Dr Shelley Thompson - Bournemouth University Staff Profile Pages

Biography
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Biography

Shelley Thompson is the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Student Experience. She was previously Deputy Dean of the Business School and Head of the Department of Communication and Journalism in the Faculty of Media and Communication. She is a science journalism scholar, specialising in the reporting of emerging and controversial science. Her current research considers the under-representation of women's voices in news debates about science, following her intervention at the UN Conference on Women and Girls in Science and the Role of the Media in February 2017. Shelley is a former US journalist who worked at a variety of publications covering finance and securities regulation in New York City to politics, education, crime, and health at the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Eagle-Tribune in its New Hampshire bureau. While working at the Eagle-Tribune and its sister publication the Derry News, she received several awards for her reporting, including investigative reporting awards and a First Amendment award for a series on a secret government payment to a public employee leaving his job... Shelley teaches on a variety of degrees including the Politics, Multimedia Journalism, and Communications and Media. She welcomes the opportunity to supervise and examine PhDs and postdoctoral researchers, especially in areas of science journalism (including gendered representations of science and science expertise) and broader areas of journalism studies and political communication. She is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:

Quality education

"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"

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Gender equality

"Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls"

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Journal Articles

Brockinton, A., Salnitri, M., Kooner-Evans, F., McAlaney, J., Thompson, S., 2025. An exploratory study on the human component using a cultural model to define open research topics for secure socio-technical systems. Technology in Society, 83.
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Brockinton, A., Hirst, S., Wang, R., McAlaney, J., Thompson, S., 2023. Corrigendum: Utilising online eye-tracking to discern the impacts of cultural backgrounds on fake and real news decision-making(Front. Psychol., (2022), 13, (999780), 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.999780). Frontiers in Psychology, 14.
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Brockinton, A., Hirst, S., Wang, R., McAlaney, J., Thompson, S., 2022. Utilising online eye-tracking to discern the impacts of cultural backgrounds on fake and real news decision-making. Frontiers in Psychology, 13.
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Tatum, A., Thompson, S., Yates, C., 2022. Perceptions of women as political leaders at a time of crisis: a psychosocial study. Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 15 (3), 148-166.
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Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Hemingway, A., Sudbury, S., Quinney, A., Hutchings, M., Esteves, L., Thompson, S., Jacey, H., Diaz, A., Bradley, P., Hall, J., Board, M., Feigenbaum, A., Brown, L., Heaslip, V., Norton, L., 2020. Donning the “slow professor”: A feminist action research project. Radical Teacher, 116, 55-65.
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Scullion, R., Thompson, S., 2015. Introduction to the Special Issue on Voice and Representation of Marginal Groups. Journal of Promotional Communications, 3 (2), 258-260.
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Smith, L.C., Thompson, S., 2015. Tuning out or Tuned Out? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Youth Political Participation in Britain. Journal of Promotional Communications, 3 (2), 295-301.
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Thompson, S., 2010. Book Review: Human Cloning in the Media: from science fiction to science practice. JOURNALISM STUDIES, 11 (1), 135-136.
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Thompson, S., 2010. Book Review: Journalism, Science and Society: science communication between news and public relations. JOURNALISM STUDIES, 11 (1), 136-138.
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Chapters

Lilleker, D.G., Thompson, S., 2021. PROTECTING THE CITIZEN: POLITICAL JOURNALISTS AS GATEKEEPERS IN THE DIGITAL AGE. Routledge Companion to Political Journalism. 293-301.
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Thompson, S., Lilleker, D.G., 2019. Containing the digital revolution: political science in the United Kingdom. In: Kneuer, M., Milner, H., eds. Digitalization and Political Science. Barbara Budrich Publishers.
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Thompson, S., Stepien, H., 2019. Reporting Controversial Science. In: Luce, A., eds. Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics. London: Routledge.
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Thompson, S., 2013. The Future of Newspapers in a Digital Age. In: Fowler-Watt, K., Allan, S., eds. Journalism: New Challenges. Poole, England: Centre for Journalism and Communications Research, Bournemouth University, 19-34.
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Conferences

Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Shiel, C., Hemingway, A., Sudbury, S., Quinney, C., Esteves, L., Thompson, S., Bradley, P., Scammell, J., Hall, J., Board, M., Feigenbaum, A., Brown, L., Diaz, A., Heaslip, V., Hutchings, M., Norton, L., Jacey, H., 2018. ‘Welcome to the Machine!’ Resisting isomorphic, masculinised corporatisation of Higher Education through feminist scholarship. In: DAKAM Gender and Women's Studies Conference 10/11/2018 Istanbul. Yes TBA.
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Thompson, S., 2015. Framing nanotechnology: a longitudinal analysis in two leading newspapers. In: Future of Journalism 10/09/2015 Cardiff.
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Thompson, S., 2014. Whose Nano News? In: Political Studies Association - Media and Politics Group Annual Conference 13/11/2013 Bournemouth University.
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Thompson, S., 2013. Whose Nano News? In: PSA Media and Politics Group Annual Conference 13/11/2013 Bournemouth.
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Thompson, S., 2013. Secondary News Frames of Nanotechnology. In: Media, Communications & Cultural Studies Association 09/01/2013 Derry, Ireland.
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Thompson, S., 2012. Framing Nanotechnology. In: Science & the Media 12/2012 Bournemouth University.
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Thompson, S., 2012. The Wired Generation. In: Engaging the Public: Putting people back in democracy 07/2012 Bournemouth University.
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Thompson, S., 2010. News about nanotechnology: A framing study of The Guardian and The New York Times' reporting since the 1980s. In: Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association - Postgraduate Network Annual Conference 08/06/2010 Glasgow University.
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Thompson, S., 2009. News about nanotechnology: A conceptual paper. In: Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association - Postgraduate Network 08/07/2009 Bangor University.
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Thompson, S., Allan, S., 2009. Science Journalism on the Internet. In: Science & the Public 04/06/2009 Brighton University.
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Reports

Yates, C., Thompson, S., 2017. The Nasty Politics of Risk, Gender and the Emotional Body in the US Presidential Election.. Bournemouth: Bournemouth University. Available from: http://www.electionanalysis2016.us/ [Accessed 15/11/2017].
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Yates, C., Thompson, S., 2017. Maybot, Mummy or Iron Lady? Loving and loathing Theresa May. UK: Bournemouth University. Available from: http://www.electionanalysis.uk/uk-election-analysis-2017/section-8-personality-politics-and-popular-culture/maybot-mummy-or-iron-lady-loving-and-loathing-theresa-may/ [Accessed 15/06/2017].
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Hodges, C.E.M., Jackson, D., Scullion, R., Thompson, S., Molesworth, M., 2014. Tracking changes in everyday experiences of disability and disability sport within the context of the 2012 London Paralympics.. Bournemouth: CMC Publishing, Bournemouth University. Available from: http://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/cmc/files/2014/10/BU-2012-London-Paralympics.pdf [Accessed 29/09/2014].
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Jackson, D., Thompson, S., Thorsen, E., 2013. Intelligent news for an intelligent public. Work Research.
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Thompson, S., Tayman, A., Molesworth, M., Jackson, D., Watkins, R., 2012. Tracking changes in everyday experiences of disability and disabled sport in the context of Channel 4’s coverage of the 2012 Paralympics. Wave Two.
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Hodges, C., Thompson, S., Molesworth, M., Scullion, R., 2011. Tracking changes in everyday experiences of disability and disabled sport in the context of Channel 4's coverage of the 2012 Paralympics, Wave One. Work Research.
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Internet Publications

Thompson, S., 2018. Nobel Prize should be just the start of making women scientists more visible. The Conversation. Available from: https://theconversation.com/nobel-prize-should-be-just-the-start-of-making-women-scientists-more-visible-104606 [Accessed 11/10/2018].
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Theses

Thompson, S., 2011. News about nanotechnology: a longitudinal framing analysis of newspaper reporting on nanotechnology. Bournemouth University, Media School.
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PhD Students

PhD Students

Thomas Stoeckle, 2024. Motivation, metaphor and manipulation: the framing of public debates and the shaping of public responses through leaders’ speeches during the evolving COVID-19 pandemic
Alison Smith
Hilary Stepien. Combatting mental health stigma - the communicative constitution of stigma and its effects, and lessons for subsequent persuasive message design
Amy Tatum
Thomas Stoeckle

Grants

Grants

Reaching Across the Pond (Bournemouth University - Fusion Fund, 03 Sep 2012). Awarded
MeCCSA - Postgraduate Network Conference (ADM-HEA, 02 Aug 2010). Awarded

Qualifications
Memberships

Qualifications

PGCE in Education Practice (Bournemouth University, 2015)
Fellow of The Higher Education Academy in Education Practice (The Higher Education Academy, 2015)
PhD in Journalism (Bournemouth University, 2012)
MA in Journalism Studies (Cardiff University, 2009)
BA (Hons) in Journalism (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, 2000)

Memberships

Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), Member, https://www.meccsa.org.uk/
AACSB, Member,

Website Links
External Media & Press

Website Links

https://research.bournemouth.ac.uk/centre/politics-and-media-group/

External Media and Press

Nobel Prize should be just the start of making women scientists more visibl, The Conversation, 11 Oct 2018. https://theconversation.com/nobel-prize-should-be-just-the-start-of-making-women-scientists-more-visible-104606