Dr Ian Taylor
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
School: School of Liberal Arts
About
Dr Ian Taylor returned to working at Richmond in 2023, and currently teaches in the School of Liberal Arts. He had previously taught at Loughborough University, where he gained his PhD, and the University of Leicester, where he did his Masters degree. His has taught across a wide range of subdivisions within the field of media and communications. His main research interests are in news, journalism, current affairs media, and political communications. More specifically, his research revolves around the intersections between media, protest, and social movements. He has published widely in both scholarly and journalistic publications. He has also peer reviewed papers for a range of scholarly journals.
Qualifications
- PGCHE, (with distinction) Falmouth University, 2023
- PhD, Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK, 2010
- MA, Mass Communications, University of Leicester, UK, 2000
- BA (Hons), First Class, English Literature and Media Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 1999
Research outputs
Monographs:
- Taylor, I., (2017) Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement: The Battle for Hearts and Minds, Routledge.
Peer reviewed Journal articles:
- Taylor, I., (Forthcoming) ‘Professionalism and the coverage of protest: How an ethos of professionalism in journalism guided the ways in which journalists reported on an anti-Trump demonstration’, Journalism Practice. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2023.2200748
- Pindiga, H.I., and Taylor, I., (2018) ‘Framing Presidential Illness: The political significance of how the Nigerian press covered former President Yar’Adua’s final months’, Journal of African Media Studies, Vol.10, No.1 (pp.39-54). http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/jams/2018/00000010/00000001/art00003#expand/collapse
- Taylor, I., (2015) ‘Towards a better understanding of how radical non-official sources approach media relations: The case of the British anti-war movement’, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Vol.16. No.2, February 2015 (pp.181-197). http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464884913492461
- Taylor, I., (2014) ‘Local press reporting of opposition to the 2003 Iraq War in the UK and the case for reconceptualising notions of legitimacy and deviance’, The Journal of War and Culture Studies, Vol.7. No.1, February 2014 (pp.36-53). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1752628013Y.0000000006
- Taylor, I., (2008) ‘Surveying the Battlefield: Mapping the different arguments and positions of the Iraq War debate through Frame Analysis’, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol.5, No.3, September 2008 (pp.69-90). http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/pdfWPCC-Vol5-No3-Ian_Taylor.pdf
Review Essays:
- Taylor, I. (Forthcoming) Progressive Activism and the Media in the Twenty First Century, European Journal of Communication. Available online: Progressive activism and the media in the twenty-first century – Ian Taylor, 2024 (sagepub.com)
Book Reviews:
- Taylor, I., (2018) ‘Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU: Grievances, Identities and Agency‘, European Journal of Communication, Vol.33, No.4 (pp.450-452).
- Taylor, I., (2010) ‘Mass Media and Modern Warfare: Reporting on the Russian War on Terrorism‘, European Journal of Communication, Vol.25, No.4 (pp.430-431).
- Taylor, I., (2010) ‘American Idol After Iraq: Competing for Hearts and Minds in the Global Media Age‘, Media, War & Conflict, Vol.3, No.2 (pp.232-233).
- Taylor, I., (2010) ‘Stealth Conflicts: How the World’s Worst Violence is Ignored‘, European Journal of Communication, Vol.25, No.2 (pp.200-204).
Other publications:
- Taylor, I., (2017) Contributor to the Routledge pamphlet Author Directions: Navigating your success from PhD to Book, Routledge.
- Taylor, I., (2016) ‘Occupy London was a degree in politics for the streets’, New Statesman (online), 11 October 2016.
- Taylor, I., (2015) ‘Real people finally having their say? Press coverage of BBC Question Time leaders’ ‘debate’’, Loughborough University: General Election 2015 entry, 5 May 2015.
- Taylor, I., (2015) ‘This election is unpredictable, but we can predict that the media could damage Labour’s chances’, New Statesman (online), 17 February 2015.
- Taylor, I., (2013) ‘How hope was lost’, New Statesman, 15-21 February 2013 (pp.33-35).
- Taylor, I., (2006/2007) ‘Thinking global, acting local’, Peace News, December 2006-January 2007 (p.6).
- Taylor, I., (2005) ‘Mission accomplished? Iraq and the general election coverage’, Peace News, July-August 2005 (p.10).
Conference contributions
- Taylor, I., (2018) ‘Cross cultural sensitivities in HE teaching’, Paper presented at The 3rd Loughborough University Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2018: Educating for Success, Loughborough University, 27 June 2018.
- Taylor, I., and Stanyer, J., (2017) ‘The News and the construction of claims-maker credibility: Press attributions of expertise and ignorance in relation to the UK’s ‘fracking’ controversy’, Paper presented at The 2017 Conference on Communication and Environment in Leicester, University of Leicester, 29 June – 2 July 2017.
- Taylor, I., (2015) ‘We doth protest too much, methinks (perhaps): Does the concept of the ‘protest paradigm’ truly capture the predominant features of the reporting of protest?’, Paper presented at The First Annual International Journal of the Press/Politics Conference, University of Oxford, 16-18 September 2015.
- Taylor, I., (2014) ‘What are the key themes that emerge from the news reporting of protest? Reconceptualising the protest paradigm’, Paper presented at The Nineteenth International Conference on “Alternative Futures and Popular Protest”, Manchester Metropolitan University, 14-16 April 2014.
- Taylor, I., (2012) ‘Liberalism divided: The case of the Iraq War’, Paper presented at The Liberal Way of War Conference, University of Reading, 6-7 July 2012.
- Taylor, I., (2011) ‘Local Opposition to the Iraq War and the Local press in the UK’, Paper presented at The British Sociological Association Conference: ‘New Communications and Demonstrations’, University of Leicester, 13 July 2011. Invited speaker.
- Taylor, I., (2011) ‘The dynamics of selling war and countering opposition to it: The case of the Iraq War’, Paper presented at The Mediation of Security: An International Conference, De Montfort University. 18 May 2011.
- Taylor, I., (2011) ‘How Opposition to the Iraq War was reported on by the local press in the UK’, Paper presented at The Communicating War in the Media and Arts Conference, University of Liverpool, 28 January 2011.
- Taylor, I., (2010) ‘Rethinking the role of legitimacy in news and current affairs discourses’, Paper presented at The Joint International Conference on Political Communication, Loughborough University, 4-5 November 2010.
- Taylor, I., (2010) ‘Local News reporting and commentary on the Iraq crisis’, Paper presented at The Global Media and the War on Terror Conference, Westminster University, 13-14 September 2010.
- Taylor, I., (2010) ‘Tensions between unity and communication in contemporary anti-war activism’. Paper presented at The Fifteenth International Conference on “Alternative Futures and Popular Protest”, Manchester Metropolitan University, 29-31 March 2010.
- Taylor, I., (2007) ‘Frame Analysis: First Steps for analysing the media reporting of the Iraq War’. Paper presented at The CAMMRO Third International Conference: Media Coverage of the ‘War on Terror’, ExCel Conference Centre, London, 24 November 2007.
- Taylor, I., (2007) ‘Local Antiwar Activism and the Local Press in Britain’. Paper presented at The 27th Euricom Colloquium on Communications and Culture: Communication and Peace, Fiesa, Slovenia, 13-15 September 2007. Invited speaker.
- Taylor, I., (2007) ‘Local Antiwar Activism and the Local press in Britain’. Paper presented at The Fourth Annual MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network Conference, University of West of England, Bristol, 11-12 July 2007.
