Dr Saira Ali

Dr Saira Ali
 Position Senior Lecturer
 Org Unit School of Humanities
 Email saira.ali@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone 831 31403
 Location Floor/Room 9 ,  Napier ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

    Saira Ali has over ten years of experience in the media industry, having worked at the top tiers of publishing with Kitab Pvt Ltd and the Oxford ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press in Pakistan. She started her academic career in 2015 at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of the Sunshine Coast (USC), where she taught in various Public Relations and Social Media courses. She joined the Department of Media at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide in 2019. Broadly, her work focuses on securitization and the media-terrorism nexus.

    In 2022 her book Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk was published in the Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies series. Saira also co-authored, Public Relations & Strategic Communication (2019), for Oxford ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥. She regularly publishes in high ranking journals such as Global Media and Communication, International Communication Gazette and Media International ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥. 

  • Qualifications

     

    2019    Doctor of Philosophy, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of the Sunshine Coast

    ·                           Thesis Title: World Risk Society: East-West Comparative Analysis of Mediatised Terrorism

    2019    Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellow, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of the Sunshine Coast

    2013    Graduate Diploma in Arts – Communications & Public Relations, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of the Sunshine Coast

    2005    Masters in Transnational Communications & Global Media, Goldsmith’s College, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of London

    2000    Masters in English Literature, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of the Punjab, Pakistan

     

     

  • Research Interests

    Global mediatisation of risk, security and Othering; Journalistic practices; Censorship; Terrorism/counterterrorism; Cultural studies; Representation

     

     

  • Publications

    See Researcher Profile

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Entry last updated: Wednesday, 20 Mar 2024

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