After brief stints as a journalist in Athens in 1995-6 and teaching International Relations in Nottingham as a PhD student between 2001-5, my first post was in 2006 in Paris at the American University (AUP) as an Assistant Professor in Global Communications. Love for the UK research environment brought me back to Hull in 2007 as a Lecturer in Media, Culture and Society in Humanities. In 2011, I became a Senior Lecturer, and in 2013, I transferred to Social Sciences, restructured and directed media programmes in the school.
In July 2014, I took a post as a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester.
Since 2000, I have focused on the intersections between new media theory, resistance networks and global politics, for the study of cyberconflict and the use of digital technologies by social movements, protest, and insurgency groups. My research revolves around different aspects of cyberconflict theory, which I developed and applied to non-state actors and their use of Information Communication Technologies. I am passionate about researching what is a period of intense encounters of the cyber with the global political arena: the proliferation of sociopolitical activist networks, as well as ethnoreligious, insurgent and terrorist networks; social-media enabled political protests and mobilizations leading to social or political change; increased resistance to surveillance and censorship of global communications, including leaks from government employees and new media organizations, uncovering significant tensions in the use of ICTs both by states and corporations.
