People - Affiliates

Stefaan Verhulst

Stefaan Verhulst was the co-founder and Head of PCMLP from the programme's inception in December 1996 - May 2002, as well as senior research fellow at the Centre for Socio Legal Studies. In addition, he was the Unesco Chairholder in Communications Law and Policy for the UK. Before his move to Oxford in 1996, he had been a lecturer on communications law and policy issues in Belgium and founder and co-director of the International Media and info-comms Policy and Law studies (IMPS) at the School of Law, University of Glasgow. Mr.

Troels Larsen

Troels is currently conducting doctoral research on a harmful ‘chilling effect’ on freedom of expression as identified by the ECtHR under supervision of Professor Ian Walden and Jonathan Griffiths (http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/people/research/larsen.html).

Andrea Millwood-Hargrave

Andrea Millwood-Hargrave was Research Director of the Broadcasting Standards Commission, now part of Ofcom. She joined the BSC in February 1991. The Commission's role was to produce codes of practice, consider audience complaints and to conduct research and monitoring on standards and fairness in broadcasting. She commissioned a varied programme of broadcasting research looking at areas within the remit.

Michael Starks

Michael Starks is the author of Switching to Digital Television, published in 2007 by Intellect Books and the University of Chicago Press. While the book is principally about the relationship between public policy and the market in the UK, it includes international comparative study, the research for which was funded by a grant from the British Academy. Michael Starks is now also the editor of a new International Journal of Digital Television due to be launched towards the end of 2009 and to publish three issues annually from 2010.

Damian Tambini

Damian Tambini is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications, LSE and convenor of the MSC in Communication Regulation and Policy.  He is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), at the Oxford Internet Institute and at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.  He was Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University from June 2002 - August 2006.  Dr Tambini's research interests include media and telecommunications policy and democ

Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers is an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University's Department of Communication where he works closely with the Center on International Media Education. He has previously been a Visiting Assistant Professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism London Program and a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He earned his Ph.D. from USC Annenberg in 2009 where he studied and wrote about the geopolitical uses of news and information by international actors.

Simon Haselock

Simon Haselock is co-founder and Director of Albany Associates. He is a pioneer in media intervention in post-conflict countries. He was the Deputy High Representative for Media Affairs in the Office of The High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, creating the organisation for broadcast frequency spectrum management and licensing and providing everyday guidance on the public presentation of policy. As Temporary Media Commissioner in Kosovo he was responsible for the regulation of both the print and broadcast media in accordance with best international practice.