Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am interested in supervising students in a wide range of areas including contemporary political communication, digital journalism, disinformation, deception, surveillance, sousveillance, discourse, accountability and power.
Research activity per year
I research the interplay between journalism and political and risk communication across 4 areas:
Keywords
Emotional AI, strategic political communication, journalism, civil society, surveillance, sousveillance, social resistance, trust, risk communication, propaganda, persuasion, misinformation, disinformation
Research Monographs:
Bakir, V. and A. McStay, 2022. Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods. Palgrave-Macmillan/Springer. [open access]
Bakir, V. 2018.Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability: Relationships of Influence with Civil Society. London: Routledge.
Bakir, V. 2013. Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror: Agenda–Building Struggles. Routledge.
Bakir, V. 2010. Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication: Iraq, USA, UK. New York: Continuum.
Bakir, V. & D.Barlow, (eds.) 2007. Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Research awards:
As an interdisciplinary scholar, I have won awards from diverse funding bodies e.g. AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, NERC, Innovate UK, Arts Councils. A list of my funded projects are at: 0000-0002-6828-8384
Current grants comprise:
2023-2025: £364,000 FEC. Automated Empathy – Globalising International Standards (AEGIS): Japan and Ethically Aligned Regions. UKRI Technologies Mission Fund - Impact Accelerator. (PI Andrew McStay, Co-Is Vian Bakir, Phoebi Li (Univ of Sussex), Ben Bland (Chair of IEEE working group), Alexander Laffer Univ. of Winchester)
2023- . £38m. Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) – Contribution to Sociology & Science and Technology Pathway (in the “Society and Wellbeing” cluster).
2020 – 2023: £710,000 (comprising £497,710 FEC from ESRC, & 29,645,000 Yen from Japan Science & Technology funds). Part of UKRI-JST Joint Call on Artificial Intelligence and Society, our project is on Emotional AI in Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan on Designing for An Ethical Life. PI Andrew McStay. Co-I Vian Bakir. Other Investigators: Lachlan Urquhart (Edinburgh Univ.), Diana Miranda (Northumbria Univ.), Peter Mantello (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ.), Hiromi Tanaka (Meiji Univ.), Nader Ghotbi (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ.), Hiroshi Miyashita (Chuo Univ.). Grant ref. ES/T00696X/1.
Teaching and Supervision
Undergraduate modules taught:
PhD and MRes students:
I am interested in supervising students in a wide range of areas including contemporary political communication, journalism, disinformation, deception, digital media, intelligence elites, discourse, accountability and power.
Current (1st supervisor)
Position: Professor of Journalism & Political Communication
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 (0) 1248 382751
Location: Main Arts
Personal website: Academia.edu ResearchGate
Project Websites: DATA-PSST! Intelligence Elites Emotional AI
Current Administrative Responsibilities:
Co-Director of Network for Study of Media and Persuasive Communication.
School of History, Law & Social Science Research Committee (grant leadership)
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
McStay, A. (Participant) & Bakir, V. (Participant)
Impact: Societal, Cultural
McStay, A. (Participant) & Bakir, V. (Participant)
Impact: Policy and Public Services
Bakir, V. (Participant)
Impact: Policy and Public Services
Bakir, V. (Participant), McStay, A. (Participant) & McDermott Rees, Y. (Participant)
Impact: Policy and Public Services
Bakir, V. (PI)
1/07/20 → 1/08/22
Project: Research
Bakir, V. (PI)
1/12/14 → 19/12/17
Project: Research
Bakir, V. (Reviewer)
Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
Bakir, V. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Bakir, V. (Reviewer)
Activity: Other › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
McStay, A. (Creator) & Bakir, V. (Creator), UK Data Service ReShare, 2025
Dataset
Bakir, V. (Creator), McStay, A. (Creator) & Laffer, A. (Creator), UK Data Service ReShare, 8 Nov 2023
Dataset
McStay, A. (Creator), Bakir, V. (Creator), Urquhart, L. (Creator) & Diana, M. (Creator), UK Data Service ReShare, 14 Nov 2023
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