Dr James Stanyer

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James Stanyer  is a social scientist by training, gaining his PhD in Government from the London School of Economics in 1999. His research and teaching interests lie primarily in the areas of national and transnational politics and communication.

A key part of his research concerns the transformation of political communications advanced industrial democracies. His current book Modern Political Communication (forthcoming), examines some critical recent developments in the fast changing political communication systems of the US and the UK and the democratic consequences.

His work also focuses on the ‘personalisation’ of political communication. He recently co-edited a special edition of the journal Parliamentary Affairs with Dominic Wring which explored media coverage of politicians’ private lives in various countries. His work is also concerned with the way new technologies are facilitating political engagement at national and global levels.

He has published research on political campaigning and the Internet and is currently conducting research on the blogging and election communication and on the Internet and the activities of political exiles. He has also published widely on the formation of political news agendas in democratic societies, producing a book entitled, The Creation of Political News (2001) and various refereed journal articles.

James has taught at various universities. In 1997 he was appointed to a temporary lectureship in Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University. He has also held visiting lectureships in the Department of Politics, Queen Mary, University of London, and at City University, London. In 1999 after completing his ESRC funded PhD, he gained a lectureship the Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, where he remained until he started at Loughborough in September 2005.

James is a fully accredited registered member of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Political Studies Association and its Media and Politics Specialist Group, and a member of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association.

Outside academia, James is a keen(ish) runner and recently finished his first half-marathon, his goal is to complete more and may be in the future do the full thing.