Dr Billur Ozgul
Lecturer in Political Communications
Marie Johoda 154a
- Email: billur.ozgul@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267943
- Social Science and Communications
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
I joined the School of Social and Political Sciences as a Lecturer in Political Communications in August 2019. Prior to that, I was a Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. My research interests lie in the fields of media and politics with a particular focus on digital media, political participation and the Middle East. Having completed my PhD in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, I undertook research in a broad range of fields, such as the role of information communication technologies (ICTs) in periods of protest, comparative political analysis of digitally mediated movements, and social, political and cultural impact of ICTs. My first monograph, Leading protests in the digital age: Youth activism in Egypt and Syria, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.
Since 2012, I have had an established record of working as a researcher on multi-disciplinary research projects with Royal Holloway, Open University and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. I have also experience working with industry, carried out social media research with the BBC World Service and British Council exploring how social media users around the world responded to their programmes (For further information please see: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/Project?id=bd82a3fb-e8a0-41b1-b959-2d57067f44bc&language=en-GB). Presently, I work on the British Academy project on vaccine-hesitant minority communities and investigate social, cultural, and political factors underlying vaccine hesitant beliefs and ideas amongst minoritised communities in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (US). For further information please see: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/vaccine-voices/home
Qualifications
PhD in Political Communications (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Responsibility
Convenor of the MSc in Political Communication
Dissertation Co-ordinator for Journalism
Newest selected publications
Aslan Ozgul, B., Nieto McAvoy, E., Gillespie, M. and O’Loughlin, B. (2022) 'Shakespeare Lives on Twitter: cultural diplomacy in the digital age'. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 28 (2). pp. 204 - 220. ISSN: 1028-6632
Lilleker, DG. and Aslan Ozgul, B. (2021) 'The Psychology of Democracy'. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISSN 10: 1-003-02129-8 ISSN 13: 978-0-367-89816-8
Ozgul, BA. and Veneti, A. (2021) 'The Different Organizational Structures of Alternative Media: Through the Perspective of Alternative Media Journalists in Turkey and Greece'. Digital Journalism, 0 ((in press)). pp. 1302 - 1321. ISSN: 2167-0811 Open Access Link
Ozgul, BA. (2019) 'Leading Protests in the Digital Age: Youth Activism in Egypt and Syria'. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 10: 3030254496 ISSN 13: 978-3-030-25449-0 Open Access Link
O'Loughlin, B., Vaccari, C., Ozgul, BA. and Dennis, J. (2017) 'Twitter and Global Political Crises: Cycles of Insecurity in #PrayforParis and #PrayforSyria'. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 10 (2-3). pp. 175 - 203. ISSN: 1873-9857 Open Access Link