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Sarah Oates

Professor of Political Communication, Politics, Adam Smith Building, University of

Glasgow Glasgow G12 8RT UK, Email: *****.*****@*******.**.**

S Research and teach media and democratization; internet and political change; terrorism

coverage; research methods; elections and political communication including in Russia, the

United Kingdom, and the United States. In-depth use of audience and opinion research to

compare democratic/non-democratic states.

S Extensive publications in field of comparative media and politics.

S Principal/co-principal on grants worth more than $1 million.

S Experienced in qualitative and quantitative research design, methods, and analysis

(including public opinion surveys, focus-group research, content analysis, online content

analysis).

S Policy/academic interchange experience includes seven years with New Security

Challenges program of the British Research Councils. Routinely discuss issues of

communication and security with government, including Home Office and Cabinet Office.

Founder and coordinator of academic network with Google UK. International consultancy

experience includes work with British Foreign Office, European Commission, and Soros

Foundation.

S Research Assistant (1996-1998),

Lecturer/Assistant Professor (1998-2005), Senior

Lecturer/Associate Professor (2005-2008) in Politics at the University of Glasgow.

Founder, MSc in Political Communication. Acting Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty

of Law, Business and Social Sciences, 2009.

Education

BA (English) Yale University, 1985

MA (Political Science) Emory University, 1996

PhD (Political Science) Emory University, 1998

Research projects/grants

U.K Economic and Social Research Council

The Internet and Everyday Rights in Russia. October 2010-April 2013. Project to analyze

whether the internet can champion the causes of citizens in non-democratic states. This

project will study the role of the internet in political life in Russia through an

analysis of how people seek to fulfil their 'everyday' human rights in gaining access to

social services such as pensions and health care. The study uses five central elements to

analyze the role of the internet in these efforts: content, community, catalyst, control,

and co-optation. Grant RES-***-**-****/ 99,407. Principal investigator.

Civic Consumers or Commercial Citizens?: Social Scientists Working with Google UK to

Better Understand Online Search Behaviour. May 2011-May 2012. Knowledge Transfer Small

Grant ES/I030166/1. This knowledge exchange project brings together corporate and academic

spheres of information technology through the fusion of the study of online search

behaviour of consumers (Google UK) and online citizens (social scientists). Via two

workshops, the project summarises and presents to Google UK analysts relevant research in

the social sciences on online search; explores possibilities with Google analysts on how

search information can be used by social-science researchers via Google Analytics tools;

defines collaboratively key societal challenges in understanding the role of search for

citizen and consumer; and establishes an academic network to exchange information with

Google UK. After the first workshop in November 2011, agreement was reached the U.K.

Research Councils to develop up to four projects of approximately 50,000 each to pilot

joint projects on developing search tools for social-science analysis (a sand-pit event

to take place in Spring 2012).

Principal investigator.

Building a New Democracy?: Television, Citizens and Voting in Russia, February 2000-

August 2001. Study included focus groups, survey research, coding of television news, and

political advertising in 1999 and 2000 Russian elections. Grant R000223133/ 40,000.

Principal investigator.

New Security Challenges Program

Safer Spaces: Communication Design for Counter Terror,

January 2008-October 2009. Project

to study public reaction to counter-terrorism measures with scholars in range of

disciplines at seven British universities. Created concept of Interactive Technology in

Transport Situations (InSITE) and provided design brief for video-based interactive

technology to increase crowd security in transport environments. Launched prototype for

British government officials. Joint project of the Engineering and Physical Sciences

Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council

Grant EP/F008503/1/ 415,000. Co-investigator.

The Framing of Terrorist Threat in British Elections, April 2005-December 2006. Study of

2005 British elections to analyze role of terrorist threat for campaign and voters.

Project included focus groups, party election broadcast analysis, news analysis of BBC and

commercial television. Grant R228250048/ 46,000. Principal investigator.

The Framing of Terrorist Threat in U.S. and Russian Elections, October 2003-October 2005.

Study of Russian and U.S. elections to analyze role of terrorist threat in message

creation and reaction. Study included focus groups, advertising analysis, television news

analysis. Grant R223250028/ 44,000. Principal investigator.

Additional grants/projects

International Potential, National Limits: Investigating the Role of the Russian Internet

in Constraining the Social Agenda. British Academy Research Grant. This project seeks to

better understand the dynamics of the online sphere through an analysis of internet

content relating to access to health care in Russia. The research takes a novel approach

to the study of online media and the political sphere by emphasizing the examination of a

particular issue area rather than the analysis of specific online sites. April 2010-

September 2011. 6,780. Principal investigator.

Media and Civil Society in the Newly Independent States, Leverhulme Research Fellowship,

July 2003-July 2004. Project to collect, organize, and analyze archive of media monitoring

data from the European Institute for the Media, Dusseldorf, Germany. 12,700. Principal

investigator.

Additional Funding: Fulbright Award for dissertation fieldwork in Russia; International

Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Dissertation Award; Research Award from the Joan

Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University; Carnegie

Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

Selected publications

Books

Revolution Stalled: The Political Limits of the Internet in the Post-Soviet Sphere. Under

contract to Digital Politics series at Oxford University Press for publication in 2012.

Terrorism, Elections, and Democracy: Political Campaigns in the United States, Great

Britain, and Russia (with L.L. Kaid and M. Berry). 2009. New York: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-

The Russian Internet: Formed More by International or National Media Norms? Post-Soviet

Media Research Methodology Workshop, Centre for Russian and East European Studies,

University of Birmingham, March 2008.

Media and Public Policy: Does the Nation Control Television or Television Control the

Nation?, Scottish Policy Innovation Forum, Glasgow, September 2007.

Journalism & Terrorism Across the Atlantic: A Qualitative Content Analysis of CNN and BBC

Coverage of 9/11 and 7/7 (with B. Barnett, A. Reynolds, and L. Roselle). Presented at the

Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Annual Convention,

Washington, D.C., August 2007.

Putin and the Neo-Soviet Model of the Media. St Antony s College Oxford, Russian and

Eurasian Studies Centre Seminar, October 2007.

Comparative Aspects of Terrorism Coverage: Television and Voters in the 2004 U.S. and

Policy and Academic Outreach

S Lead Consultant, Internet Futures Team, InterMedia, Washington D.C. Work with

consultancy firm with focus on role of media, information, and communication in developing

countries, conflict areas, fragile states, and countries in transition to further develop

internet analysis tools. InterMedia clients include the World Bank, USAID, the Bill and

Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Department of State and the BBC World Service. January

2011 to present.

S Founder and coordinator, Google UK Forum and Google Academic Network in United Kingdom.

Brings together scholars from wide range of British institutions with analysts at Google

for exchange of ideas and research practice. See http://www.media-

politics.com/googleforum.htm.

S Participant, New Security Challenges program of the Research Councils of the United

Kingdom, 2003-2010. Contribute to workshops on role of communication in security for

British government agencies, including Home Office and Cabinet Office.

S Participant, Pontignano Conference, Rome, Italy. Joint discussions and workshops

between British and Italian policy-makers and academics, sponsored by the British Council,

September 2011.

Member of ACE Practitioners Network, ACE Electoral Knowledge Network. International

organization to promote credible, transparent electoral process (see

http://aceproject.org/).

Media monitor/report co-author, The European Institute for the Media, Dusseldorf. Member

of expert teams funded by European Commission to analyze media in Russian Duma elections

and Kazakhstan presidential elections, 1999.

Participant and group rapporteur, UK-Russian Security Policy Seminars, Institute of

Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Sponsored by the British Foreign Office and the

Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy, University of Birmingham. Moscow, November

2007 and November 2009.

Designed and delivered political communication course to 25 young academics from former

Soviet sphere in Open Society Program on media literacy, a joint project of Kyiv-Mohyla

Academy and Towson University. Kyiv, Ukraine, July 2006. Funded by the Soros Foundation.

BBC Scotland News and Current Affairs Review Panel, 2003.

Academic Activities/Affiliations

Grant reviewer, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 2010.

External Reviewer, Staff Research Profiling Exercise, Manchester University, 2009.

External Examiner, MSc in International Political Communication, Advocacy and

Campaigning, Kingston University (London), August 2008-August 2012. External PhD examiner

at Leeds University (2009), University College London, Goldsmiths (2010).

Board Member, International Journal of Press/Politics, 2008-present; Europe-Asia Studies,

2001-present.

Manuscript reviewer: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Duke University

Press, Manchester University Press, Routledge, Palgrave/Macmillan.

Review submissions for journals including Political Communication, The International

Journal of Press/Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Europe-Asia Studies,

Journal of Politics, The British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Communist and

Post-Communist Studies, The European Journal of Political Research, Politic, New Media &

Society, Philosophy & Technology, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

S Book reviews published in The American Political Science Review, Democratization,

Europe-Asia Studies, Slavonic and East European Review, Russian Review.

S Member, Political Communication Section, American Political Science Association, prize

committee member 2008 and 2010.

S Member, Committee of the International Association for Development of the Information

Society (IADIS) 2010 Conference.

S Member, Society of Authors (United Kingdom).

S Reviewer, Scottish Universities Insight Institute, 2009-2010

jOURNALISM EXPERIENCE

Reporter and copy editor, Orlando Sentinel, 1986-1992. Internships at The Washington

Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times (D.C. Bureau), Syracuse

Herald-Journal. Yale campus correspondent for The New York Times. Editor-in-chief, Yale

Daily News. Currently freelance political commentator/analyst for BBC Radio Scotland.

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