Dr Dominic Hinde
- Lecturer in Sociology (Media and Communications) (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
Biography
Dominic Hinde is a Lecturer in Sociology attached to the Glasgow Media Group and teaches on the MSc Media, Communications and International Journalism.
He studied for his PhD at the University of Edinburgh and Uppsala University, Sweden and has many years of experience as an international journalists for newspapers, magazines and online. In his career he has reported from across the world but specialises in Scandinavian and Northern Europe alongside his academic work.
He was previously a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.
Research interests
Dominic's research is centred on the future of media in a time of institutional change and the communication of the future and how it is imagined with regard to climate change in particular. He also writes about and comments upon the UK and Scottish media.
- Climate change and environmental communication
- Media and modernity
- Genre studies and futurebuilding
- Nordic and European media
- Media work
Grants
Principal Investigator: Royal Society of Edinburgh network development grant/Glasgow climate COP
Practical work with global south scholars, including film production, for knowledge building at the Glasgow climate COP (£7000) May 2021
Principal Investigator: Carson Fellowship grant/Journalism in the Anthropocene
Theoretical and work based approaches to dealing with the Anthropocene in journalism (£10,000) March 2017
Principal Investigator: IASH postdoctoral fellowship/Living in Liquid Worlds
Postdoctoral project and workshops on sociological liquidity, media and complexity (£16,000) August 2017
Supervision
- Xu, Zixin
Social Media in Community-Based Crisis Management in China: A Case Study
I am interested in supervising projects in any of the following areas:
- Climate change and environmental communications
- Media and modernity
- Genre studies and futurebuilding
- Nordic and European Media
- Media Work
I am currently supervising doctoral projects in:
- The media portrayal of the UK miners strike from an oral history perspective
- Digitaisation and rationalisation at the Glasgow Herald