Dr Maja Simunjak

Associate Professor in Journalism

Maja Simunjak

  • School Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries

  • Department School of Arts

  • Location London

Research activities

Research projects Maja recently participated in include studies of social media, digital diplomacy, election campaigning and journalism. She has published in top communications journals, such as Digital journalism, Journalism, and Journalism Studies. Maja is the author of books ‘Tweeting Brexit: Social Media and the Aftermath of the EU Referendum’ (Routledge, 2022) and ‘Managing emotions in journalism’ (Palgrave, 2023).

Maja won a number of financial awards for her research, individually or as part of a team, from European Commission, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Open Society, University of East Anglia, Middlesex University London, City of Zagreb, and others.


Current Teaching

Maja leads several undergraduate and postgraduate modules, such as Practising Journalism, Digital Storytelling, Global Journalism and News Cultures, Multimedia and Digital Journalism skills, and Major project. She has also developed and taught modules such as Political Communication, Journalism Skills, Multimedia Journalism, Researching Journalism, etc.

She supervises postgraduate research students working on projects focused on journalism, digital and social media, and political communication. For example, she was the Director of Studies to Christa Sathish's PhD project 'Investigating academics' social media use.' She is currently supervising Maryam Jabeen's PhD project focusing on crisis literacy in the context of covid-19 pandemic in Pakistan. 

Maja previously acted as Programme Leader for BA Creative Writing & Journalism, BA Journalism & Communication, and BA Digital Media.


Biography

Dr Maja Simunjak is AHRC Leadership Fellow and SeniorLecturer in Journalism at Middlesex University London. She holds a PhD inPolitical Communication from the University of East Anglia, as well as a BA andMA in Journalism from the University of Zagreb. 

Maja previously worked at the European University Instituteand the University of East Anglia. She also has extensive experience as aprofessional journalist and editor in various media outlets, including thepositions of an editor and news anchor at a national television channel,subeditor and journalist in daily newspapers and a radio journalist and anchor.

External activities

  • External examiner, University of Brighton,
  • Team lead for Croatia, European Commission,

    • Publications

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