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Dr Gemma Horton appointed to European Commission's Expert Group against SLAPPs

Dr Horton, Impact Fellow for the Centre for Freedom of the Media, will join a prestigious group to advise the European Commission to legislate against Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation.
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New report uncovers differences in integrating EDI in UK and South African universities' guidelines on Generative AI

A recent report by researchers from the University of Sheffield and the University of Cape Town highlights uneven distribution of institutional guidelines on the use of Generative AI in education, and differences in the ways they discuss EDI.
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Dr Dani Madrid-Morales appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of prestigious Journal of Communication

Dr Dani Madrid-Morales, Lecturer in Journalism and Global Communication, has been appointed as one of a new team of co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication.
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Dr Dani Madrid-Morales provides oral evidence on disinformation to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee

Dr Dani Madrid-Morales, Lecturer in Journalism and Global Communication, gave evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee this Tuesday, 16th September 2025.
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School of Information, Journalism and Communication host ECREA Radio and Sound Conference 2025

Titled “Cog in a Wheel? Radio and Sound in the Changing Mediascape,” the event will bring together scholars and practitioners to take a fresh look at how radio has evolved—and continues to evolve—within today’s fast-moving global media landscape.
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Dr Laura Sbaffi to develop innovative digital board game to tackle 'predatory publishing'

With an estimated 15,000 predatory journals exploiting researchers worldwide, particularly early-career academics, traditional educational approaches have proven insufficient against increasingly sophisticated fraudulent tactics.
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Dr Mengdie Zhuang wins Best Paper at ACM ICTIR 2025

Dr Mengdie Zhuang, Lecturer in Data Science, was a co-author of the paper ‘Impersonating the Crowd: Evaluating LLMs’ Ability to Replicate Human Judgment in Misinformation Assessment’, which received the Best Paper award at ACM ICTIR 2025.
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New research suggests ChatGPT ignores article retractions and errors when used to inform literature reviews

A paper co-authored by Professor Mike Thelwall and Dr Irini Katsirea examines issues of Large Language Models (LLMs) failing to flag articles which have been retracted or are discredited when asked to evaluate their quality.