School of Social & Political Sciences

Professor Catherine Happer

  • Professor of Media Sociology (Sociological & Cultural Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 6387
email: Catherine.Happer@glasgow.ac.uk

College of Social Sciences, School of Social & Political Sciences, Adam Smith Building, 1016

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544

Biography

Professor Catherine Happer is Director of the Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG) and Subject Group Lead of Media, Culture and Society. She is a sociologist who examines the role of the media in the construction of public understanding and belief with particular focus on media accounts of climate change and environmentalism.  In 2024, she published ‘The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age’ (Manchester University Press) which sets out a new model for understanding how modes of media engagement interact dynamically with ideology, value systems, online and offline communities, identity and lived experience shape patterns in opinion and belief in the context of a radically changed media landscape.

Catherine graduated with a First in Sociology from the University of Glasgow, winning the Adam Smith Prize and then a PhD scholarship within the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. After graduating, she worked as an Audience Researcher and then Factual programme-maker at the BBC. Since returning to the University, she has worked on a series of major research projects with Chatham House looking at the most effective communications to facilitate the public transition to sustainable behaviours; a collaborative study of Trump’s rhetoric and use of media; an EPSRC funded study exploring  the role of online content moderation in shaping perceptions of acceptable and unacceptable discourse and hate speech; and is currently working on a major mixed methods study of media and the cost of living crisis.

Catherine has given evidence at the House of Commons Select Committee on Climate, Policy and Public Understanding, presented to the Scottish Government and at national and international conferences and appeared on the BBC Radio Scotland’s GMS and Call Kay, FiveLive’s Richard Bacon show, BBC World Service’s The Inquiry and The Food Chain and Al Jazeera. She has written for a number of blogs including The Conversation, Bella Caledonia and Open Democracy. She sits on the BBC UofG Working Group, is a founder member of the Scottish Institute for Public Interest Journalism,, and on the editorial board of Sociology.  She was previously co-chair of Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) Scotland.  She is published in international journals and is also co-author of Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security: New Methods in Understanding Audiences (Routledge) and co-editor of Trump’s Media War (Palgrave).

In 2015, Catherine launched the MSc in Media, Communications and International Journalism, and played a key role in developing the MSc in Media, Culture and Society.  She also teaches an Honours courses in the Division of Sociological and Cultural Studies.

Research interests

  • Climate change and environmental communication
  • Audience reception theory
  • Media and behaviour change
  • Digital media and public opinion
  • AI and content moderation

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 43.

2026

Cordova, Alejandra and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2026) “Stop Censoring Tits”: the impact of Instagram’s content moderation on feminist artists in the UK. Feminist Media Studies, (doi: 10.1080/14680777.2026.2684667) (Early Online Publication)

de Nadal, Lluis ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-3006, Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Russell, Cairsti (2026) Audience perspectives: trust, sourcing and media engagement. In: Happer, Catherine, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul (eds.) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 91-115. ISBN 9783032190802 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19080-2_5)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2026) Methods of the GUMG: thematic, content and audience analysis. In: Happer, Catherine, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul (eds.) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 23-40. ISBN 9783032190802 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19080-2_2)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Hoff, Isaac ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5800-6737 (2026) Introduction. In: Happer, Catherine, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul (eds.) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9783032190802 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19080-2_1)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Reilly, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6890-778X (2026) Conclusion. In: Happer, Catherine, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul (eds.) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 143-157. ISBN 9783032190796 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19080-2_7)

Russell, Cairsti, Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and de Nadal, Lluis ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-3006 (2026) Audience perspectives: understandings, perceptions, and responses to the COLC. In: Happer, Catherine, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul (eds.) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 117-141. ISBN 9783032190802 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19080-2_6)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6890-778X (Eds.) (2026) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783032190796

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 (2026) Response to Scottish Parliament's Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee in its Forthcoming Inquiry into the Broadcasting Market in Scotland [Annex B]. Documentation. Scottish Parliament.

2025

Mabweazara, Hayes Mawindi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0460-7814 and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2025) Rethinking the sociology of news: global empirical and theoretical perspectives. Journalism Studies, (doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2025.2590209) (Early Online Publication)

Hoff, Isaac ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5800-6737 and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2025) Crisis. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(4), pp. 1189-1197. (doi: 10.1177/13675494241270411)

Hoff, Isaac ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5800-6737 and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2025) Mediating the cost-of-living crisis: the meaning of a ‘keyphrase’ in UK contemporary cultural discourse. Critical Sociology, (doi: 10.1177/08969205241311560) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2024) The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526180223

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2024) Media influence in a digital world. Sociology Review, 34(2), pp. 18-22.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Åberg, Anders (2024) Stranger Things on TikTok: young people, climate change and upside down political communication. HumaNetten, 52, pp. 9-26. (doi: 10.15626/hn.20245202)

2023

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2023) 100 years of BBC Scotland. [Film]

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2023) How Nicola Sturgeon mastered the art of public image and won support for a decade. Conversation, 22 Feb.

2022

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2022) Is Scotland’s media ready for the next independence referendum? Conversation, 3 Oct.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Schlesinger, Philip ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0078-9630, Langer, Ana Ines ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5331-544X, Mabweazara, Hayes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0460-7814 and Hinde, Dominic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6081-5672 (2022) Scotland’s Sustainable Media Future: Challenges and Opportunities: a Stakeholder Analysis. Project Report. Glasgow University Media Group and Centre for Cultural Policy Research.

Breitsohl, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3337-5533, Jiménez, Nadia, Megicks, Phil, Krasonikolakis, Ioannis, Ramoglou, Stratos, Aagerup, Ulf and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2022) Bullying in online brand communities-exploring consumers' intentions to intervene. In: Hopfgartner, Frank, Jaidka, Kokil, Mayr, Philipp, Jose, Joemon and Breitsohl, Jan (eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (13618). Springer International Publishing, pp. 436-443. ISBN 9783031190964 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-19097-1_30)

2021

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2021) Introduction to: How Long Have We Got? (1971) by Peter Ritchie Calder. In: Hooton, Brett, Koning, Robin and Thurston, Meaghan (eds.) With the World to Choose From: Celebrating Seven Decades of the Beatty Lecture at McGill University. McGill-Queen's University Press: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago. ISBN 9780228008002

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Hoskins, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-2728 (2021) Hacking the Archive: Media, memory, and history in the post-trust era. In: Moss, Michael and Thomas, David (eds.) Post Truth in the Archives. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

2019

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, McGuinness, Paul, McNeill, Fergus ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3547-6482 and Tiripelli, Giuliana (2019) Punishment, legitimacy and taste: the role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions. Crime, Media, Culture, 15(2), pp. 301-321. (doi: 10.1177/1741659018773848)

Happer, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Wellesley, L. (2019) Meat consumption, behaviour and the media environment: a focus group analysis across four countries. Food Security, 11(1), pp. 123-139. (doi: 10.1007/s12571-018-0877-1)

Alkharashi, Abdulwhab, Storer, Tim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4026-097X, Jose, Joemon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9228-1759, Hoskins, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-2728 and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2019) Understanding Abusive Behaviour Between Online and Offline Group Discussions. In: CHI 2019: 37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, USA, 4-9 May 2019, CS15. ISBN 9781450359719 (doi: 10.1145/3290607.3299042)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2019) Financialisation, media and social change. In: Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Robertson, Mary (eds.) Material Cultures of Financialisation. Routledge, pp. 83-95. ISBN 9781138549777

2018

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Hoskins, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-2728 and Merrin, William (Eds.) (2018) Trump's Media War. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783319940687

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Hoskins, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-2728 and Merrin, William (2018) Weaponizing reality: an introduction to Trump's war on the media. In: Happer, Catherine, Hoskins, Andrew and Merrin, William (eds.) Trump's Media War. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 3-22. ISBN 9783319390687 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-94069-4_1)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2018) The mainstream media in a ‘post-truth’ world. Sociology Review, 27(4), pp. 18-21.

2017

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2017) Media, crime and punishment in the digital age. Sociology Review, 26(3), pp. 26-29.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2017) Belief in change: the role of media and communications in driving action on climate change. In: Elliott, Alexander, Cullis, James and Damodaran, Vinita (eds.) Climate Change and the Humanities: Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 177-197. ISBN 9781137551238 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-55124-5_9)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2017) Financialisation, media and social change. New Political Economy, 22(4), pp. 437-449. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2017.1259301)

2016

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2016) Models of media analysis: a climate-change study. Sociology Review, 25(4), pp. 2-5.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Philo, Gregory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 (2016) New approaches to understanding the role of the news media in the formation of public attitudes and behaviours on climate change. European Journal of Communication, 31(2), pp. 136-151. (doi: 10.1177/0267323115612213)

2015

Wellesley, Laura, Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Froggatt, Antony, Bailey, Rob, Philo, Gregory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 and Shairp, Rachel (2015) Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption. Project Report. Chatham House, London.

Philo, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563, Miller, D. and Happer, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2015) Circuits of communication and structures of power: the sociology of the mass media. In: Holborn, Martin (ed.) Contemporary Sociology. Polity Press. ISBN 9780745661827

Wellesley, Laura, Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Froggatt, Antony (2015) Chatham House Report: Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption. Project Report. Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London.

2014

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2014) Who benefits from media coverage of climate change? Not the audience. Conversation, 4 Apr.

2013

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Philo, Greg ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 (2013) The role of the media in the construction of public belief and social change. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 1(1), pp. 321-336. (doi: 10.5964/jspp.v1i1.96)

Philo, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 and Happer, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2013) Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security: New Methods in Understanding Audiences. Series: Routledge new developments in communication and society. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415835091

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2013) Financialisation, Media and Social Change. Working Paper. FESSUD: Financialisation, Economy, Society & Sustainable Development, Leeds.

Philo, Gregory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2013) Science and Technology Committee: Joint Written Evidence [Communicating Climate Science]. Other. House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, London.

2012

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Philo, Gregory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 and Froggatt, Antony (2012) Climate Change and Energy Security: Assessing the Impact of Information and its Delivery on Attitudes and Behaviour. Project Report. UKERC: UK Energy Research Centre, London.

2007

Hill, Malcolm, Graham, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Caulfield, Catriona, Ross, Nicola and Shelton, Anita (2007) Inter-ethnic relations among children at school: the perspectives of young people in Scotland. European Journal of Education, 42(2), pp. 267-279. (doi: 10.1111/j.1465-3435.2007.00300.x)

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Articles

Cordova, Alejandra and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2026) “Stop Censoring Tits”: the impact of Instagram’s content moderation on feminist artists in the UK. Feminist Media Studies, (doi: 10.1080/14680777.2026.2684667) (Early Online Publication)

Mabweazara, Hayes Mawindi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0460-7814 and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2025) Rethinking the sociology of news: global empirical and theoretical perspectives. Journalism Studies, (doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2025.2590209) (Early Online Publication)

Hoff, Isaac ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5800-6737 and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2025) Crisis. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(4), pp. 1189-1197. (doi: 10.1177/13675494241270411)

Hoff, Isaac ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5800-6737 and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2025) Mediating the cost-of-living crisis: the meaning of a ‘keyphrase’ in UK contemporary cultural discourse. Critical Sociology, (doi: 10.1177/08969205241311560) (Early Online Publication)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2024) Media influence in a digital world. Sociology Review, 34(2), pp. 18-22.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Åberg, Anders (2024) Stranger Things on TikTok: young people, climate change and upside down political communication. HumaNetten, 52, pp. 9-26. (doi: 10.15626/hn.20245202)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2023) How Nicola Sturgeon mastered the art of public image and won support for a decade. Conversation, 22 Feb.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2022) Is Scotland’s media ready for the next independence referendum? Conversation, 3 Oct.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, McGuinness, Paul, McNeill, Fergus ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3547-6482 and Tiripelli, Giuliana (2019) Punishment, legitimacy and taste: the role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions. Crime, Media, Culture, 15(2), pp. 301-321. (doi: 10.1177/1741659018773848)

Happer, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Wellesley, L. (2019) Meat consumption, behaviour and the media environment: a focus group analysis across four countries. Food Security, 11(1), pp. 123-139. (doi: 10.1007/s12571-018-0877-1)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2018) The mainstream media in a ‘post-truth’ world. Sociology Review, 27(4), pp. 18-21.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2017) Media, crime and punishment in the digital age. Sociology Review, 26(3), pp. 26-29.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2017) Financialisation, media and social change. New Political Economy, 22(4), pp. 437-449. (doi: 10.1080/13563467.2017.1259301)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2016) Models of media analysis: a climate-change study. Sociology Review, 25(4), pp. 2-5.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Philo, Gregory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 (2016) New approaches to understanding the role of the news media in the formation of public attitudes and behaviours on climate change. European Journal of Communication, 31(2), pp. 136-151. (doi: 10.1177/0267323115612213)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2014) Who benefits from media coverage of climate change? Not the audience. Conversation, 4 Apr.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Philo, Greg ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 (2013) The role of the media in the construction of public belief and social change. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 1(1), pp. 321-336. (doi: 10.5964/jspp.v1i1.96)

Hill, Malcolm, Graham, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Caulfield, Catriona, Ross, Nicola and Shelton, Anita (2007) Inter-ethnic relations among children at school: the perspectives of young people in Scotland. European Journal of Education, 42(2), pp. 267-279. (doi: 10.1111/j.1465-3435.2007.00300.x)

Books

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2024) The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526180223

Philo, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 and Happer, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2013) Communicating Climate Change and Energy Security: New Methods in Understanding Audiences. Series: Routledge new developments in communication and society. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415835091

Book Sections

de Nadal, Lluis ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-3006, Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Russell, Cairsti (2026) Audience perspectives: trust, sourcing and media engagement. In: Happer, Catherine, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul (eds.) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 91-115. ISBN 9783032190802 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19080-2_5)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2026) Methods of the GUMG: thematic, content and audience analysis. In: Happer, Catherine, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul (eds.) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 23-40. ISBN 9783032190802 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19080-2_2)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Hoff, Isaac ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5800-6737 (2026) Introduction. In: Happer, Catherine, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul (eds.) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9783032190802 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19080-2_1)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Reilly, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6890-778X (2026) Conclusion. In: Happer, Catherine, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul (eds.) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 143-157. ISBN 9783032190796 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19080-2_7)

Russell, Cairsti, Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and de Nadal, Lluis ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2216-3006 (2026) Audience perspectives: understandings, perceptions, and responses to the COLC. In: Happer, Catherine, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul (eds.) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 117-141. ISBN 9783032190802 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-19080-2_6)

Breitsohl, Jan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3337-5533, Jiménez, Nadia, Megicks, Phil, Krasonikolakis, Ioannis, Ramoglou, Stratos, Aagerup, Ulf and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2022) Bullying in online brand communities-exploring consumers' intentions to intervene. In: Hopfgartner, Frank, Jaidka, Kokil, Mayr, Philipp, Jose, Joemon and Breitsohl, Jan (eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (13618). Springer International Publishing, pp. 436-443. ISBN 9783031190964 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-19097-1_30)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2021) Introduction to: How Long Have We Got? (1971) by Peter Ritchie Calder. In: Hooton, Brett, Koning, Robin and Thurston, Meaghan (eds.) With the World to Choose From: Celebrating Seven Decades of the Beatty Lecture at McGill University. McGill-Queen's University Press: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago. ISBN 9780228008002

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Hoskins, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-2728 (2021) Hacking the Archive: Media, memory, and history in the post-trust era. In: Moss, Michael and Thomas, David (eds.) Post Truth in the Archives. Oxford University Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2019) Financialisation, media and social change. In: Bayliss, Kate, Fine, Ben and Robertson, Mary (eds.) Material Cultures of Financialisation. Routledge, pp. 83-95. ISBN 9781138549777

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Hoskins, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-2728 and Merrin, William (2018) Weaponizing reality: an introduction to Trump's war on the media. In: Happer, Catherine, Hoskins, Andrew and Merrin, William (eds.) Trump's Media War. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 3-22. ISBN 9783319390687 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-94069-4_1)

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2017) Belief in change: the role of media and communications in driving action on climate change. In: Elliott, Alexander, Cullis, James and Damodaran, Vinita (eds.) Climate Change and the Humanities: Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 177-197. ISBN 9781137551238 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-55124-5_9)

Philo, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563, Miller, D. and Happer, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2015) Circuits of communication and structures of power: the sociology of the mass media. In: Holborn, Martin (ed.) Contemporary Sociology. Polity Press. ISBN 9780745661827

Edited Books

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Eldridge, Alison and Reilly, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6890-778X (Eds.) (2026) Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: A Glasgow University Media Group Book. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783032190796

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Hoskins, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-2728 and Merrin, William (Eds.) (2018) Trump's Media War. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783319940687

Research Reports or Papers

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Forrest, Catriona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3010-9088 (2026) Response to Scottish Parliament's Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee in its Forthcoming Inquiry into the Broadcasting Market in Scotland [Annex B]. Documentation. Scottish Parliament.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Schlesinger, Philip ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0078-9630, Langer, Ana Ines ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5331-544X, Mabweazara, Hayes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0460-7814 and Hinde, Dominic ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6081-5672 (2022) Scotland’s Sustainable Media Future: Challenges and Opportunities: a Stakeholder Analysis. Project Report. Glasgow University Media Group and Centre for Cultural Policy Research.

Wellesley, Laura, Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Froggatt, Antony, Bailey, Rob, Philo, Gregory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 and Shairp, Rachel (2015) Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption. Project Report. Chatham House, London.

Wellesley, Laura, Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 and Froggatt, Antony (2015) Chatham House Report: Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption. Project Report. Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2013) Financialisation, Media and Social Change. Working Paper. FESSUD: Financialisation, Economy, Society & Sustainable Development, Leeds.

Philo, Gregory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2013) Science and Technology Committee: Joint Written Evidence [Communicating Climate Science]. Other. House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee, London.

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544, Philo, Gregory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1552-4563 and Froggatt, Antony (2012) Climate Change and Energy Security: Assessing the Impact of Information and its Delivery on Attitudes and Behaviour. Project Report. UKERC: UK Energy Research Centre, London.

Conference Proceedings

Alkharashi, Abdulwhab, Storer, Tim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4026-097X, Jose, Joemon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9228-1759, Hoskins, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1207-2728 and Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2019) Understanding Abusive Behaviour Between Online and Offline Group Discussions. In: CHI 2019: 37th Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, USA, 4-9 May 2019, CS15. ISBN 9781450359719 (doi: 10.1145/3290607.3299042)

Film

Happer, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-8544 (2023) 100 years of BBC Scotland. [Film]

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Grants

Principal Investigator: Human Data Interaction Network: EPSRC Network Plus
Public trust and understanding of online content moderation, and its impacts on public discourse (£7,257.00) July 2019

Co-Investigator: Avatar Alliance Foundation International Research
Public Understanding and Behaviour, and the Impact of Diet for Climate Change and Food Security Policies: Case studies in Brazil, China, UK and US (£155,289.56). Principal Investigator: Professor Greg Philo. August 2014

Co- Investigator: TSB/Future City, Glasgow City Council
Public attitudes, beliefs and behaviours and the role of social media in relation to energy efficiency (£90,975.80). Principal Investigator: Professor Greg Philo. October 2013

Principal Investigator: Knowledge Exchange Fund, University of Glasgow
Public engagEment with energy efficiency: extending the Future City work (£21,044.77). November 2013

Named Researcher/co-bid-writer: British Academy Small Research Grants
Probation, media representations and public understanding of justice (£9,859.68). Principal Investigator: Professor Fergus McNeill, Co-Investigator: Professor Greg Philo. March 2013

Supervision

I am interested in supervising projects in any of the following areas:

  • Climate change and environmental communications
  • Audience reception theory
  • Media and behaviour change
  • Digital media and public opinion
  • AI and content moderation

I am currently supervising doctoral projects in:

  • Re-integration of former prisoners 
  • Cyber commemorations and public support for warfare
  • Government policy, media coverage and public understanding of climate change in China
  • Media coverage of deaths in custody
  • China Daily’s coverage of climate change and environmentalism

I have supervised to completion PhDs in:

  • Western media framing of events in Venezuela
  • Vegetarianism in China
  • Clapp, Robb
    “AND YOU DARE CALL YOURSELF AN ENVIRONMENTALIST?”: ENVIRONMENTISM, MEDIA AND SOCIAL IDENTITY ONLINE
  • Jiyajiya, Peter Mayeso
    Extending The Listening Zones: Towards A Radical Ecolinguistic Approach In African Localities
  • Smith, Cassidy
    The Impact of Content Creator Decision-Making on Victim Representation in User-Generated True Crime

Teaching

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2021

Happer, C. , Storer, T. , Hoskins, A. and Alkharashi, A. (2021) Public trust and understanding of online content moderation, and its impacts on public discourse. [Data Collection]

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Dr Catherine Happer, University of Glasgow Media Group

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