Sabina Mihelj#
| Membership Number: | 7189 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/sabina-mihelj |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8557-2504 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis, Communication and Media Department, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, UK
- 2013 - 2016 Reader in Media and Cultural Analysis, Communication and Media Department, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, UK
- 2011 - 2013 Senior Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture, Communication and Media Department, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, UK
- 2004 - 2011 Lecturer in Media, Communication and Culture, Communication and Media Department, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, UK
- 2003 - 2004 Assistant Professor in Sociology of Culture, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
- 1999 - 2004 Doctoral Researcher & Research Assistant, Ljubljana Graduate School of Humanities
Fields of Scholarship
- Media, politics and culture
- Pandemic communication
- Disinformation
- Media, nations and nationalism
- Socialist television
- Media and illiberalism
- Cold War media
- Media and populism
Honours and Awards
- 2025 shortlisted for The Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award for The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies (Palgrave, 2024)
- 2023 European Journal of Communication Best Article Prize (2024) for ‘The ambivalences of visibility: News consumption and public attitudes to same-sex relationships in the context of illiberalism’, European Journal of Communication, 38(6), 571-590.
- 2021 Nations and Nationalism Best Article Prize (2022) for ‘Digital Nationalism: Understanding the Role of Digital Media in the Rise of “New” Nationalism’, Nations and Nationalism, 27(2): 331-346
- 2018 British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Monograph Honorable Mention, shortlisted for The Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award for From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2018)
- 2023 - 2026 Co-I, AHRC, (Mis)Translating Deceit: Disinformation and as Translingual, Discursive Dynamic (with S. Hutchings as PI, and V. Tolz, and N. Sadler as Co-Is)
- 2022 - 2024 Lead PI, ESRC/Trans-Atlantic Partnership, Pandemic Communication in Times of Populism: Building Resilient media and Ensuring effective Pandemic Communication in Divided Societies (with V. Stetka, D. Hallin, M. Laruelle, B. Klimkiewicz, D. Rothberg as Co-Is)
- 2019 - 2022 Co-I, ESRC, The Illiberal Turn: News Consumption, Democracy and Polarization in Eastern Europe (with V. Stetka)
- 2013 - 2016 PI, The Leverhulme Trust, Screening Socialism: Popular Television and Everyday Life in Socialist Eastern Europe
- 2009 - 2010 Co-I, AHRC, Fitna, the Video Battle: How YouTube Enables the Young to Perform their Religious and Public Identities (with L. Van Zoonen), £81,321.
- 2005 - 2006 Co-I, ESRC, The EU Constitution: National or Transnational Debates on a Supranational issue (with J. Downey), £46,000k
