In T2 of 2025 I am teaching the second half of POLS 404 Media, Politics and Campaigns (postgraduate course, 400-level, co-taught with Jack Vowles).

This course looks at the interrelations of media, communication and politics, especially as they interact in political campaigns and elections. As well as exploring modern campaigns the course covers several related topics and themes, each of which influence the political communication environment. Topics include: the evolution and practices of modern party communication (strategy, marketing, media management), election campaigns, the shifting news media environment and journalist-politician relations, platform politics and social media, popular culture and populist politics, media effects and influences, comparative political and media systems, interest groups and the policy process, the ‘crisis’ of participation and democracy.

For more information on POLS 404 please see here.

Please note that in T1 of 2026 I will not be teaching any courses at Victoria University, because I will be on research leave overseas at the Institute for Political Science of the University of Mainz in Germany from mid-December 2025 to the end of March 2026 and at the Alan Turing Institute in London, UK from April 2026 until the end of June 2026.