Dr Bissie Anderson

• PhD Journalism, University of Stirling, 2023
• MRes Media Research, University of Stirling, 2018
• MLitt Journalism, University of Strathclyde, 2012
• BA (Hons) English, 2008

I joined the University of Birmingham in September 2024. Prior to that, I worked as a Lecturer in Journalism at Robert Gordon University and as sessional lecturer and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Stirling and Bangor University for five years, where I taught and coordinated modules across the Media and Journalism curriculum. I am an Associate Fellow of Advance HE.

I hold a PhD in Journalism and an MRes (with Distinction) in Media Research, funded by an ESRC 1+3 interdisciplinary studentship, an MLitt (with Distinction) in Journalism, and a BA (Hons) in English. I am the recipient of the AEJMC 2024 Participatory Journalism Dissertation Award and the ICA Outstanding Dissertation in Journalism Studies Honourable Mention. 

I have held leadership positions in service to postgraduate and early career researchers in the field of media and communications, as ECREA Journalism Studies Section Young Scholars Representative and Editor-in-chief of Networking Knowledge, Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. 

I am interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:

• Knowledge production in digital journalism (design, community engagement, audience reception, media literacy)
• Encoding/decoding, rhetoric and meaning making in the 21^st century media ecosystem
• “Pioneer journalism”, journalistic innovation, novel approaches to storytelling (UX design, AI, new formats)
• Global-comparative media studies, journalism and media in non-Western contexts
• Press freedom, journalism and democracy
• Journalism and trust, information integrity, dis/mis-information

I specialise in global comparative research on the epistemologies of digital journalism, peripheral media actors, alternative and community media, and innovative approaches to media practice.