!!Sabina Mihelj- Biography
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Sabina Mihelj (PhD 2004 University of Ljubljana) is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis in the Communication and Media Department, and a member of Loughborough Centre for Research in Communication and Culture. She is the author of several books and journal articles on media, politics, and culture, including Media Nations: Communicating Belonging and Exclusion in the Modern World (Palgrave, 2011), From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television, (Cambridge University Press, 2018, with S. Huxtable) and The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies (Palgrave, 2024, with V. Štětka).\\
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Over her time at Loughborough, Sabina served as Programme Director for both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in communication and media studies, as Director of Research for Communication and Media, and co-led Loughborough’s submission to the latest national Research Excellence Framework (2021) assessment. She is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College and sits on the editorial boards of several international media and cultural analysis journals. \\
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Sabina also has a track record of collaboration with non-academic stakeholders. Her recent work on the role of media in the rise of illiberalism and on pandemic communication and populism involved collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union, the European Federation of Journalists, and the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities. Her research on Cold War television and everyday life served as a basis for several museum exhibitions in South-eastern Europe, the UK and the US, and a TV documentary for BBC 4. This work provided the basis for one of Loughborough’s top-scoring REF Impact Case Studies, Challenging Cold War Stereotypes.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit smihelj}][{ALLOW upload smihelj}][{ALLOW comment All}]