Alison Anderson

Biography

A.Anderson@plymouth.ac.uk Qualifications BA (Hons.) Sociology, University of York, 1986 PhD, University of Greenwich, 1993 Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education,University of Plymouth, 1992 Professional membership Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacture (FRSA) Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) Member of International Association of Mass Communication Research (IAMCR) Environmental Committee Founding member and on Board of Directors of International Environmental Communication Association http://TheIECA.org Member of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Member of International Sociological Association (ISA) and Research Committee on Sociology of Science and Technology Member of European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Member of European Sociological Association Research Group on Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (SoRU) Roles on external bodies 2014- 2017 Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Communication, official journal of the International Environmental Communication Association www.tandfonline.com/renc 2013- Board member, International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) 2011- Member of International Advisory Board, International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. 2011-2013 Editorial Board Member of Sociology. 2009- Editorial Board Member of Environmental Communication 2008-2011 Associate Board member of Sociology. 2009- 2016 Associate Editor, International Journal of Technoethics 2006-2010 Editorial Board Member of Sociological Research Online.

Research Interest

Mass Media and Culture; Risk; Genetics; Nanotechnologies; Environmental Sustainability; Marine Pollution; Social Movements; Science Communication Other research Crime Reporting, New Media Research degrees awarded to supervised students PhD ‘Sustainable Development: The Reflexive Governance of Risk' , Gregory Borne. PhD 'The Distribution of Attitudinal Attachment to the Male Breadwinner Role: A quantitative study of the Plymouth travel to work area', Suzanne Chamberlain ESRC funded. PhD 'Managerial Decision Making: A Discursive Analysis', Teri McConville. PhD 'An Exploration into how Students with Dyslexia identify with their Condition, with Particular Reference to the Tensions which Surround Public and Private Perceptions of Dyslexia’, Deborah Shenton. PhD 'Metaphors of Health and Disease in Nazi Film Propaganda', Melanie Wright. PhD ‘Ourfoodstories@e-mail.com' , Julie Parsons. PhD 'The Discourses and Lived Experiences of 'Maternal Obesity' and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnancy (T2DM) Rachel Jarvie, ESRC funded. ResM 'Faith in Practice: A Mixed Method Study Exploring the Impact of Faith Based Organisations in Delivering Voluntary and Community Sector Activities in Cornwall', Lois Wild, ESF funded. PhD (2017) 'An exploration of how agency and socio-cultural milieu support greater or lesser controlled gambling and recovery from gambling addiction', Plymouth University. External Examiner for: PhD (2006) ' Contesting Wilderness: Media, Movement and Environmental Conflict in Tasmania', Libby Lester, University of Melbourne, Australia. MA (2008) ' A Comparative Analaysis of the Press Coverage of the Whaling Conflict in Australia and Japan', Mitsuru Kudo, University of Tasmania, Australia. MA (2009) 'Health Risk Communication: Reporting the Avian Influenza in New Zealand Newspapers' Brenda Mackie, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. PhD (2013) 'Global Warming Campaigns: Framing Analysis and Campaign Effectiveness', Teerada Chongkolrattaporn, Macquarie University, Australia. PhD (2013) 'Travel Journalism:Cosmopolitan Concern and the Place-Branded Environment', Lynn McGaurr, University of Tasmania, Australia. PhD (2013) 'Modern Science Communication in a Global Context:Perspectives on Nanotechnology from Swedish, Polish and Iranian Press Coverage' Szczepan Jan Lemanczyk, University of Nottingham.