About us

Welcome from the Head

Welcome to the website of the School of International Communications. We are affiliated to the Department of Culture, Media and Visual Studies at the Nottingham campus. Understanding how to communicate, learn, express yourself and do business on global digital media platforms with people from all over the world and in many different languages is at the core of our teaching programmes.

Our BA (Hons) in International Communications Studies is a provincial level accredited degree which includes a dedicated programme of study for a European or East Asian language. Its sister programme, BA (Hons) in International Communications Studies with Chinese, has proved successful in attracting high quality international students to our school. Both programmes provide students with an opportunity to exchange to another Nottingham University campus or an external international university in their third year of study.

We run MA programmes in International Communications Studies and one of the most successful PhD programmes in the university. We have been graduating students for more than ten years and our alumni have continued their education in some of the world’s leading universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, as well as working for companies like Google, TikTok, Huawei, and Alibaba.

Dr Filippo Gilardi

Head of the School of International Communications

Featured Academic

Research has never been just a career for me, rather it is a passion that drives me. I have mostly researched in five key areas including journalism and communications, artificial intelligence and digital transformations in news media, media and information literacy, digital divide and digital inclusion, and sustainable development. To date, I have contributed over 35 peer reviewed journal articles, 21 book chapters, 5 edited books and three special journal issues. My published research work has mostly covered the countries in the Global South including Pakistan, India, China, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Namibia. My transnational research continues to grow as currently I am working on many international publication projects, which cover topics including journalism and communications, digital divide, Artificial Intelligence and digital innovation, sustainability and sustainable development. The current list of my guest-edited special Issues is diverse in terms of topics and they shall be published by Routledge’s Journalism Practice, Intellect’s Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, Taylor & Francis’s Media Asia and Sage’s Emerging Media.

Dr Sadia Jamil
Assistant Professor