Dr Max Mauro
- Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
- Weymouth House W422, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
Max is programme leader of the MA Media and Communication. Before returning to university to complete a PhD, he worked for twelve years as a journalist, writer and researcher in Italy, Germany and Venezuela. In 2014, he was awarded a FIFA Research Scholarship to conduct a study on migrant youth, football and belonging, which led to the publication of the book “The Balotelli Generation. Issues of Inclusion and belonging in Italian football and society”. In 2019, he completed a follow up to his PhD ethnographic research carried out in Dublin, Ireland, and published the book “Youth sport, migration and culture. Two football teams and the changing face of Ireland”. His work has also been published in several journals, including Media, Culture and Society, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Communication and Sport, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Max's research interests encompass media and representation, the sporting spectacle and processes of racialisation; media cultures, migration and belonging...
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).
Parallel to his academic work, he has published in Italian two cycling travel books (about a solo cycling trip through Patagonia, and about Berlin, the German capital) and a journalistic investigation on migration to and from Italy.
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