Dr Piers Robinson - personal details

Role: Senior Lecturer

Email: 7HjG8?GLrHT8LTPMhT/Xj8mjG?h/?*BxQFHK8jG$E1-D0M%pf~*^hSyB?`b/wRo'Wt{_}A6IvnNZz!7|@q#X3iYserlJ5L+Cm9=g4udaT2k.VUcPO

Tel: 0161 275-1281

Location: Arthur Lewis Building-4.007
School of Social Sciences
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

Websites

• School of Social Sciences

Piers Robinson has an international reputation for his work on the relationship between communications, media and world politics: He has been cited in publications such as 'The Responsibility to Protect', published by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), as well as having received many invitations to lecture, for example at the NATO Defence College in Rome.

In the last 5 years he has focused on media and war, leading a major ESRC project exploring media coverage of the 2003 Iraq invasion. This project has led to a series of publications culminating in the book Pockets of Resistance: British news media theory and the 2003 invasion of Iraq (co-authored with Peter Goddard, Katy Parry, Craig Murray and Philip M. Taylor) (Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York, 2010). An invited chapter on news media and war is to be published in the forthcoming Sage Handbook of Political Communication (2011) (eds. Holli Semetko and Maggie Scammell).

His early work focused on the CNN effect and the relationship between news media, foreign policy and humanitarian intervention and his book The CNN Effect: the myth of news, foreign policy and intervention (Routledge, 2002) is the most widely cited work on this topic. He is currently editing a special issue of the journal Media, War and Conflict on the CNN effect, for publication in 2011.

He is an editor of the Journal Critical Studies on Terrorism (Routledge), currently co-convenor of the BISA working group Critical Studies on Terrorism, and a member of the International Communication Association, British International Studies Association and the Political Studies Association.

Degrees:

• PhD (Bristol 2000),
• MSc (Bristol 1997),