We are delighted to welcome Philip Schlesinger, Professor in Cultural Theory at the University of Glasgow to give the third Jeremy Tunstall Lecture in memory of Professor Jeremy Tunstall, one of the founding fathers of British sociology, media and journalism studies and Professor at City St George's, University of London.
Jeremy Tunstall
Jeremy was highly respected across the University for his interdisciplinary literature that spanned many areas and eras in public culture.
His publications include the seminal Journalists at Work (1971) and latterly Media Occupations and Professions (2001), The Media Were American: Mass Media in Decline (2007), and BBC and Television Genres in Jeopardy (2015).
Professors including Petros Iosifidis and Jean Chalaby build on Jeremy’s work with a focus on core elements of global media, communications, digital communications and policy.
Speaker bio
This year's speaker is Philip Schlesinger FRSE, FAcSS, FRSA. Philip is Professor in Cultural Theory at the University of Glasgow. His lecture will reflect on research on digital regulation and geopolitics undertaken as a Professorial Fellow at the CREATe Centre for the Regulation of the Creative Economy, where his work is funded by an AHRC award.
Jeremy Tunstall commissioned Philip’s first book, Putting ‘Reality’ Together, an ethnographic study of BBC news, which has been a reference point for much subsequent research.
Philip has also authored the influential Media, State and Nation, and co-authored seven monographs that address topics such as media and political violence, crime reporting, women and mediated violence, political communications, and cultural, film and media policies.
His academic writing has been translated into twelve languages (including Chinese, French and Spanish) and has a global readership.
Philip has been a visiting professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Salamanca, Sciences Po Toulouse, CELSA in the University of Paris-Sorbonne, LUISS University in Rome, the University of Oslo, and the LSE.
His visiting fellowships include residencies at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, the European University Institute, Florence, and most recently, the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna.
He chaired Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Scotland from 2009-14 and was a Member of Ofcom’s Content Board from 2014-2018.
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