Ekmel Gecer

Department of Social Sciences
Media and Communication Studies
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
England

Telephone:

Fax:+44 (0)1509 222930

Email: e.gecer@lboro.ac.uk

Nationality: Turkish

Start Date: Oct 2009

Status: Full-time.

 

Academic Biography:

BA (Hons) Divinity, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

MA Psychology Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

MA Media and Communication, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

 

Current Research:

The title of my PhD study is,
‘Media and Democracy in Turkey: The Case of Kurdish Issue’

Research Interests:

Political communication
Journalism
News production
Text and media production
Sociology of news
Popular Culture
Democracy
Theology
Psychology

Funding Body:

Supervisors: Dr Sabina Mihelj and Professor David Deacon

Involvement in Department:

Cultural and Media Analysis Group (CaMARG)

Member of the interdepartmental PhD Club.

Other:

A bilingual academic, freelance journalist and columnist, who is currently writing for print and online publications in the UK and Turkey.