focus on the public sphere. Her present research is focused on the social, political and communicative aspects of citizen participation, empowerment and direct and participative democracy. She has a particular interest in the potential of deliberation and how worked on and researcher a number of real world deliberative assemblies including We the Cit...
Dr Eileen Culloty is Deputy Director at the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo) and an Assistant Professor in the DCU School of Communications. She coordinates the Ireland EDMO Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory, which aims to advance research on disinformation, support fact-checking and media literacy, and assess the implementation of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation. Eileen’s book, co-authored with Jane Suiter, Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital ...
Dr Kirsty Park is the Policy Lead at EDMO Ireland and a postdoctoral researcher at DCU’s Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society. Her work focuses on disinformation, media policy, and internet regulation, specialising in the Digital Services Act and the Code of Practice on Disinformation, She recently led a European Parliament study assessing the risks of gendered harms for women and girls on social media and she led the data analysis on the Reuters Digital News Report Ireland (BAI)...
Dr Dannica Fleuss is a postdoctoral researcher at Dublin University’s Centre for Future Media, Democracy & Society and a Research Associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (University of Canberra, Australia). She is also a co-convenor of the British Political Studies Association’s Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group, an Associate Editor of the academic journal Democratic Theory and a member of the Junior Scientific Advisory...
Dr John O’Sullivan has a professional background in editing and production in newspapers and magazines, and in covering computing and communication technology since the advent of the internet. Published across a range of leading scholarly journals, his principal research areas have concerned the interplay between so-called mainstream journalism values and practices and the internet, and evolving forms of news. He has been engaged over significant periods in collaborative European-wide researc...
Paul McNamara lectures in journalism at Dublin City University’s School of Communications, where he is chairperson of its MA in Journalism programme. He has delivered numerous journalism modules at graduate and undergraduate level. He currently teaches modules on news reporting and editing, journalism portfolio, newsdays, and supervises graduate thesis and major project production seminars. He also co-ordinates student work placement schemes and arranges newsroom bootcamps with senior nation...
Professor Colleen Murrell researches international newsgathering, transnational broadcasting and digital media. She is currently writing a book on BBC newsgathering. She is also the research lead for the annual Reuters Digital News Report Ireland (2021-6), part of a global research study into the habits of digital news consumers. The other FuJo researchers on the project are Dr Dave Robbins, Dr Dawn Wheatley and Dr Claire English. She teaches broadcast journalism at DCU and is an external examin...
Dr Dawn Wheatley is an assistant professor in the School of Communications whose teaching and research focuses on journalism, political communication, and social media. She received her PhD in 2018 for her research into online news production and coverage of the Irish healthcare sector, and remains particularly interested in sources, voices and diversity in the news. She is also involved in various international projects, co-leading the Irish contribution to the Worlds of Journalism study which ...
Dr Dave Robbins is director of the DCU Centre for Climate and Society, and an associate professor of journalism in the DCU's School of Communications. He worked for 25 years as a journalist in national print and broadcast media, and also worked as a special advisor to the Minister for the Environment. Dave's research examines media representations of climate change, and he has worked with several media organisations to strengthen and deepen their climate coverage....
Dr Ricardo Castellini da Silva is a Media Literacy educator and a Postdoctoral Researcher with DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo). He is also the Media Literacy Coordinator for the Irish hub of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO). Ricardo has extensive experience designing and delivering media literacy learning experiences for all age groups. He has partnered with government organizations, NGO’s, schools and libraries to promote media literacy in Ireland an...
Dr Roderick Flynn is a researcher and lecturer in the DCU School of Communications. His research interests are diverse and span the social history of communication, political economy of the media, telecommunication and broadcasting policy, and the history of media technology. In recent years a major focus of his research has been on questions of media ownership and media concentration. Roddy was part of a vast international study, the results of which are due to be published later this year in ...
Prof Pat Brereton is the Head of DCU School of Communications. His research interests include film, new media and ecology. Prof Brereton has written several books on these topics including ‘Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema’ and ‘Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema’, co-authored with colleague Dr Roddy Flynn. Prof Brereton is involved in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) research project on Climate Change Reporting in Ireland. He says: “I see Ireland ...
Debbie Ging is Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications at Dublin City University, Ireland. She teaches and researches on gender, sexuality and digital media, with a focus on digital hate, online anti-feminist men’s rights politics, the incel subculture and radicalisation of boys and men into male supremacist ideologies. Debbie’s research also addresses youth experiences of gender-based and sexual abuse online and educational interventions to tackle this issue. S...
Dr Tanya (Tetyana) Lokot is an Associate Professor in Digital Media and Society at the School of Communications. A native of Ukraine, she researches threats to digital rights, networked authoritarianism, digital resistance, internet freedom and internet governance in Eastern Europe. She is the author of Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), an in-depth study of protest and digital media in Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity. She is curre...
Alessio Cornia is an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University and a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. His research interest is comparative research on political communication and journalism, focusing on the relationship between media and politics, news industry developments, digital news, social media platforms, media coverage of corruption, and EU journalism. He is the DCU research team lead for the EU-funded research project ...
Professor Kevin Rafter is Associate Professor of Political Communication at DCU, where his primary research interest is in the area of media and politics. He also holds the position of Associate Dean for Research and is Chairperson of the MA Political Communication programme. Prior to 2008 he worked as a journalist including as a political reporter for the Irish Times, political correspondent for the Sunday Times and political editor at the Sunday Tribune. He worked for many years with RTÉ...
Saumava Mitra is an Assistant Professor at the School of Communications of Dublin City University. Mitra researches on various issues of media’s – particularly visual media’s – relationship with violent and social conflicts. He is interested in both the questions of how socio-economic and political inequities are inscribed into the photographic images of conflicts as well as the effects of these inequities on the lives and livelihoods of those who produce these images. His current rese...
Maura Conway is Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies in the School of Law and Government and Coordinator of VOX-Pol (voxpol.eu). She also holds a visiting Professorship in Cyber Threats in CYTREC at Swansea University, UK. Prof. Conway’s principal research interests are in the area of terrorism and the Internet, including the functioning and effectiveness of violent extremist online content, online radicalisation, and so-called ‘cyberterrorism.’ She is t...
Prof Noel O’Connor is an Associate Professor in the School of Electronic Engineering at DCU and a Funded Investigator (PI) in INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics, DCU. To date, Noel has published over 180 peer-reviewed publications, made 11 standards submissions, filed 6 patents and spun off a campus company, Aliope Ltd (with Prof. Alan Smeaton). He was awarded the DCU President’s Research Award for Science and Engineering in 2010. Also in 2010, he was awarded Enterprise Ireland’s Nationa...
Muhammad Sayyam Afzal is a PhD research scientist at the School of Communications, Dublin City University (DCU). He is a freelance journalist focusing on climate change and political communication. He has worked on many social and digital media campaigns over the past six years. Recently, he was selected as Ireland’s Climate Ambassador for 2023. In 2022, he was also chosen among 100 emerging journalists through the British Council’s future News worldwide program....
Priyanka Borpujari is an independent journalist, having reported on issues of human rights and justice from across Japan, Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Indonesia, El Salvador, and India. Her work has appeared in the British Medical Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, National Geographic, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, TRT World, and several others. She has won numerous fellowships; she was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Nazareth College in Roches...
Barbara Gormley MPRII, is an Irish Research Council Scholar and lecturer in the Schools of Psychology and Communication at Dublin City University (DCU). Barbara’s current area of research and expertise is in Health/Science Communications, specifically, high-risk and crises that are associated with public health emergencies, namely the H1N1, Swine Flu and SARS – CoV- 2/ COVID-19 pandemics. During COVID-19, Barbara was seconded to the Communications and Behavioural Committee that advised NPHET...
Bert Gordijn is a full professor of ethics who currently serves as the Director of Dublin City University's Institute of Ethics in Ireland. He started his academic journey studying Philosophy and History, attending universities in Utrecht, Strasbourg, and Freiburg in Breisgau. In 1995, he earned his doctorate in Philosophy from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. He added to his academic credentials with another Ph.D. in Bioethics from Radboud University Nijmegen in 2003. Over the years, Bert...
Dónal Mulligan is a lecturer and researcher at Dublin City University's School of Communications, where he works on interdisciplinary digital research topics, and teaches on a range of modules related to digital media analysis, design and production. In 2017, he won the President's Teaching Award for Distinctive Approaches to Assessment & Feedback and in 2023 the Overall Award for Excellence in Teaching. His doctoral research focussed on the study of Irish political discourse on Twitter, a...
Dr Ian Richardson is a data scientist, independent researcher and founder of Polimorph Insights; a data consultancy practice. He completed his PhD in population and quantitative genomics in 2015, with a focus on predicting animal resistance to infectious disease. Since completing his PhD he has worked in industry gaining a broad knowledge of practical data science applications. His interests include supply chain integrity and security, genomics, predictive analytics, political science, geospatia...
Irene is a PhD researcher at Dublin City University’s School of Communications, exploring the role of human-centred design for audience engagement in legacy newspapers and the implications for journalism. She has worked as a journalist for over a decade in Greece, covering international news with a focus on European and US politics and elections, the economy, the refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, and society. Her articles have appeared both in print and online, and she has interviewed numerou...
Nhung is a PhD student at the DCU School of Communications and the Institute for Future Media and Journalism (FuJo), where she is investigating social media for public participation in an authoritarian context. Her research interests lie in feminist activism, connective action, digital media and the Global South. Nhung holds a BA and a MA in French linguistics (Vietnam National University) and a MA in Public Relations (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium), fully funded by the Belgian Governm...
Sanjay is a PhD student at Dublin City University’s School of Communications and Institute for Future Media and Journalism (FuJo), where he is working to apply Computational argumentation theory in support of the deliberations on online deliberation platforms. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Science (Pakistan). He has a master’s degree in Data Science from the Dublin Business School (Ireland). He has more than one ...
Rabhya Mehrotra is a Mitchell Scholar, one of twelve Americans selected to study in Ireland by the US-Ireland Alliance. At DCU, she is pursuing a Masters' in Political Communication. She graduated from Yale University in December 2022 with degrees in computer science and political science. Using her hybrid academic background, she hopes to research how democracy reform can address democratic backsliding and empower citizens. At Yale, she served as the co-director of the Yale Politics Initiative ...