Prof Andrew Hoskins
- Interdisciplinary Research Professor in College of Social Sciences - Global Security (Social Sciences College Senior Management)
telephone: 01413307656
email: Andrew.Hoskins@glasgow.ac.uk
Research profile
Professor Andrew Hoskins is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Adam Smith Research Foundation. His research focuses on the theoretical and empirical investigation of today’s ‘new media ecology’ and the nature of/challenges for security, and individual, social and cultural memory in this environment. He has an established record of leading externally funded empirical research into the shifting relations between media, war and terrorism, media and radicalisation, and media and memory.
He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Sage journal of Memory Studies, founding Co-Editor of the Sage journal Media, War & Conflict, Co-Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Memory Studies and Co-Editor of the Routledge book series Media, War & Security.
He has given invited lectures and keynotes in over 15 countries and he is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College.
His latest books are:
2011: Radicalisation and Media: Connectivity and Terrorism in the New Media Ecology (Routledge, with Awan and O'Loughlin)
2010: War and Media: The Emergence of Diffused War (Polity Press, with O'Loughlin)
2009: Save As... Digital Memories (Palgrave Macmillan, co-edited with Garde-Hansen and Reading)
Partner Investigator: Australian Research Council Linkage Project
(with 10 other investigators internationally, PI – Prof. Bruce Scates, Monash Univesity, Melbourne)
2011-2014: ‘Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: A Centenary History of the origins, myths and meanings of Australia’s National Day’
Principal Investigator: AHRC Research Grants Scheme
January 2008- December 2010: ‘Conflicts of Memory: Mediating and Commemorating the 2005 London Bombings’ with Prof. Steven Brown (Psychology, Leicester) and Dr. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus (Applied Linguistics, Swansea).
Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. Paul Taylor, Psychology, Lancaster) UK Government
January-December 2009: ‘Developing our Understanding of the Language of Extremism’ with Dr. Paul Rayson (Computer Science, Lancaster) and Dr. Ben O'Loughlin (International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London).
Principal Investigator: ESRC New Security Challenges Programme/FCO ‘Radicalisation’ and Violence, A Critical Reassessment’
Sept 2007-September 2009, ‘Legitimising the Discourses of Radicalisation: Political Violence in the ‘New Media Ecology’ (with Dr. Ben O’Loughlin, IR, Royal Holloway and Dr. Akil Awan, History, Royal Holloway). April 2010: Project rated ‘Outstanding’.
Co-Investigator: ESRC New Security Challenges Programme
April 2004-December 2006: ‘Shifting Securities: News Cultures Before and Beyond the 2003 Iraq War’ with Prof. Marie Gillespie (Sociology, Open University) and Prof. James Gow (War Studies, King’s College London). May 2007: Project rated ‘Outstanding’.
ESRC/SSRC: Visiting Fellowship
April-May 2006: Media and War: with Prof. Philip Seib.
HERA European Network
2009: 'New Media Ecologies and the Future of Collective Memory' (with Prof. Ann Rigney, Utrecht).
Recent invited keynotes and papers
- 15.07.11 'Navigating the mainstream in the new media ecology' (with Dr. Ben O'Loughlin), 'Responding to Extremisms: Media roles and responsibilities' conference, Bournemouth University.
- 09.06.11 Keynote: '7/7 and 'Connective Memory': Interactional Trajectories of Remembering in Post-Scarcity Culture', Film and Memory: Fourth Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies Conference, University of Stirling.
- 02.03.11 ‘Premediation and Memory’ (with Prof. Astrid Erll) Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge.
- 13.01.11 'Persistence of Vision', Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen.
- 22.10.10 ‘Twilight of Media, Twilight of Memory’, Memory Day 2010, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University.
- 20.10.10 Keynote: Public Lecture: ‘Media, War and Memory’, Macquarie University, Sydney.
- 18.10.10 ‘Digital Network Memory’, Memory-Media-Movement, Cognition-Culture-Collaboration Workshop, Sydney.
- 07.10.10 Keynote: ‘Digital Memories’, First EU Screen Conference: Content Selection Policies and Contextualisation, Rome.
- 27.07.10 ‘Challenges of Archiving: Archival Memories’, Horizon Theme Day: Archives in the Digital Age, University of Nottingham.
- 07.07.10 Panellist, ‘The London Bombings Five Years On: Reflections on the Future of Counterterrorism Conference’, Chatham House, London.
- 17-18.06.10 ‘Persistence of Vision: Vision, Memory and Media’: Opening Address and Chair of Artists’ Breakfast Symposium, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool.
- 11.06.10 ‘Digitized Bodies and Diffused War: The Ethics of Informational Infrastructures’ (with Dr. Ben O’Loughlin), War and the Body Conference, Imperial War Museum, London.
- 14.04.10 ‘Media, Memory and the Connective Turn’, Faculty of Social Sciences Lecture Series, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 05.02.10 Keynote: ‘From Collective to Connective Memory’, Transcultural Memory Conference, English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths and Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.
