Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism

Prior to joining City in 1996, Sarah Gale worked as a solicitor in both London and Brussels.

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Professor Chris Greer has been at City, University of London since 2005, having worked at Northumbria University since 2002. He completed his PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queen's University Belfast in 2001.

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Professor Tumber is Director of Research for City's Graduate School of Journalism, and Co-director of the Centre for Law, Justice & Journalism.

Previously he was Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences in 2011-2012; Dean of the School of Arts in 2008-2009; Dean of the School of Social Sciences from 1999-2004; and Head of Sociology from 1996-1999.

Professor Brock became Professor and Head of Journalism at City in September 2009. He began his reporting career at the Yorkshire Evening Press and The Observer, joining The Times in 1981. After starting at The Times as a feature writer, he became a features editor and, in 1984, op-ed page editor.

Professor Chris Greer joined City, University of London in 2005, having worked at Northumbria University since 2002. He completed his PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queen's University Belfast in 2001.

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Professor Iosifidis obtained his first degree in Sociology from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens. He then completed his MA in Communication Policy Studies and PhD at City, University of London and University of Westminster respectively. He previously taught at the University of North London.

Professor Tumber is Director of Research for City's Graduate School of Journalism, and Co-director of the Centre for Law, Justice & Journalism. Previously he was Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences in 2011-2012; Dean of the School of Arts in 2008-2009; Dean of the School of Social Sciences from 1999-2004; and Head of the Department of Sociology from 1996-1999.

Professor Bromley has taught at universities in the UK, USA and Australia. He has published seven books and more than 50 chapters and articles. Prior to working at City, University of London he was head of the School of Journalism and Communication at The University of Queensland, Australia.

Heather Brooke worked as a political and crime reporter in the US before moving to Britain where she is now a freelance journalist and Freedom of Information campaigner.

Richard Collins has held university posts, latterly as Professor, in Australia (RMIT) and the UK (Polytechnic of Central London, Goldsmiths' College, London Guildhall University, London School of Economics and the Open University) and fellowships/professorial appointments in Australia (CIRCIT and Swinburne University), Canada (Canadian Commonwealth Fellow, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario), South Africa (University of Natal, University of the Witwatersrand) and the USA (Temple University, University of Southern California). He was Head of Education and Deputy Director at the British Film Institute.

Professor Leigh is one of Britain's leading investigative journalists, and winner of the 2007 Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism. David is Assistant Editor at The Guardian, with special responsibility for investigations.

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Melanie McFadyean has a BA and an MA in English from Leeds University. After university she taught art in secondary school and then English at Hackney FE College. She then went into journalism co-starting a magazine.

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Stewart Purvis became City, University of London's first Professor of Television Journalism in 2003. He is now a non-executive director of Channel Four, a Vice-President of the Royal Television Society and a trustee of SSVC (producers of British Forces Broadcasting).

Rosie Waterhouse, Director of City's Investigative Journalism MA, is a freelance journalist with extensive experience as an investigative reporter, having worked for five national newspapers and as a TV reporter.

Dr. Carmen Draghici is a Senior Lecturer in Law, and the Deputy Director and Admissions Tutor of City Law School's LLB programme.

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Jesse Elvin graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1994 with a BA in Law and Anthropology.

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Peter joined The City Law School (formerly known as the Inns of Court School of Law) in 1986, having previously practised predominantly in criminal work.

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Ian Loveland is Professor of Public Law at the City Law School where he joined in 1999, having previously held academic posts at Oxford, QMW and Brunel universities. He was formerly the Director of the Law School's Graduate LLB programme.

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Daniel Wilsher is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The City Law School. Before coming to City, Daniel was a solicitor and partner in a London law firm. As well as teaching at City, he is a part-time Immigration Judge.

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Professor Gill studied Sociology and Psychology at Exeter University, and completed her PhD in Social Psychology at the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG), Loughborough University in 1991. With an interdisciplinary background, she has worked across a number of disciplines including Sociology, Gender Studies and Media and Communications. Her career has included posts at Goldsmiths and King's College London, and she worked for ten years in the LSE's interdisciplinary Gender Institute. She joined City, University of London in October 2013.

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Dr Katrin Hohl joined City, University of London in 2012, having previously worked as a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. Dr Hohl completed her PhD at the London School of Economics in 2011 on the role of mass media and police communication in shaping public attitudes towards the police. She has collaborated with the London Metropolitan Police on several research projects on the topics of public confidence in policing, police communication and neighbourhood policing.

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Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. His most recent books are Criminological Perspectives (with John Muncie, Sage, 3rd edition, 2013), The Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory (with Tim Newburn, paperback, Sage, 2013) and The Sage Dictionary of Criminology (with John Muncie, Sage, 3rd edition, 2012).

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Dr Carrie-Anne Myers joined City in 2006 as a lecturer in Sociology and Criminology. After completing, at the London School of Economics, an Economic and Social Research (ESRC)-funded PhD on School Violence and Bullying, she spent two years at the University of Surrey as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the UK Observatory for the Promotion of Non-Violence.

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Professor Pratt is an internationally acclaimed expert on the topic of the cultural industries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has held academic appointments at University College London (Bartlett School of Planning) and LSE (Geography, and Urban Research Centre), King's College, London (Culture, Media and Creative Industries). He joined City as Professor of Cultural Economy in 2013.

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Steven Barnett is Professor of Communications and a prominent writer and broadcaster who has been involved in policy analysis at the highest levels, both nationally and internationally, for the last 25 years. He has advised government ministers in the UK, has given evidence or served as an adviser on several parliamentary committees, has been called to give evidence to the European Parliament, and has been invited to speak at numerous national and international conferences.

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Dr Benedetta Brevini is a Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Fellow of Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City, University of London. Previous academic appointments include Lectureships at City, University of London and Brunel University in London. Dr Brevini has been working as a journalist in Milan, New York and London for CNBC and RAI. She writes on The Guardian's Comment is Free and is contributing to a number of print and web publications including Index of Censorship, Red Pepper Magazine. A media reformer, she is a member of the Coordinating committee for Media Reform in London that coordinates the work of advocacy groups campaigning to protect the public interest in light of the Leveson Inquiry and Communications Review.

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Nina Burri studied law at the Universities of Zurich and Bilbao. After graduating in 2008 she interned with Swiss National Television in Zurich and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Buenos Aires under the supervision of Ambassador Carla del Ponte. From 2009 to 2012 she has been working as a research associate for Professor Daniel Thürer and Professor Oliver Diggelmann at the Institute of Public International Law of the University of Zurich.

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David's PhD thesis focuses on the attempts of change observable within the police forces in Switzerland, in particular via the training of new recruits which has undergone profound modifications during the last decade. He considers these processes of change from the perspective of police-public relations, in particular police perceptions and understandings of youth crime and young offenders.

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Dr Judith Townend is a former PhD student and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism. Her doctoral research examined the relationship between defamation and privacy law and journalistic practice in England and Wales. She is currently director of the Centre for Law and Information Policy, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

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Lorna Woods is Director of the LLM in Internet Law. Formerly a practising solicitor in an ICT practice in the City of London, she has extensive experience in the field of media policy and communications regulation, and she has published widely in this area (see list of publications).

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Alison's key research areas are law, art and public culture; cinema and crime; and image studies. She is currently carrying out an ARC Discovery Project examining the reception of street art in the cultural field which is due for completion in 2014. It focuses on its transformative potential in urban space; its reception and interpretation in the domain of fine arts; and its impact upon the socio-legal regulation of public spaces.

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Dr. Bolette B. Blaagaard holds a PhD degree in gender and ethnicity studies from Utrecht University, Netherlands, and a MA in journalism from University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

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William Horsley is an experienced journalist who has written and reported extensively on issues of governmental power and the role of the media during more than 30 years of international reporting and analysis.

Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. His most recent books are Criminological Perspectives (with John Muncie, Sage, 3rd edition, 2013), The Sage Handbook of Criminological Theory (with Tim Newburn, paperback, Sage, 2013) and The Sage Dictionary of Criminology (with John Muncie, Sage, 3rd edition, 2012).

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Gavin is primarily interested in the origins and visions of sociology as an 'emancipatory' epistemological enterprise, both the possibilities and limitations of sociological knowledge/vernacular and the 'sociological project' (for want of a better term), particularly as it is applied to embodied consciousness and emotionality, nature, law and polity.

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Eylem Yanardagoglu received her PhD at the Department of Sociology at City, University of London where she studied the relationship between citizenship, minorities and minority media in Turkey.

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Research Papers by Dr Dimitrios Xenos.

From our own correspondents? How user-generated content is altering the power dynamics in reporting humanitarian crises.

Open Justice and Investigations into Deaths at the Hands of the State

An examination of the legal restrictions on press freedom in England: To what extent is freedom of speech among journalists protected or restricted by the English law including defamation and privacy?

Reforming police-public relations: new perceptions and understandings of youth crime?

Drawing back the curtain: a post-Leveson examination of celebrity, privacy and press intrusion.

Young people and their social constructions of ‘risk’ and ‘responsibility’ in relation to cyber-misuse

When a Match Bites Back: Harassment on Online Dating Services

Media self-censorship practices: the role of self-censorship in shaping the behaviour of the press.