Professor Dominic Wring

BA (Nottingham), PhD (Cambridge)

  • PGT Programme Leader (ESRC DTP) (Communication and Media)
  • Professor of Political Communication

Since joining the University in 1997 Dominic has been primarily engaged in exploring the relationships between the media, communication and politics. He co-founded and then convened the UK Political Studies Association's Media Politics Group for a decade and subsequently served as Chair of the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee for Political Communication. He also helped launch the Journal of Political Marketing, serving as its first European Editor and on its editorial board as well as those of the Journal of Public Affairs and the Central European Journal of Communication. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Romanian and Spanish. Currently He is lead editor of the Political Communication series of books, a volume of which has appeared after every British General Election since 1979. He served as an expert witness during the UK Competition Commission inquiry into BSkyB’s controversial acquisition of ITV shares.