Nick Couldry#
Membership Number: | 4346 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2016 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/WhosWho/AcademicStaff/Nick-Couldry.aspx |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
- 2014 - present Head of Department, Dept of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- 2013 - present Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, Dept of Media and Communications, LSE
- 2010 - 2011 and 2011 - 2013, Joint Head of Department, Dept of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College
- 2007 - 2013 Founder and director, Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths College
- 2006 - 2013 Professor of Media and Communications, Dept of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College
- 2005 - 2006 Reader in Media, Communications, and Culture, LSE
- 2003 - 2005 Senior lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture, LSE
- 2001 - 2003 Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture, LSE
- 1998 - 2000 Lecturer in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College
- 1995 - 1998 Visiting tutor, Dept of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College
- 1989 - 1990, 1987 - 1999, 1991 - 2003, Solicitor in e.g. Commonwealth Development Corporation and Company and Banking Departments, Clifford Chance
- Visiting positions at University of Pennsylvania, University of Stockholm, RMIT Melbourne, Roskilde University, Södertorn University, Stockholm University (Bonnier professor), University of Technology Sydney, and University of Toulouse.
Fields of Scholarship
- Symbolic power of media institutions
- Media rituals
- Media as practice
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Doctor Honoris Causae, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2013 Book Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (2012) selected as one of Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles of the year