Dr Liz Poole

Senior Lecturer in Media Studies

I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies in the Faculty of Arts, Media and Design. I am Award Leader for the MA in Media Management (VLE DL) and Pathway Leader for the Islam and the Media pathway on the MA Global Society and Media Communication (VLE DL). I have taught on a wide range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level in media, cultural and social theory. Currently this includes Investigating Audiences, New Media and Society, Pop Will Eat Itself and the MA modules Media: Contexts and Change, Islam and the Media, and Work Placement Module.

After completed my MA in British Cultural Studies at Warwick University (1993) I taught in FE for several years leading an undergraduate Social Science degree. This inspired me to read for a PhD in the Centre for Mass Communication Research at Leicester University. After successfully completing this in 1999 I joined Media Studies at Staffordshire University. Since then I have been active in developing courses and carrying out research (see profile below).

PhD Mass Communication (Leicester University) 1999

MA British Cultural Studies (Warwick University)1993

Bed Hons (Edge Hill College, Lancaster University) 1991

Higher Education Academy
MECCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association)

I have published and presented widely on the area of the representation of Muslims in Britain. This includes the reception and consumption of mainstream and new media both by Muslims and non-Muslims. I have experience of both quantitative and qualitative content analysis and audience research. Other research interests include ethnicity and the news, religion in the news, diasporas, new media and audiences. I am currently working on a 2 year AHRC/ESRC funded Religion and Society programme research project with Leeds University on ‘Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred’.

I am a member of the C-MAT research Centre in the Faculty.

Books

Poole, E (2002) Reporting Islam: Media Representations of British Muslims. I.B.Tauris
Poole, E and Richardson, J (2006) (eds) Muslims in the News Media. (I.B.Tauris)
Journal Articles
Poole, E (2002) ‘Networking Islam: The Democratising Potential of New technologies in Relation to Muslim communities’ in javnost/the public Vol 9, 1, 51-64
Poole, E and Holohan, S. (2002) ‘Race, Representation and Power: The Experience of British Muslims’ in Inter/sections, Vol 2: 3/4
Poole, E; Featherstone, M and Holohan, S, (2010) ‘Discourses of the War on Terror: Constructions of the Islamic Other in the Wake of 7/7’ in Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, Vol 6. No 2.


Book Chapters

Poole, E (1999) ‘Framing Islam: An analysis of newspaper coverage of Islam in the British press’ in K. Hafez (ed.) Islam and the West in the Mass Media. Fragmented Images in a Globalising World. Hampton Press.
Poole, E. (2001) ‘Interpreting Islam: British Muslims and the British Press’ in K.Ross and P.Playdon (eds.) Black Marks: Minority Ethnic Audiences and Media Ashgate.


Invited Lectures

‘Media Representations of British Muslims’ at Does a lack of diversity in the news industry matter? ESRC Seminar Series, Newcastle University, 20 March 2010

‘Multiculturalism, identity and freedom of speech: the case of Geert Wilders’ at Social Science Seminar Series, University of Loughborough, 3rd March 2010


Conference Talks

‘Three Phases of Representation 1994-2008: The Reporting of British Islam’ at ‘Representing Islam: Comparative Perspectives’ at Manchester University with The University of Surrey, 5/6th September 2008. (Keynote speaker)

‘Shifting Patterns of Representation: Examining Newspaper Coverage of Islam in the British Media’.at ‘International Conference on Islam and the Media’, University of Colorado, Boulder 7th – 10th January 2010

‘Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred’ at Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion ESRC/AHRC Religion and Society Programme Conference, 29/30th March (invited).