Dr Sophie Knowles

Associate Professor in Professional Writing

Sophie Knowles

  • School Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries

  • Department School of Arts

  • Location London

Research activities

Sophie's research focuses on the way the economy is being shaped and represented by media and understood by the general public, particularly during crises.

Her book, Mediating Financial Crisis: Watchdogs, Lapdogs or Canaries in the Coalmine? explores the role of journalists in mediating finance and the economy during times of crisis. More recently she has been exploring the gendered production of economic news, implications of gender in the newsroom and in news content, and the ways inequality is being represented by news media.


Current Teaching

Sophie teaches a number of different modules across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in journalism and media subjects. She leads the MSc digital journalism. She focuses on bridging theory and practice and experiential learning is a core concept in her pedagogy.

She established the Journalism Conversation Series, which allow students to apply theory and encourages students to learn through practice and critical reflection. 


Biography

Sophie is an Associate Professor in the School of Arts. She leads an MSc in digital journalism and focuses her research on the mediation of the economy and inequality.

After time spent writing for newspapers and a global corporate magazine, she completed a PhD at Murdoch University in Australia and is author of a book on the mediation of financial crises, she edited two volumes on media and inequality, and is writing her latest book on the gendered production of economic news.

Publications

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