Gillian Youngs 

• Name : Gillian Youngs

• Job Title : University of Wales Alliance Research Chair and Prof. of Digital Economy

• Email Address : Gillian.youngs@newport.ac.uk

• Contact Number : 01633 432168

• Campus : City Centre

• Academic Faculty/School/Department :  Faculty of Arts and Business

• Research Centre or Group :  Institute of Advanced Broadcasting

• Biography : Gillian Youngs has spent her career in journalism and independent communications consultancy before becoming a full-time academic.  She has university teaching and research experience in the UK and Hong Kong most recently at the University of Leicester, UK.   She jointed the University of Wales, Newport  in October 2010 as Academic Director of the Institute of Advanced Broadcasting with a remit to link business and policy imperatives with academic research and practice.  A key focus for Gillian is building inclusive and dynamic digital economy through innovation and partnership.
  
  Academic & Professional Qualifications:  PhD (The Nottingham Trent University, UK) 1997. MA (1990) International Relations. University of Sussex, UK. Certificat D’Etudes Politiques (1987) Institut D’Etudes Politiques. Strasbourg. France. National Council for the Training of Journalists Proficiency Certificate (1978).

• Professional Bodies & Memberships : 
  • Member of British International Studies Association and US-based International Studies Association.
    
    
• Research expertise / research interests :  I am an international political economist and my research focuses on digital developments and globalization. My approach is interdisciplinary, theoretically driven, policy relevant and applied. I co-edited one of the first critical collections on globalization, now in its third edition, and was one of the first UK scholars to conduct research and develop postgraduate teaching and supervision on Internet/digital media developments. My focus has always included questions of inequality including those related to gender and I am in the process of completing a research monograph on ‘virtual globalization’. I have undertaken extensive collaborative work in all areas of my academic research.
  
  
• Grants Awarded: 
  • Welsh Government Grant (£0.5 million) ‘Welsh Microbroadcasting Centre Pilot Project’ to set up experimental microbroadcasting channel in Ebbw Vale regeneration area to serve Bleanau Gwent. Academic Lead working with project team (2010-2013).
  • ESRC Research Seminar Series (£17,900) ‘Digital Policy: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights’ 2011-13. PI with Co-Is Dr Tracy Simmons, University of Leicester, Prof. William Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, and Prof. Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna.
  • British Academy Small Grant (£7,500) ‘Discovering Digital Me: Forging Links Between Digital Identity, Digital Literacy and Digital Economy’. (June 2011-May 2013). PI. Co-I Panayiota Tatsou (Swansea University).
    ESRC Research Seminar Series (£15,318) ‘Ethics and the War on Terror: politics, multiculturalism and media.’ 2006 –2009 with Co-Is Simon Caney, University of Oxford and Heather Widdows, University of Birmingham).
    
    
• Research Supervision :  In the past three years I have successfully completed PhD supervisions in the following areas: digital Beijing; online journalism in Thailand; media strategy and blood donation in Thailand; the BBC, regional broadcasting and diversity.
  
  
• Research Degree Examiner appointments :  I currently hold postgraduate external examining roles at SOAS, University of London,  and Coventry University and am an undergraduate external at University of Westminster. In the last three years I have examined PhDs at the LSE, Royal Holloway and Coventry Universities and the University of Leeds.
  
  
• Publications (within the last 5 years): 
  • ‘Globalization, Information and Communication Technologies and Women’s Lives’. In R. Pande and T. van der Weide (eds). Globalization, Technology Diffusion and Gender Disparity. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. In press, forthcoming.
  • ‘Making the Pain Count: Embodied Politics in the New Age of Terror’. In A. Karatzogianni (ed.) Violence and War in Culture and the Media. London: Routledge. In press, forthcoming.
    Feminist International Relations in a High-Tech Age.’ In A. Bergman-Rosamund and M. Phythian (eds). War, Ethics and Justice: New Perspectives on a Post 9/11 World. London: Routledge, 2011.  pp.112-27.
  • ‘Digital Globalization and Democracy: The Territorial Walls Come Tumbling Down?’ Development 54(2), 2011.
  • ‘The “new home front” and the War on Terror: Ethical and Political Reframing of National and International Politics.’ International Affairs 86(4) 2010, 925-937.
  • ‘Globalization, Feminism and Information Society’. In M. Marchand and A. Sisson Runyan (eds). Gender and Global Restructuring 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2010.
  • ‘Cosmopolitanism and Feminism in the Age of the War on Terror: A Twenty-first Century Reading of Virginia Woolf‘s Three Guineas’.
    In M. Nowicka and M. Rovisco (eds) Cosmopolitanism in Practice. Farnham: Ashgate. 2009, 145-159.
  • ‘Globalization, Ethics and the ‘War on Terror’. Co-authored with Heather Widdows  Globalizations 6(1) 2009, 1-6.
    Globalizations 6(1)1. 2009. Special Issue: Globalization, Ethics and the ‘War on Terror’Co-edited with Heather Widdows and Eric Herring.
  • ‘Media and Mediation in the ‘War on Terror: Issues and Challenges.’ Critical Studies on Terrorism 2009 2(1), 1-8.
  • ‘Blogging and Globalization: the Blurring of the Public/Private Spheres.’ Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives 2009 61(2):127-138.
  • ‘From Practice to Theory: Feminist International Relations and ‘Gender Mainstreaming’. International Politics 45, 688-702. 200.
  • ‘Globalization, Communications and Political Action: Special Issue Introduction’ with Juliann Emmons Allison, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 4.1, 2008, 3-8.
    International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 4.1, 2008,
  • ‘Globalization, Communications and Political Action’. Co-edited with Juliann Emmons Allison.
    Globalization: Theory and Practice. 3rd ed. Co-edited with E.Kofman. London: Continuum. 2008.
  • ‘Concluding Comments: Making Our Own Paths Setting Our Own Agendas and Putting Them Into Action’. In F. Molfino and F. Zucco (eds). Women in Biotechnology – Creating Interfaces. Springer, 2008, 341-4
    
    
• Public engagement activities and esteem indicators :  At UK level I serve on the HEFCE Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 Sub-panel 36: Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management. I am a member of the Welsh Government Digital Wales Research Hub Strategy Group.