Nico Carpentier will join FSV UK academic staff

Nico Carpentier, a renowned expert on communication, media, politics and culture will join the ranks of permanent employees of the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He will work within the Department of Media Studies where he will focus on further strengthening the Department’s research and increasing its international connections and visibility.

“In the past years, I got to know the Institute as a thriving and intellectually stimulating environment, and I very much look forward to working there on a full-time basis. It offers me great opportunities for learning, collaborating and experimenting”, Nico Carpentier explains his decision.

Nico Carpentier is also a part-time Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB – Free University of Brussels) and remains a Senior Researcher at his former work place at Uppsala University (Sweden). Moreover, he is a Research Fellow at the Cyprus University of Technology and Loughborough University. Earlier, he was ECREA Treasurer (2005–2012) and Vice-President (2008–2012), and IAMCR Treasurer (2012–2016). Currently, he is Chair of the Participatory Communication Research Section at IAMCR.

“Nico Carpentier is an excellent scientist and teacher. I welcome his decision to align his further professional life with the Faculty of Social Sciences. Our Institute is an attractive workplace at the European level, and I am happy that Nico’s arrival will further expand our team of foreign scientists and teachers,” stated Jakub Končelík, Director of the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism.

Carpentier’s research covers a broad range of topics, with a special interest in processes of democratisation, participation and power sharing, on the one hand, and conflict, violence and war on the other. He is also considered an expert in discourse theory. His publications include many articles in academic journals and books. His latest books are The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Community Media Participation (2017, Peter Lang, New York); Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, Materialities, and Cultures (2018, co-edited). His new book Communication and Discourse Theory (2019, co-edited) is ready, and will be available in May 2019.

In the last years, he has been experimenting with alternative models of knowledge transfer and arts-based research. His last photography exhibition, entitled Iconoclastic Controversies, took place in Brasilia, in the autumn of 2018. The catalogue of a previous exhibition, Respublika!, was published early 2019. This book, Respublika! Experiments in the Performance of Participation and Democracy, is available for free at Carpentier’s personal website.