Doctoral Students
Sara McConnell
April 19th, 2010, No Comments
Sara is researching her PhD in the Department of Journalism Studies at Sheffield University. Her research centres on the challenges to journalistic culture and professionalism from changing newsroom practice as newsrooms converge and journalism jobs change. As part of her fieldwork, she will be carrying out ethnographic and observational research in three UK national newsrooms to try and answer questions about how journalists perceive their role and purpose in a changing environment of digital communication.
Monica Alejandra Pena Corona
April 19th, 2010, No Comments
Monica’s PhD study in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield aimed to examine to what extent the close relationship that the Mexican media and the government traditionally held during most of the 20th century had changed as a product of recent political transformations. The research adopted the concept of political clientelism [...]
Lada Price
April 19th, 2010, No Comments
Lada is a part-time PhD student at the Department of Journalism in theUniversity of Sheffield. Her PhD explores the changes in the Bulgarian media that have taken and still are taking place (from 1989 until 2007) from the journalists perspective.
Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u
April 19th, 2010, No Comments
Jameel is a PhD student in the Department of Journalism Studies working on the comparative coverage of corruption scandals between northern and southern press in Nigeria. The research is exploring the factors that influence the reporting of corruption such as clientelism, regionalism,ownership, press freedom etc. The methodology used is qualitative interviews and qualitative content analysis. [...]
Stefanie Pukallus
April 19th, 2010, No Comments
Stefanie Pukallus is a PhD student at the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield critically examining the communication strategy of the European Commission in terms of its civil and political aims and effectiveness. The concept of EU citizenship and subsequently the EU citizen form the central thread of the study’s investigation of [...]
