Website: https://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/glenda-cooper
Dr Glenda Cooper is a senior lecturer at City, University of London, who began her academic career specialising in coverage of humanitarian crises and the use of user-generated content. This resulted in her monograph 'Reporting Humanitarian Crises in a Social Media Age' (Routledge, 2018), the edited collection 'Humanitarianism, Communication and Change' (Peter Lang, 2015) with Prof Simon Cottle as well as a project into UK media coverage of refugees post the 2015 crisis with her colleagues Dr Lindsey Blumell and Dr Mel Bunce. She is currently working on a book with Prof Suzanne Franks about turning points in humanitarian coverage, due out 2021. Dr Cooper is also currently co-investigator on the DMINR project funded by the Google Digital News Initiative and which is a collaboration between the journalism department and Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCID) department.